Trolling people is an art form, and a lot of people just don’t have the talent or the drive it takes to really do it well. So when you find someone who is putting real skill and effort into rage-baiting people, you have to respect the lengths they go to for a dream and a love of the game. Fever Meme, a game by Aimbok, came out back in July but is having a viral moment on social media as more streamers stumble on the rage game that calls itself a cross between The Stanley Parable and Undertale. I don’t think I have the patience for its antics, but I will watch people fall for its cheeky game design parody all day.
As the name implies, Fever Meme is seemingly built to create viral moments as streamers fall for its many, many tricks. It has a mean narrator who makes fun of you when you die and text commentary that shows up on the walls of its world to chide you for misunderstanding the most simple game design concepts, and it’s constantly switching things up on you so you run headfirst into its many spike pits, laser walls, and puzzles made of half-truths.
These traps and jokes at the players’ expense are funny, but you also have to respect how Fever Meme predicts player behavior so well that it’s able to pull off its best moments. It moves a goal to the opposite end of a room and puts up a wall of text reminding players that jumping into a pit of spikes and respawning would be faster than walking all the way back. Then, when they jump down, it extends the fall to a comical length, one that likely exceeds the time it would have taken to just walk to the goal. This is just one of many instances of Fever Meme playing around with the behaviors and shortcuts gamers have learned over the years, and it’s hilarious to watch people fall for them time and time again.
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You, too, can fall for these tricks by playing Fever Meme yourself on Steam.
