Play fun minigames until you... die?!
PortaBoy+ is a WarioWare-inspired Survival Horror game by Lumpy Touch.
The game has you play the titular PortaBoy, which has a collection of 5 microgames on it lasting for a few seconds each. Like its inspiration, you cycle through the games, with several hearts that go down by one each time you lose a microgame, with a game over if the hearts run out. Each time a game ends in either a win or loss, your score goes up by 1. You can also buy hearts from a shop if you have the funds.
But after a certain number of rounds, monsters start appearing and attacking, and you will need to switch between playing the microgames and fending them off with your shotgun — which you will also need to keep stocked with ammo at the shop.
This game contains examples of:
- Disguised Horror Story: The game starts off as a retro-flavored WarioWare-style collection of minigames, played on a handheld Game Boy Expy with appropriate graphics and music, and a geometric shape background behind. Then you notice the game gives you a shotgun when you reach 9 points. Then you see the games starting to glitch and distort when you reach 12 points. Then at 15 points the geometric shapes give way to a dimly lit hallway with monstrous Portaboy-zombies ambling toward you, and you now have to juggle killing the monsters with the shotgun and completing the increasingly glitchy minigames and uncovering a story about a MegaCorp hooking brains up to computers to mine crypto.
- Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: The background story is slowly revealed through a series of pictures you get every time you reach a high score in the tens, from 10 to 50.
- MegaCorp: The background story concerns one that hooks up players to a machine that lets them play games virtually while using their brains to mine cryptocurrency, which proves to be a very dangerous process.
- The Most Dangerous Video Game: Eventually after playing a few of the games, the player is stalked by zombified Portaboy mascots coming for them.
- Shout-Out: The “Pet Scope” microgame was named such as a reference to Petscop.
- The Unfought: On rare occasions, the title screen for a different minigame will pop up, such as "Clown Simulator", "It's Rat Time", or "My Lil Spider". These can't be played; an error message will invariably pop up, and one of the usual 5 minigames will replace it instead.
