Revisiting Ecstatica - the pioneering survival horror that used its fancy ellipsoid graphics tech to fill its world with dongs

There's a well-known phenomena in video games development known as time-to-penis. It's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek measurement of the time players, when given an exciting suite of new customisation tools, will take to create the first inevitable in-game dong. Ecstatica sort of implies it works the other way round too. That developers - when giddy with a new tech toy - can't always help themselves either. But maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Read more

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Oct 27, 2026, 4:05 PM UTC