A new game titled Whatever puts players in charge of a cargo ship sailing down the Suez Canal in reference to the famous canal blocking.
The meme of the event sprung up around March when a real cargo-ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, taking days to dislodge and garnering media and internet attention. The boat was even added to Microsoft Flight Simulator as a mod.
Now, in Whatever, players are tasked with piloting a 200,000-tonne ship through a canal of varying width, in a tongue-in-cheek game that aims to show just how hard the job really is.
The Steam page reads: “You will cry and finally realise how amazing every cargo ship’s captain is because it is extremely hard to pilot that !$@%!$# 200,000-tonne cargo ship with their extreme inertia through the canal!”
The game will enter Early Access on Steam by September 7, with additional features being added post-launch. The release date currently reads “when the ship is ready”. Whatever contains nine levels and two ‘bosses’, along with “wind gut, whirlpool, and UFO”.
