

Party mode is self explanatory, but Date Night is a sort of co-op twist that involves you and a partner going through different activities in order to make a “connection.” Maybe walking you dogs or going bowling or having a picnic. The game lets you pick minigames individually, but the party mode and “Date Night” tend to be the best choices. You can go online to find stranger dick but most of the lure here comes from the local multiplayer, and from that you can either each use individual controllers or split a keyboard or even use one controller for up to 4 people which is its own sort of challenge.

There are different modes within multiplayer as well as different ways to play them. Sometimes it is to use the games gelatin-like physics to knock a soccer ball into a net or partake in a downhill race, but usually the fun comes from butt stuff - just like most normal healthy relationships. In most of the pick-up-and-play style minigames the goal is to either insert yourself in someone elses butt or insert things into your own butt. The odds that you haven’t seen at least some of what Genital Jousting has to offer as a local multiplayer game are pretty small since this was so ubiquitous in the months after its initial early access debut, but just in case you and up to 7 of your friends control a dick with balls attached to it, between the balls is a butthole.

Still, the story as unexpectedly delightful as it is only clocks in around an hour and a half so the real meat here is the multiplayer. The sardonic and dry explanation of John’s day to day challenges is milked for as much humor as possible and leads to some actual moments of laughter, not just internal mirth. John’s journey to finding out that being a shitty self-absorbed person - err, penis - to everyone around him won’t fix his life is helped along by an omnipresent narrator straight out of the Stanley Parable. John, it is safe to say, is a complete fucking dick. John tries to find fulfillment through women, who he mostly views as little more than status objects, through consumerism, which he partakes in mindlessly because owning more stuff will obviously make him more popular, and through performative travel, where he is more concerned with seeming like he is having an experience than actually having an experience. Like the game itself, it revels in its ridiculousness and just leans into it. Considering this is a game about big wiggly dicks it should not be surprising to find out that the story mode’s satire is not particularly subtle, and it is all the better for it. The story mode sees you play as a dick named John who is struggling with anxiety about his upcoming high school reunion thanks to being bullied while he was younger and how, to this point, his life has not played out like he wanted it to. The Mario Party But With Big Wiggly Dicks local multiplayer aspect is still here and is still just as amusing as it was in the first place, but now it also has a surprisingly engaging story mode. While in early access its multiplayer became an easy go-to for generic Youtubers to take a break from screaming shitty racist jokes so they can instead scream shitty sex jokes for the benefit of the giant lowest common denominator that is their profitable audience because, I mean, its about big wiggly dicks and dicks equal hits.

Genital Jousting was in early access - emphasis on the access (because consensual butt sex) - for over a year and gets to be one of the rare games that not only got released from early access but actually added and improved things before its final version.
