A review by jakekilroy
Megahex by Simon Hanselmann

4.0

There's such a strangely inviting quality to the curious bleakness of Megahex. It's a group of losers unempathetically wasting their life away, with one of them marginally self-aware enough to know he deserves better (yet is also for sure a wastoid). It's just a landscape of dumb, but I dig worlds like this, a tiny universe of friends where anything's possible. A depressed witch, a manipulative cat, and a giant yuppie owl live together? Totally. Their best friends are a werewolf and a sorcerer? Rad. All they do is get high, drink themselves into mania, and sabotage one another for the sake of fleeting hilarity but also to maybe keep them all tethered to not rising above minimal effort? Great. It's just a cruel story about idiots (who aren't really remorseful or redeemable), but I kept wanting to go on these insanely stupid adventures with them. A self-created oblivion is way sadder when that world is filled with anything that comes to mind. Instead, these chumps just stick to a shitty rented house they share and destroy because it's the only place they hold dominion — a self-fulfilling curse.