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Fat Head

Fat Head

Arcade

Overview

Fat Head presents a bizarre, conceptually strange platforming experience that leaves players bewildered and frustrated rather than entertained. The game’s core premise – controlling a character resembling an MSN Messenger emoji who decontaminates toxic waste barrels by jumping on them while dodging "Goonies" – devolves into a confusing mess of disjointed mechanics. Early impressions reveal a fundamentally broken movement system, incoherent design choices, and a complete absence of meaningful context for its surreal elements. While undeniably quirky, this novelty fails to compensate for the overwhelming gameplay deficiencies that define the experience.

Frustrating Mechanics and Broken Movement

The most crippling flaw lies in Fat Head’s movement limitations. Players can only jump between barrels, unable to walk or traverse environments conventionally. This instantly creates clunky, unintuitive navigation where precision platforming feels impossible. Jumping lacks weight or feedback, turning basic actions into aggravating chores. The "decontamination" mechanic itself offers no satisfaction – barrels vanish with minimal visual feedback, reducing objectives to repetitive, unrewarding tasks.

Compounding this is the baffling egg-collection system. Collecting eggs from Goonies enlarges Fat Head’s head, eventually triggering a float mechanic that kills enemies. Yet these systems feel arbitrary, disconnected from the decontamination goal, and unexplained by the game. Death respawns players in a jarring "Head Fixing Chamber," further emphasizing the disjointed design. As one player bluntly notes:

You aren’t able to walk, only jump, and have to jump from cylinder to cylinder emptying them out.

Zero

Meaningless Quirkiness and Technical Shortcomings

Fat Head’s attempts at surrealism backfire spectacularly. The Goonies – described as "happy-but-deadly" entities – lack visual personality or threatening presence, while Fat Head’s emoji-like design feels like an afterthought. This strangeness isn’t charming; it’s confusing and devoid of narrative or thematic purpose. The "floating" mechanic epitomizes this – a bizarre power-up with no clear rules or strategic value that disrupts gameplay flow.

Visually, the game is functional but utterly forgettable. Environments are sparse and repetitive, with barrels and platforms lacking detail or visual variety. Sound design fares worse: effects exist but feel randomly assigned, with no connection to on-screen actions or world-building. As one reviewer observes:

The graphics are nothing to write home about and while the sound effects don’t necessarily fall into the bad category, they have no context within the game.

Moshboy

Verdict

Bizarre broken platformer with incoherent frustrating mechanics

STRENGTHS

15%
Quirky Concept30%

WEAKNESSES

85%
Broken Movement95%
Incoherent Design90%
Lack of Engagement85%
Weak Presentation70%

Community Reviews

2 reviews
Moshboy
Moshboy
Trusted

If you have been waiting with baited breath for a quirky, weird freeware game to come out of nowhere and take your breath away... you've downloaded the wrong game. It's definitely quirky and weird but it sure ain't good. You play a guy called 'Fat Head,' whose mission is to decontaminate barrels of waste by jumping on them and avoiding 'Goonies.' If it sounds like it doesn't make one bit of sense then you'd be absolutely right. To make things even weirder, every once in a while a Goonie lays an egg. If you pick up the egg, your head grows one size bigger. When the 'Fat Head Bar' (up in the top right hand corner of the screen) fills up, then you begin to float to the top of the screen. Any Goonies in your way will be killed. And weirder still, when you get killed - you get sent to the 'Head Fixing Chamber' and then transported back to the starting point on the level. The game play primarily consists of jumping from barrel to barrel, since for some reason you are unable to move around in the usual manner. The graphics are nothing to write home about and while the sound effects don't necessarily fall into the bad category, they have no context within the game. In short, this game is a mess so it would be well advised to steer clear, unless of course your a fan of weird, quirky games that make no sense and have pretty poor game play. And the chances of that are pretty slim.

Zero
Zero
Trusted

You are a strange little man called Fat Head who actually looks like one of those msn smilie things. This is a strange little platform game where Fat Head must decontaminate these cylinders of Toxic Waste. Apparently his only defense from the “happy-but-deadly Goonies” is his Fat Head. Don’t ask me how because I have no idea. This game is not nice at all. You aren’t able to walk, only jump, and have to jump from cylinder to cylinder empting them out. If there ever was a game that didn’t deserve a good rating, its Fat Head.

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