Video Game Menu: The Game Turns Settings Screens Into the Main Event

Video Game Menu: The Game takes the joke premise seriously: there is no game, only menus. The entire experience consists of navigating settings screens and pressing buttons to see what happens, with no combat, puzzles, or platforming to distract from the real draw.

The game includes standard options like graphics quality, v-sync, FPS targets, and brightness adjustments. But it quickly ventures into absurdity. Players can rotate their screen, adjust how bloated the interface appears, toggle a take-off-glasses effect that blurs everything, and enable a cursorphobic buttons option that makes all buttons flee from the cursor to make them harder to press.

Other nonsensical settings include airplane mode, which overlays a cockpit PNG across the entire screen, and an option that shrinks all text and buttons as the cursor approaches them. According to the Steam page, the game asks: "Are you tired of video games constantly pestering you with pointless things like challenges, levels or gameplay?"

The game does include actual minigames buried within the menu system, presumably as a testing ground for the chaotic combinations of settings players create. Rock Paper Shotgun describes it as a rare comedy game and a reflection on how video game menus function, or fail to function.

Video Game Menu: The Game is available now on Steam.