V2 Cucumber Scam

V2 Cucumber Scam is a 2D pixel-art adventure about Mac Skin, a former interplanetary cargo-ship captain. Rather than serve a 20-year sentence for space crimes, he agrees to an experimental echomutation that heightens his senses, in exchange for mandatory service at a remote station in the Verdun Belt. When a mysterious anomaly over V2 interrupts his routine, Mac makes an emergency landing on the planet.

The planet V2

V2 is where the Cucumbers, a bizarre species that caused more harm than good on Earth, were exiled. Mac also encounters the Shadows: wherever they gather, the planet withers and turns gray and lifeless. He must find a way off V2 and avoid contact with the Shadows, but his best chance of surviving is to make a pact with the cunning Cucumbers. Their schemes bring him dangerously close to the Shadows.

Build and survive

You expand your base, grow and harvest crops, gather resources and build Floratrons, which enrich barren soil with minerals. You also need to keep the lights on: if the base falls into darkness, the Shadows gain the upper hand. Beyond the base, you explore V2, hunt alien lifeforms and uncover the planet’s history and secrets.

An episodic adventure

The game combines adventure, cosmic farming, base building, resource gathering and alien-lifeform hunts in an hours-long, episodic story presented in a series-like format. Its journey is humorous and sarcastic, with surprises along the way, as Mac fights to survive and keep his sanity while investigating what the Cucumbers are hiding.