While researching the itch.io story, I visited Funko Fusion’s Steam page and found this nonsense.

Steam’s pages have an “is this game relevant to you?” section, in which a collection of algorithms try to guess whether you’d like a game based on its user reviews, tags, curator recommendations, and similarity to other games in your Steam library.

Funko Fusion, I was informed, is similar to Portal, which I found very unlikely. I’ve played Portal, and I don’t remember most of this. Or this. Or any of this.

Jim Sterling’s absolutely scathing Funko Fusion review does mention “portal puzzles” which… I guess this clip does have portals in it, along with the looting and sloppy-looking combat in an inscrutably laid out and eye-searingly colorful level:

…and I have now seen more than enough Funko Fusion videos for one lifetime.

In summary, I’m going to just keep on paying not much attention to what Steam’s algo thinks I might like.

(Why Portal and not Portal 2, the one with co-op?)

Also, to reiterate, I have now seen way too many videos of this game, and the way that other idiotic algo works, they’ll be clogging up my YouTube recommendations for weeks. Blecch.