$9.99Ben and Ed A zombie's deadly obstacle run
Race through absurd, gory courses as a zombie who can lose limbs and keep going, throwing your head across gaps when legs are no longer an option.
Is Ben and Ed worth it?
Ben and Ed is worth it if…
- you enjoy difficult platformers where dying is funny and retrying is the point
- you like dark humor and absurd worlds that turn surprisingly sad by the end
- you want a chaotic multiplayer game to ruin friendships over
- you have fond memories of watching ragdoll physics mayhem and want to play it yourself
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Losing limbs is part of the plan
Most platformers end the run when you get hit. Here a blade takes an arm and you keep going. Lose a leg or two and you crawl, slower but still moving. And when the body is more trouble than it is worth, Ed can take off his own head, throw it across a gap or through a narrow passage, and roll it to the goal while the torso waits behind. You drop into a laser grid, come out the other side as a single rolling skull, and that still counts as progress. Checkpoints let you rebuild, so a mangled run is a second chance, not a restart. The trick is deciding which parts you can afford to lose, and how much of yourself the next jump is worth.
A game show in a wasted world
Rundead is entertainment for a hopeless dystopia, and Hans Showmaster is its rich, ruthless host. He heard rumors of an undead wandering the ruins, saw a ratings opportunity, and abducted Ben to persuade Ed to compete. So you run for the cameras while the audience gets its gore. The courses are colorful and absurd: chicken everywhere, dog food as a hazard, spinning hammers overhead, acid rising fast. The soundtrack is a genuine highlight, catchy enough that it will follow you to bed after an hour of retries. And beneath the slapstick there is a real story about Ed and Ben, the lonely boy who fed a zombie scraps of meat, with an ending that lands harder than a show like this has any right to.
