ASMR Slicing

Genre: Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

ASMR Slicing, released in 2020 on mobile devices and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2023, is a game where you are slicing various objects, I suppose with the idea that the act of doing so is intended to be sensually or aesthetically-pleasing.

Okay, I’ll be honest, I never got into the whole ASMR craze that spread around YouTube in recent years, but I’m dubious that this qualifies as anything people are likely to find pleasing in that way. While it is certainly interesting to see parts of the 3D objects getting sliced off, all of the objects seem to have a consistent texture that robs them of any sort of tangibility here, making a piece of cake, a piece of sushi, and a rubber ducky all slice as if they’re made of the same material.

They all produce the same sound when being cut, too, which is a sorta’ sandpapery sound that I did not find at all pleasing. Apart from this and a brief victory fanfare, you’re not going to get much else in the way of sound in this game, as there is no music here.

And when it comes to the gameplay… honestly, it’s hard to say there even is gameplay here. The game does offer challenges, but they’re so easily-completed that it hardly feels like a challenge at all. These range from discovering figures hidden within the object (easy, just cut small slices), to cutting a specific weight off the object (easy, just cut small slices), to cutting the correct number of pieces… is this game intended for babies? Is that what this is? I honestly can’t tell.

Whether ASMR Slicing is or isn’t intended for young children, it’s not as aesthetically pleasing as the title makes it seem, it’s not in any way educational, there’s no challenge, and it won’t take long before you’ll get bored of this dumb novelty of a game and move on to something with substance. Don’t bother with this… whatever this is.

tl;dr – ASMR Slicing is an odd game where players chop pieces off of objects. Unfortunately, despite what the game’s title implies, there’s little enjoyment to be had in doing so, and the challenge is pretty much nonexistent. I’m not sure who this game is for, but I think they’re better off saving their money for something else.

Grade: D-

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