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After a deal with Death, Samuel must survive a day by manually controlling every breath, blink, step, and task.
Released 14 Oct 2016
Manually Breathe and Blink
Drive Stick Shift
Split Samuel’s Controls
Wealthy, handsome, and... dead? Samuel strikes a deal with Death for one last shot at life, but only if he can survive a day doing everything manually. Blink, breathe, walk, and work - Guide Sam in this darkly humorous and brutally difficult adventure!
Developed by Perfectly Paranormal · Published by Curve Games
After dying, Samuel makes a deal with Death for another chance at life: he must make it through the next 24 hours while controlling his body manually.
Guide Samuel through daily routines and unexpected situations by separately inputting actions such as breathing, blinking, walking, talking, and handling objects. His day includes getting ready, driving to work, and taking on tasks at his job.
The story unfolds across chapters, with additional Speedrun and Challenge modes for replaying chapter segments. Play alone or in local co-op, where two players share control of Samuel’s body.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its unusual body-by-body controls, which make ordinary actions funny and chaotic, and appreciate the dialogue, voice acting, and offbeat story. Some also enjoy coordinating in local co-op. Other reviews find the repeated inputs frustrating or tedious, and the humor does not work for everyone; many describe the story as short.
Manual Samuel is a hilarious, hand-drawn adventure game with a wild twist. After making a deal with Death, our hero, the spoiled rich-kid Samuel, must survive for 24 hours controlling his entire body manually.
From breathing and blinking to driving and working, all these tasks will fall to you. It won’t be easy, with Death himself tagging along for the ride, you might be in some very deep feces!
- Overhauled the game to fix a number of gameplay bugs and introduce a number of quality of life improvements
- Visual updates, revamped character animations, new and improved audio effects, updated controller support
- Added Simplified and Traditional Chinese subtitles - read feces in up to 12 languages
- 8 new achievements to discover and unlock!
Using your keyboard or controller, you’ll have to manually breathe, blink, drink, walk, talk and more — one clumsy input at a time. Can you keep Samuel alive, or will he flop his way back to the afterlife?
From getting dressed, driving to work and (checks notes…) fighting robots? - Help Samuel navigate his day to ensure he returns to his lavish life and girlfriend!
Looking to lose friends or break up with your significant other? Then this mode is perfect for you!
- Unique, hand-drawn 2D art and animation brings the world of Manual Samuel to life in glorious high resolution!
- Five in-game comics exploring the backstory of Manual Samuel's characters
- Master the brutal 'Speedrun' and 'Challenge' modes across each chapter
- Scintillating soundtrack by Sondre Jensen and Ozan Drøsdal
- Over 600 lines of dialogue expertly executed by our eloquent voice actors
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 36 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Content notices |
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| Website | Official website |
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