My Arms Are Longer Now – comedy stealth game sends lawlessness into new territory
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Key context: <p>Developers who met through Australia’s improv scene and publishers of comedic party games have united for this slithering challenge in which you play as one extended limb</p><p>Most stealth games cast you as a spy, an assassin or a master thief. My Arms Are Longer Now dispenses with most of the criminal person, to send in just one spectacularly badly behaved limb. It slithers across floors, winds around furniture, steals things and slaps anyone within reach – finally answering the question nobody asked: what if your own arm turned to crime?</p><p>As Toot Games co-founder Matthew Jackson puts it: “You are the bad thing that happens to the people.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/24/my-arms-are-longer-now-comedy-stealth-game-preview">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
Developers who met through Australia’s improv scene and publishers of comedic party games have united for this slithering challenge in which you play as one extended limbMost stealth games cast you as a spy, an assassin or a master thief. My Arms Are Longer Now dispenses with most of the criminal person, to send in just one spectacularly badly behaved limb. It slithers across floors, winds around furniture, steals things and slaps anyone within reach – finally answering the question nobody asked: what if your own arm turned to crime?As Toot Games co-founder Matthew Jackson puts it: “You are the bad thing that happens to the people.” Continue reading...
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