A Deeper Dive Into Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099

Developer: Fictiorama Studios Publisher: Joystick Ventures Released: May 25th, 2023 Price: $15 USD The comeback of a popular series that many have forgotten about over the years. Do Not Feed the Monkeys, the precursor, was an original game. It had its appeal and was quite tough to manage due to the juggling of multiple resources. Finances, conversations, hunger, sleep, and health, to name a few. It was incredibly difficult when you were trying to focus on everything at once and getting very little done. It seems the latest take on this series seems to be slower paced. Making things more manageable, but also a little more boring.

PLAY IT OR SKIP IT? Play it, especially if you like resource management and unconventional puzzle solving. Like its predecessor, Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 lets players watch unsuspecting strangers and snoop on their lives. While the original Do Not Feed The Monkeys was set in a world that resembled the present day, 2099 takes things into the future, making way for some truly bizarre scenarios. While I was free to sit back and watch events as they played out, I preferred to take a more active role in the lives of the people I was spying on, collecting clues from their videos and scouring the internet for more information. Sometimes I made things better, and sometimes I made things much, much worse, but I always had a great time.