It's been a long time since a game came along that put this much effort into its bathrooms. Working sinks and flush mechanisms, yes—standard fare. We've taken those for granted since 1998, but GZDoom FPS Selaco goes the extra mile: out of its dispensers come absurdly well-drawn and animated toilet paper sprites.
Next to its sinks are bottles of toilet cleaner, and yes, both can be flushed down the cistern. Flushing the cleaner even makes the toilet explode. It goes without saying, then, that this is GOTY material.
That same granular detail and interactivity is all around you in Selaco, a shooter that just entered early access on Steam and whose retro game engine and graphics might initially trick you into sizing it up as mere nostalgia. Poke about in its gore-strewn corridors though, and you find some formidable level design to back up the surface-level flashiness. You're ACE Security captain Dawn, fighting your way through the titular underground security facility that seems to be constantly exploding, and where gun-toting invaders roam.
As you blast and knee-slide your way through corridors and F.E.A.
R.-like offices, you pick up data logs that begin to tell a deeper story of Selaco's demise, and of the personal lives of its staffers. A classic bit of '90s environmental storytelling that reminds you that you're not playing a run-and-gun.
Don't mistake it for an immersive sim either though, just because there are keypads and data logs. I tried entering 0451 into one of t.