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This free game about shaking hands is a perfect dose of silly surrealismRemember shaking hands? Not like this you don’t.

Remember shaking hands? Not like this you don’t.

A Firm Handshake - Two small, low-poly people in suits shake hands in a yellow void.

If you’ve forgotten during the pandemic times what it’s like to shake hands in the real world, this weird free game will not help you remember. It is a handshake in its purest form: two five-fingered skin spatulas yearning for one another in an empty void, draging their suit humans along behind them until they meet with a meat slap.A Firm Handshakeis quick, tiny, and I laughed out loud at it. You should give it a try.

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The second handshake is sillier. You begin as a single business person. Each other business person whose hand you shake will join your little business train until you’ve turned into a business snake. Your posse of suits shuffle along behind you until you’re a winding line, creating a thunderousclip clopcacophony everywhere you go.

A Firm Handshake - A business person in a suit is twisted around backwards to accept a handshake from another business person while a bunch of folks in suits follow behind them.

A Firm Handshake is a small free game that you can find and playover on Itch. It took me about ten minutes to play, but you can probably do it in five if you aren’t goofing around like I was. I recommend goofing though.

As the American in the room, I’m suddenly gripped with a fear that I’ve managed to accidentally include some weird UK slang that I don’t know about in here. Please don’t tell me if skin spatula or suit snake are euphemisms. The Google Image results for both were not immediately damning, so in they stay.