In Do Not Feed the Monkeys, gamers must make tough moral choices as they unravel secrets about their targets and uncover hidden truths about themselves along the way. You’ll have to manage your resources carefully to make sure all parties involved are satisfied.
As a gamer, you will explore the lives of various characters by spying on them with your surveillance cameras and making decisions based on what you find. But by adding in all kinds of extra things, it feels like the game tries its hardest to get in its own way.Īlawar Premium provided us with a Do Not Feed The Monkeys Switch code for review purposes.Do Not Feed the Monkeys is an adventure game that puts you in control of a mysterious surveillance agency. Is that enough to make Do Not Feed The Monkeys a bad game? Of course not - with a premise this good, it’s hard to mess it up. Rather than being a very good, very tense satire about dystopia and voyeurism and the modern world, it kind of muddies its message with a lot of unnecessary stuff. It certainly adds to the challenge, but I don’t think it does so in a positive way. In addition to doing your job, you also have to take care of yourself - which means balancing eating, going to your other work, sleeping, odd jobs for neighbours, and basically doing lots and lots of resource management. Where the game falls apart a little is that it adds a survival element on top of all that. Truthfully, as someone who prefers games that are a little more relaxed, I found it a little too tense for my liking, but still: it’s hard to deny it’s addictive. It’s nerve-wracking in a way you wouldn’t necessarily expect a game with that premise to be. That part of Do Not Feed The Monkeys is good. The better you do, the more cameras you have to watch, until it becomes a tense game of juggling all these different peep shows as you frantically go back and forth, trying not to miss anything. The gist of it is simple: you’re part of some secret voyeuristic club that has to watch cameras and piece together what’s happening in people’s lives.
Do Not Feed The Monkeys feels like a great example of overthinking (and overstuffing) a premise until you miss what made it interesting and worthwhile in the first place.
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