Inkulinati forces us to confront one of humanity’s great universal concerns, demanding answers to a question that’s tormented civilisations for millennia: are farts funny? Polish developer Yaza Games certainly thinks so, packing its turn-based strategy roguelite with flatulent units that reveal their posteriors to opponents, then rasp out clouds of noxious gas.
If you think that sounds terribly puerile, however, fart gags are at least appropriate to its setting. The soldiers you command, you see, are faithful reproductions of medieval ‘marginalia’ bizarre sketches penned around the edges of fine manuscripts - which often indulged base humour that thumbed its nose at tradition and hierarchy, depicting snails as deadly predators, for instance, and brave knights as anthropomorphised rabbits. With that in mind, a fart in may be a cheap joke, but such low-brow hijinks equally aim at reducing prince and pauper to the same level.
