The thing that immediately strikes you about Mushroom Men is just how unnerving it is. Now, we don’t really like mushrooms, and seeing them moving around like grubby, fungal Borrowers is pretty unpleasant. You’re unlikely to have a similar experience, unless you have the same kind of dislike of ’shrooms, but it seems as if the developer has gone all out to make the whole affair as creepy as possible without crossing the line of offensive. A meteor has crashed down to earth and turned fungi, amongst other things, into sentient beings. It also seems to have made much of the local flora and fauna mad, bad and evil.


This is all pretty standard fare for the action adventure genre, but there’s more than enough to differentiate it from everything else out there. The art style, for one, is faintly reminiscent of Fifties B-movies. It’s got a reasonably complex telekinesis mechanic, along the lines of The Force Unleashed, and much of the platforming uses one of Pax the protagonist’s special abilities. So it’s far from boring, but if you’ve got a phobia about mushrooms, this will make your skin crawl.