You thought you had it all over iOS users, not for what your Android device had, but mostly for what it didn't, namely, QWOP, one of Bennett Foddy's most irritating games ever to grace the inter webs. The borderline impossible game made its way onto iOS not long ago, but now gamers can grab the game from Google Play for $1, despite being worth infinitely more in sure aggravation dollars and reaction vids.
We learned back in February that QWOP was headed towards the Droid market, and apparently it took Noodlecake Studios this long to figure out how to make the game as difficult as its original Flash and iOS counterpart, no doubt made more confounded by touch screen controls. The game could be considered closer to some sort of experimentation than an actual game. Half the fun comes from watching people trying to conquer it than actual play it.
This isn't Foddy and company's first time gracing Android devices. Foddy recently made his equally ludicrous Get On Top available on the Android run Ouya.
If you've yet to play this tortorous game, it's a fairly easy find on the net, as well as free.
Control of the game sounds simple enough, with each of the keys controlling the thighs and calves of an Olympic sprinter. It's only when you actually attempt to control your character that you discover just how difficult the game is, and that said sprinter may as well be part of the Special Olympics. It was this very difficulty helped propel the game into pop culture, earning millions of players, as well as follow up games with similarly hair pulling controls: CLOP, GIRP, to name a few.
It's annoying enough trying to get the sprinter more than a few feet across the track without falling into a heap on a proper computer keyboard, but I can't even imagine doing the same on a tiny touch screen.
You may consider yourself a gamer with hardcore skills, but you don't know nothin' 'bout 'nothin 'til you've tried QWOP.
