Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac Dev's Next Game Is a Bizarre Police Sim

Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac developer Edmund McMillen is making a new game, and it's coming out next week. Called Fingered, it's a police simulator that tasks you with figuring out which suspect is guilty of different crimes.

But although it's described as a "whodunit" police game, it looks like anything but normal. The release trailer is a psychedelic, colorful, almost incoherent video that dares you to pick a suspect based on hearsay and unreliable witnesses. Check out the game's trailer, made by filmmaker and Team Meat collaborator James Id, below.

The Steam description isn't much more help in figuring out what this game actually is. "Guilty! They are all guilty!" it states. "Fingered is a 'whodunit' hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. But everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! Send him to the chair!!!"

McMillen also provides a list of features that makes this game sound even more bizarre. If you buy the game, you can expect "21 levels of confusion, a few billion randomly generated people to finger/murder, barking, loads of secret celebs to murder, find[ing] yourself in the criminal data base, buttons, sounds, and menus."

Fingered costs $1.87 (a reference to the California penal code for homicide), and it will be released on August 18. You can see some screenshots of the game below.