Humans vs Tigers

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1

Game Company Bad Behavior Profile Page: Midnight Works

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Review:

Humans vs Tigers is an Arcade-style game released in 2022 on PC and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2023. This game has players collecting humans from cages along a linear path while avoiding traps, with the goal being to have as many humans in your party as possible left alive by the time you reach the giant neon tiger at the end of the path.

One can’t help but feel like this is a game created by mashing different purchased assets together regardless of how well they actually work together. The humans are referred to as “hunters”, but look like little more than blocky faceless unarmed figures wearing shorts and tee shirts, there’s no context or explanation given for why they’re in cages or what the traps are, no explanation for why the tiger is neon-colored, and no explanation for why this is all backed by generic mambo music. It all is extremely unimpressive, but doesn’t even fit together cohesively.

It is little surprise then that the gameplay doesn’t work well either. Touching a cage releases another human to control as a part of the group, but there’s no way to control them individually, and since you’re avoiding obstacles it seems your only real strategy here is to try to touch the cages at a point where you can more easily bunch your humans together, generally by smashing the group together against the sides of the corridor to compact them into a smaller group.

Upon doing this, you have to make your way through various traps, and the only real challenge here seems to be trying to judge where your humans are in relation to the traps, since the single camera angle doesn’t always make that clear. Get enough humans safely to the end of each level to meet a threshold and you win and move on to the next level that’s seemingly-randomly pieced together without any real sense of progression. There’s not even a timer urging you to get through these obstacle courses quickly – you can take as much time as you need.

There’s just nothing of value going on here. The graphics are bad and don’t work well together, the gameplay is brain-dead and repetitive, the mambo music seems wildly out of place… I struggle to think of one thing to compliment here. I guess the neon tiger design looks kinda’ cool? Yeah, just trust me on this: do not get this game. It is a pointless experience all-around.

tl;dr – Humans vs Tigers is an Arcade-style game that has you collecting humans from cages along a linear path while avoiding traps, aiming to have enough humans still alive to take on a giant neon tiger at the end of the path. Unfortunately, the graphics are terrible, everything seems pieced together in a way that makes little sense, and the gameplay is boring, repetitive, and just overall pointless. Avoid it.

Grade: D-

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