Civic Nightmare is a short satirical browser RPG built in Godot 4.3.

You play as a broke, exhausted citizen trying to renew a passport in a world ruled by bureaucracy, spectacle, corporate ego, and geopolitical absurdity. The game blends retro 16-bit moods, CRT-era distortion, and caricature-driven encounters into a compact interactive parody of contemporary power.

This is a darkly funny, intentionally strange playable experience: brief, weird, and rough in the right places.

Features

- One short surreal mission centered around a bureaucratic passport quest

- Satirical encounters with contemporary caricatures

- Retro-inspired visuals with CRT/VHS-style effects

- Browser-playable for free

- Built in Godot 4.3

- Custom asset-cleaning pipeline for game-ready character cutouts

Status

Playable now. Still evolving.

Free to play.

More information

Published	1 day ago
Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 total ratings)
Author	unityloop
Genre	Role Playing
Made with	Godot
Tags	Comedy, Dystopian, Experimental, Parody, Pixel Art, political, Retro, satire, Short, Surreal
AI Disclosure	AI Assisted, Code, Graphics

Development log

Civic Nightmare is now live on itch.io
21 hours ago

Comments

Denim 992 hours ago

At first I had hard time understanding, then it was an explosion of fun, the cards of the characters are incredibile cool, it´s an explosion of fun and deep satiric. great job

unityloop3 hours ago

Happy to answer about the game! enjoy

DacaTrue3 hours ago

so genius and crazy! thanks for the experience!

unityloop3 hours ago

thanks and yes it´s a bit crazy :)

Gerwancik7 hours ago

Cool game, it is funny and gameplay is good too.