Chex Quest HD The Cereal Box Shooter, Remade

Versus mode needs two compatible USB controllers, so dig out the spare pad. The whole thing is built for easy, low-stakes sessions: rounds are short, the tone is goofy, and nobody has to be good at shooters to join in. It is the kind of game where the argument is over who gets to play as the pretzel.

Your weapons do not hurt anyone. Zorching devices send Flemoids back to their home dimension, where they vanish with a quack, and the green goop flies in all directions without a drop of blood. You start with a spoon (yes, a spoon), and later find zorchers modelled on the classics: shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, plasma rifle, all given a sci-fi snack-brand makeover. The Flemoids themselves are walking wads of slime with eyes, some of them melee, some of them ranged, none of them scary.

The original Chex Quest shipped on a CD-ROM in cereal boxes in 1996, a family-friendly take on the fast shooters of its day that somehow became a cult favourite. This remake rebuilds those five levels of Bazoik caverns with modern visuals while keeping the retro feel, the hammy dialogue and the original art style.