If you love Monty Python, you’ll adore this hilarious new game

I was raised on British comedy. It was one of the few things my father and I both agreed on, so I spent plenty of nights watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Mr. Bean. Shows like that became formative, as I grew a love for physical comedy and ridiculous gags by studying silly walks. To an outsider, it all might just look like random jokes that don’t make much sense, but there’s an art for absurdity that the British comedy scene nailed.

I found that spirit once again in Thank Goodness You’re Here! Developed by Coal Supper, a small studio based out of Yorkshire, England, the “slapformer” is gleefully goofy in the same way that Monty Python is. It may not be the most compelling gameplay experience out there, but the bite-sized comedy delivers some good-natured (if juvenile) laughs through colorful cartoon absurdism that brought me back to my childhood for a couple of hours.

Thank Goodness You’re Here! takes place in a small English town called Barnsworth that’s filled with eccentric locals. Players take on the role of a tiny man, with skin as yellow as a lemon, whose job it is to help out around town. That’s at least what everyone seems to think his job is, anyways. The almost stream-of-consciousness adventure has our hero getting roped into tasks, from mowing lawns to helping a bedridden man get his groceries. A normal day in a small village, right? Not so much.

The town is a slapstick playground dense with sight gags, almost like an explorable Where’s Waldo picture. When I mow that lawn, I inadvertently murder a sentient flower proposing its love to another. The bedridden man gives me a hand — literally — when his sausage-like arm extends out of his room and leads me around town. It’s a series of surrealist laughs mixed with townie humor. The biggest rise it gets out of me is when I come across a canvasser on the street advertising his cause: Bring Back Asbestos.

Your mileage will certainly vary when it comes to the barrage of jokes. It can be crude, gross, and