Sadly this kind of "game" actually gets greenlit faster than any other... It spreads all over the internet as a joke and within a week all the 9gag kids make it reach the top 5 on greenlight.
Rock simulator was another example but apparently the author deleted that entry. Good riddance.

Sierra made a joke back in 1991 that I think is pretty relevant today:
http://youtu.be/XlCLLRepoNo?t=45s skips to 45 secs in.

You mean they'll have to remove the brick that's permanently weighing down the big green button in Valve HQ's quality testing area that says "Approve"?

In related news, there was a bread simulator game called "I am bread" that was also approved for Steam, and it also looks pretty weird. Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDE4rsLVB9A Speaking of "youngsters voting on games" and "memes"; Nintendo recently gave their seal of approval to a game called "Meme run" that is going to be releasing mid-December on their e-shop. It's hard to believe that it's actually being made as a game that's going to be sold for real money, and that Nintendo took to twitter just to officially approve the game, even acknowledging that it was controversial. (I made the link start half-way through the video to skip the obnoxious shouting that happens twice in the first half. Not that the rest of it isn't obnoxious...)


Here is the video for that one...directly to you: http://youtu.be/SoGTTzs2PLg?t=1m19s

Apparently the story with that one is that the developer asked the Miiverse Community whether they wanted to see the game made available.

I don't know what makes me feel worse, the fact that some people will actually buy that garbage or the fact that someone will profit from it... Urgh... I need to watch a God Bless America - Videogame Edition, someone kickstart that.

...seriously?

No, I don't have that one :( But I have retail copy of Limbo of the Lost :)

Man, still meaning to grab that one. It keeps popping up on Allegro comparably cheap. One day...

I don't see the problem, if you don't want it don't buy it.
That's what people say all the time when GOG releases something a lot of people don't care about.

That... might make an entertaining little sim, provided there were some gameplay in it, you know. :)
(OK, I'm a kitten lover, shoot me!)
Well, it can be difficult to find the good indie games and underrated gems when they are flooded by shovelware, though. Like looking for a movie for tonight and getting 3 boxes full of unlabeled direct-to-video dvds.

I'm sure we could have the play with yarn mini-game and the play with shoelaces. Play with laser pointer. I think there is a lot of potential...

True, but the same is and has been true for all media.
There are tons of terrible books (even more now that they don't have to be printed) and horrible, horrible movies.
I still think it's up to the customer to decide whether or not they want it.
Tastes differ and maybe somebody loves watching cow rave parties for hours at a time.

Yeah, the large amount of horrible, fanfic-grade erotica on the kindle library is quite disturbing. Not that I've read any or anything. >.>

Brilliant. That feels more relevant now than ever before.
The Advanced Chicken Simulator one could also used to promote the new Goat Simulator.

I wouldn't mind if the game included a DRM that installs a virus that will make the user's computer a brick. Anyone who willingly plays shit like this deserves nothing less.