Figure It Out: The Tantrum Simulator

Genre: Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

Figure It Out: The Tantrum Simulator, released in 2025 on PC and Nintendo Switch, is… honestly, I don’t even know what I would call this type of game. A Puzzle game, maybe? Though its puzzles are so abstract I feel like it’s more appropriate to just call it a Misc. game. As for what this game is about… ugh.

So the premise here is that women are throwing tantrums that are threatening to literally destroy the world, and it’s up to the men around them to appease them to make it stop. This takes the form of a guessing game of sorts where you’re given a hint about what’s upsetting the woman, and must guess which of the comic-style icons relate to that hint.

Or, to put it another way… are you the sort of person who thinks it’s hilarious to crack a joke that when a woman is upset, she must be on her period? Do you believe that sitcoms were at their best when they focused on a nagging wife and a henpecked husband? Are you the sort of person who thinks “women are too emotional”? Then hoo boy, this game just might be for you.

Look, it’s not just that I find this game’s approach to gender conflicts woefully outdated to the point of being offensive, it’s that it’s trying to be funny and its humor falls flat specifically because it trades on tired, outdated stereotypes you’ve heard far too many times by now. “I smell perfume on your shirt!”, “you left a mess in the bathroom!”, “I blame you specifically for the gender pay gap!”… it’s like the sort of material you’d get if you went to a misogynist internet message board and hired the most immature person you could find there to think of what they considered biting satire. Oh, and after each “puzzle”, you have a multiple-choice question whose answer seems to always be “find the most placating response possible”.

Even if you’re the sort of person who thinks I “don’t have a sense of humor” or I’m “being overly sensitive” or I’m “white knighting”, and you think this sort of humor absolutely slays… the gameplay still sucks. You’re given the most abstract of hints to go on, and the icons often aren’t clear what they mean. This makes guessing which three you need into a matter of trial-and-error more often than not, and while the game offers you two ways to narrow down the options, that’s basically just getting the game to play itself for you, which doesn’t do anything to make it actually… you know, fun.

While I have plenty of complaints about Tantrum Simulator, I have to give it credit in one spot: its presentation is actually pretty good. It features old-fashioned comic-style 2D artwork that’s pretty good (even if it’s frequently objectifying), upbeat music that fits the lighthearted tone the game is going for, and often nonsensical voicework with ludicrous voiced babbling noises that were the one thing I actually found amusing, as immature and insulting as they were.

Despite the solid presentation, Tantrum Simulator is a terrible game. It would have been a terrible game decades ago, but it looks like an outdated relic in 2026. Even if you don’t find its take on gender conflicts disgusting, you’ll still find its humor stale and its gameplay pointless. Do not play this.

tl;dr – The Tantrum Simulator is a Puzzle game of sorts, except the puzzles are all in abstract, as you try to guess which cartoony icons correspond with the vague complaint a woman is making to try to appease her. This game’s take on gender conflict is gross, its humor is stale and outdated, and its gameplay is pointless. The presentation here is actually pretty good, but that doesn’t matter when everything else is varying amounts of terrible and outright repulsive.

Grade: F

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