BadTrip

BadTrip is an adventure game with horror elements and black humor, divided into six chapters in which you play as different characters. The story follows Jack as he tries to find his family and defeat Wendigo after a trip to the woods goes wrong.

Jack and the woods

In Chapter I, “Jack, the Bad Husband,” Jack works at a factory in the city where his family lives. His supervisor, Mark, pressures him to do his job or face being fired. Tired of his routine, Jack decides to move his family to Chicago. After an argument with his wife, Margot, about the city’s burnt-rubber smell from the factory, Jack takes Margot and their five-year-old daughter Lisa to picnic in the woods in his yellow car, which Margot hates.

Margot asks Jack to find logs for a fire and food while she and Lisa tend to the tent. In the woods, Jack encounters thugs who previously robbed his factory. They attack him with their bare fists, but he defeats them and finds money and a pipe.

Wendigo’s attack

Chapter II, “Hungry Wendigo,” shifts to Wendigo, who is hungry for fresh meat and sets out to kidnap Jack’s family. On the way to Margot and Lisa, near the river, Wendigo knocks down three thugs and continues toward them.

Jack has become lost in the woods. When Wendigo attacks, Margot is forced to defend herself without his help. Frightened, she finds Jack’s gun in their yellow car and fights Wendigo while Lisa hides in the tent. Margot fails to protect her family.

Finding his family

In Chapter III, “Jack & Pipe,” Jack wakes from a deep sleep, alone in the dark woods and unsure what happened. A talking pipe tells him, but Jack does not believe it and has a panic attack. The pipe then helps him search for his family. Jack encounters many zombies, and the pipe helps him find an axe to survive and complete tasks.

In Chapter IV, “Nuts Grandpa,” Jack reaches a larger forest and finds a grandpa’s hut surrounded by armed thugs. With the talking pipe’s help, he defeats them and rescues the nuts Grandpa. Jack learns that the thugs were Grandpa’s friends and that Grandpa is now alone in the forest. Grandpa tells Jack how to continue searching for his family and defeat Wendigo, but first tasks him with finding a magical pipe hidden in nearby Amerindian tents.

The tribe and Wendigo’s cave

After completing Grandpa’s task, Jack becomes the boss of a tribe of Amerindians in Chapter V, “Amerindian Trip.” The tribe searches for the parts of a magical axe that will make Jack invincible and able to defeat Wendigo. Jack can bring more Amerindians along using a Dreamcatcher and a special drum that calls his peers to battle; those summoned accompany the drum’s owner and can help fight enemies along the way.

In Chapter VI, “Jack, Let’s Do This!,” Jack is close to finding his family and searches a strange forest full of armed enemies for Wendigo’s cave. The cave is a maze leading to his family.

Weapons and combat

Jack can fight with his bare fists and two types of axes. Weapons he finds thanks to the thugs include a handgun, rifle, shotgun, rocket launcher and grenades. Combat uses automatic targeting against enemies.

Dialogue and sound

Dialogues accompany the game with both humorous and creepy sounds.