Listen up: ever shivering at references to this ASMR Stye Treatment? That’s what this is: this strange, but curiously enjoyable thing that’s been popular.
So, picture this: you’re toughing out eye styes, but hey, you do it in sheer comfort. Sounds bizarre, right? Well, that is exactly how it is!
And then you begin with this shot of an eye. Your job? Burst that annoying stye using the following apparatus. Oh, I know that it sounds disgusting, but it is sort of fun to do, or at least sufficiently strange to become addictive quickly.
The sounds are the focus in this case. There isn’t a single effect of squeezing, popping, or wiping that isn’t displayed with extreme clarity. It is as if you are there but can feel the ick factor from where you are. At some point I was completely plugged into the headphones, and gone.
I then took the privilege of showing the video to my roommate. She was disgusted but five minutes in? Couldn’t put it down. We proceeded to have a marathon of stye-popping. Don’t judge!
The definition of the graphics is rather high. You can nearly see the skin’s individual pores and fine bristle. In its own way, for a scholar like me, it feels very clinical, sort of.
Each level gets trickier. Various kinds of styes, novelty tools to learn. But the piece is intent on elevating the prose, so to speak, and to do so it is as if the writer is a small optometrist.
If you are a fan of the games that are a bit strange but are good for passing a couple of hours, consider playing ASMR Stye Treatment. It’s ideal for relaxing, or, yes, just when you get that peculiar need to pop stuff. It will be just a tad gruesome if you play it, for instance, during your dinner, yes, so perhaps it is better not to do that.
