Cunt (video game)

Cunt is a shoot-em-up Flash game developed by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl.

Gameplay
Players control a disembodied penis which orbits a giant anthropomorphised vagina. The object of the game is to defeat each of the vagina by firing semen at its underside, after which play continues with a different vagina taking its place. The penis is moved left and right by the player, orbiting around the vagina a full 360 degrees. During play the surface of the vagina produces sexually-transmitted diseases and parasites such as pubic lice from pustules, these can be destroyed while still in pustule form or can be destroyed by the player once hatched and mobile. Diseases move towards the penis and attack once they collide with it. Both the vagina and penis have energy bars, game over occurs if the penis' bar is depleted, depleting the vagina's bar results in the player progressing to the next stage. The types and number of enemies increase as the player progresses through the game stages. Power ups such as steroids increase the penis' firing speed or partially refill its energy bar.

Reception
Cunt elicited responses from gaming blogs Acid for Blood and Feminist Gamers, which were reported by Kotaku's Maggie Greene, who described the game as "a rather graphic representation of a fear of women that goes back a very, very long time".

Video game journalists were more light-hearted about the game's content. Alec Meer described Cunt as "worth seeing for its audacity alone". Independent game designer Derek Yu joked "this game represents a very real threat by “electronic cyber-terrorists” to destroy the American values you hold so dear, so you should probably play it before they take it away from you"