Bizarre game trailer will give you a serious case of the thirsties

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Soda Drinker Pro
Prepare for some existential thirst-quenching. Screencap: Evan Killham/Cult of Mac

Soda Drinker Pro lauds itself as “the original FPS (first-person soda) simulator,” and that’s probably true because that description is mad specific.

The weirdo game, which looks straight out of Cartoon Network’s stoner-centric programming block Adult Swim, just landed a spot on digital-distribution platform Steam after a successful Greenlight campaign. Greenlight lets the Steam community vote on which indie games earn a place in the store, and developer Snowrunner Productions celebrated by releasing a brand-new trailer (below) that looks like the kind of soda commercial that surrealist filmmaker David Lynch would make.

The game, if we’re calling it that, includes more than 100 levels that have players enjoying refreshing beverages in a variety of locations, including parks, cities and space. It’s available for $4.99 on Steam for both Mac and PC.

It supports the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset because of course it does, and the upcoming Xbox One release will let you use Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera. Either option will allow players to really immerse themselves in the experience of pretending to drink sodas.

Other than the obvious reasons, the new trailer is also strange in its ability to make everyone I’ve shown it to want to get a drink.

It’s uncanny. I mean, I have a Cherry Coke Zero right now, but I bought that before I watched the thing. I think. It’s possible I blacked out for a moment from all the frantic sipping action on display in the trailer.

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