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Dinosaur Polo Club Shadowdropped a New Game Called RTFM

Dinosaur Polo Club has a new experimental co-op game available called RTFM, as you'll work together with a friend solving puzzles

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  • Dinosaur Polo Club surprise-releases RTFM, a free co-op puzzle game inspired by 80s computer programs.
  • Following the manual is key to success and survival in the game with your partner.
  • Play as Troubleshooter or Terminal Operator, solving puzzles and navigating a mysterious office environment.
  • Experience replayable social sleuthing, creepy tech vibes, and multiple endings based on your teamwork.

Developer and publisher Dinosaur Polo Club, the minds behind Mini Motorways, shadowdropped a brand-new game this week that they're calling RTFM. This is a bite-sized co-op experimental puzzle game in which you and another player will work together to make your way through an old-school 80's computer program tied to your "job." The key to it is the manual, as the game's initials stand for "Read The F@cking Manual," which means not reading it and following the instructions given will lead to failure on both your parts. We have mroe details to the game here with the latest trailer, as you can play it with a friend totally free via itch.io

Dinosaur Polo Club Shadowdropped a New Game Called RTFM
Credit: Dinosaur Polo Club

Don't Forget To Read The Manual Together in RTFM

In RTFM, office terror unveils its hysterical side as two players work together as Troubleshooter and Operator, solving puzzles and staying one step ahead of a hostile ghost in the machine. The brief, replayable experience centers around social sleuthing and puzzle-solving, a bite-sized experience inspired by games such as Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and sci-fi media such as classic creepypastas, The X-Files, Portal, and Control. Reciprocate trust and communication to hold reality itself together!

Crack open the User Manual and read the f*cking thing as the Troubleshooter (protip: print it out to help prevent prying eyes from seeing something they shouldn't), or sit down behind the controls as the Terminal Operator to relay on-screen puzzles to one another. Work together or weave white lies into your teamwork to discover three different endings. Mysterious consequences are threatened by your corporate overlords as the two players must work together without fear of failstates. Decode one another's actions as trust either blossoms or, worse, erodes. While reality defragmentation may sound horrifying, the real horror may be in your ear, pretending to help. Or in getting a negative performance review.

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Gavin SheehanAbout Gavin Sheehan

Gavin is the current Games Editor for Bleeding Cool. He has been a lifelong geek who can chat with you about comics, television, video games, and even pro wrestling. Follow @TheGavinSheehan on Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Bluesky, and Threads for random pictures and musings.
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