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‘Trover Saves The Universe’ And ‘Five Nights Freddy’s’ Are Scary Funny on PlayStation VR

Arguably more frightening than Five Nights at Freddy’s though is the idea of Justin Roiland’s id unleashed. Rick and Morty gives us frequent glimpses into the animator/voice actor’s bonkers takes on comedy science-fiction. But Trover Saves The Universe, from Roiland’s VR dev team Squanch Games, is pure Roiland shot straight into our eyeballs.

The set-up is like something from Channel 101 or a Rick and Morty Interdimensional Cable episode, a kind of drunk and lazy improv sketch only half committed to. Because the player is stuck in a chair holding a normal DualShock 4, they play as an alien stuck in a chair called a “Chairorpian.” Most of the action is handled indirectly by Trover, a rebel who actually walks around wielding a sword looking for new babies to stick into his eye sockets.

Really the appeal is just hearing Roiland riff in a universe that isn’t Rick and Morty but might as well be, albeit just with the insane profanity and gross alien stuff without added human emotional depth. The art style is basically the same, just translated to 3D like the actual Rick and Morty VR game. It’s very funny and in your face, literally.

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