Welcome to the event! On the 28th of February 2026 we will be streaming weird mostly japanese games for SpecialEffect. We are once again putting the power in your hands.

We are playing 12 games this year, and below you will find the list along with the current leaderboards. When donating, put the game code in your donation message! (For example, G6). When donating for multiple games, writing multiple codes will auto split the donation. To assign certain values type for example G6 £20 G7 £5 if you want to mix it up.

As always there will be surprises along the way and fun ways to make us suffer even more under the event. Expect another special guest this year and the return of a fan favourite. Click on the DONATE image to donate.

LEADERBOARDS

Rank	Code	Game Title	Total Donated
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Simple Series

The finest(?) games 2000 Yen can buy. Donate to see us play classics like "Love⭐Mahjong" and "Boxing" Donation Code: G1

Racing Lagoon

Racing Lagoon is Square's unhinged PS1 experiment: midnight street racing meets JRPG melodrama. These lads feel strongly about their wheels. Donation Code: G2

Misfortune: A Story of Suspicious Friendships

A dark-but-cute adventure! 5 kids return to their old school to keep a childhood promise... a creepy mystery unravels!! Donation Code: G3

Septentrion: Out of the Blue

A panic-fueled survival adventure where a luxury ship sinks, everyone freaks out, and your every decision can make it worse!! Donation Code: G4

Prisoner

Rooms! Trapped in several rooms!! The solution to your captivity? Increasingly bizarre conversations with NPCs. Bless these translators Donation Code: G5

Cookie's Bustle

An absurd point-and-click oddity where the titular Cookie skips through encounters impossible to describe in 20 words or less Donation Code: G6

Planet Laika

A historically accurate portrayal of the first dog in space, keeping all the psychedelic elements intact. Donate for anthro Donation Code: G7

Policenauts

This is here because it's Kojima, it's noir, it's cops in space. Will someone make smoking look cool? Donate to find out Donation Code: G8

Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile

Kei and Reina land on a mysterious island to find their lost friend, only to discover it's survival horror!! Blue Stinger flashbacks... Donation Code: G9

Jingle Cats

Force cats to fall in love so they have to sing pop songs for you. Don't mind if I do Donation Code: G10

Kaze No Notam

It's a hot air balloon game where you do hot air balloon things. Floating, drifting etc. The challenge is staying awake Donation Code: G11

Chocobo Dungeon

The fifth "Mystery Dungeon" game to be released, but the first with a fat yellow bird as the protagonist. Brand equity Donation Code: G12

Berserk Millennium Empire Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War

It's a hack-and-slash game, it's made by hacks and I want to take a slash on their game design document Donation Code: G13

Mother 3 (Earthbound 2)

The little-known indie darling! It's like Undertale if it was Japanese. Donate to signal boost these obscure titles Donation Code: G14

Berwick Saga

Fire Emblem designer Shouzou Kaga presents this drastically different medieval tactics RPG: the names of characters and places are different Donation Code: G15

Germs

A tense survival thriller where the city has gone wrong, paranoia prevails, and your journalistic skills will be put to the test Donation Code: G16

Paranoia Scape

Did that thing just move or was that just the PS1's Affine Texture Mapping? It's a visual nightmare either way Donation Code: G17

Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna

The bishy Sci-Fi RPG! Do the magical girl's clothes explode when she loses? It's entirely plausible. Can we even stream this Donation Code: G18

Sweet Home

A movie tie-in NES game where a film crew explore the scariest thing possible: a big house. An evil residence...? Donation Code: G19

Doctor Hauzer

Adams Adler must solve the disappearance of Doctor Hauzer! Unfortunately the mansion is both spooky and puzzle filled (many such cases) Donation Code: G20

Aconcagua

A terrorist plot crashes your plane on a frigid mountain summit, help the survivors descend the frozen peak or perish! Donation Code: G21

Dog of Bay

A rhythm game with uncanny-looking dog people. The screenshots of this are bad enough don't make me play it Donation Code: G22

Dead of Brain 1 & 2

FairyTale's first "violence" themed game after getting owned by the Japanese Govt. for their "sex" themed games. Aaaa zombies!! Donation Code: G23

L.O.L.: Lack of Love

An evolution simulation game where you must adapt to the alien environment to survive. Features interactive pissing!! Donation Code: G24

Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream

The isekai classic, famous for its "feminine sensibility" and quirky characters. Mayor Frogcar is a frog in a car. Donation Code: G25

Iru!

Trapped in the school, a young lad's mates are picked off one by one. Dodge beasties and solve puzzles or die!! Donation Code: G26

LSD: Dream

In Lunacy, the Savage Dream... in Limbo, the Silent Dream... in Linking, the Sapient Dream... try playing this at 5AM Donation Code: G27

Ecsaform

Bandai delivers the atmospheric, moody tactics RPG that dares to ask the question: corridors? (the answer is yes) Donation Code: G28

iS: Internal Section

A kaleidoscopic "tube-shooter" in the vein of Tempest, set in a flat polgon hell with a thumping techno soundtrack Donation Code: G29

Hakaiou: King of Crusher

A beat-em-up about a salaryman who becomes so consumed with rage he punches his entire office, and then everything else Donation Code: G30

Mizzurna Falls

Mizzurna Falls is an odd town where strange things happen and nothing is like Twin Peaks at all Donation Code: G31

Remote Control Dandy

A rich kid controls a giant robot with a remote control to beat up the enemy robots. Hell yes Donation Code: G32

Run=Dim as Black Soul

A mecha strategy game. Protect your own hexagons and hit hexagons with enemy mechs with a sword. Hexagon Donation Code: G33

Gangway Monsters

Can't decide whether to play Monster Rancher or Beyblade? Thank your Gods for Gangway Monsters! It's Monster Rancher Beyblade Donation Code: G34

Metal Max Returns

A turn-based vehicle combat RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. The protagonist isn't actually called Max, or even the road warrior Donation Code: G35

R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital

FMV game where visiting hours at the hospital are interrupted by explosions. Explore the eerie wards, for all is not as it seems... Donation Code: G36

iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi

So aesthetic... artist Naohisa Inoue traps you in one of his paintings, which the Playstation desperately tries to render nicely Donation Code: G37

Kowai Shashin: Shinrei Shashin Kitan

Or "Scary Photos: Tales in Spirit Photography" in English. Check real-life digitized photos for ghostly apparitions ripe for exorcism Donation Code: G38

Welcome House

Keaton Paxman is locked inside Uncle Parkinson's estate. What a faff. Escape or be subjected to comic mischief! Donation Code: G39

America Oudan Ultra Quiz

It's a quiz game about the USA made by Japanese people, which will only confuse and confound us Donation Code: G40

City Hunter

Action game based on the legendary manga. Pervert bodyguard has ridiculous aim and gets hit with a mallet for being horny Donation Code: G41

Blue Submarine No. 6: Saigetsu Fumahito- Time and Tide

Slow-paced post-apocalyptic submarine life simulation game. Scour the seabed for salvage. Maybe have a fight or two. Dive Donation Code: G42

Vampire Panic

The town of Inzelburg is under attack by a swarm of vampires. Escort villagers to safety before they turn! Donation Code: G43

Shadow Tower

A dungeon crawler by FromSoftware that reviewers describe as "not King's Field". This game has weapon durability and no music Donation Code: G44

Front Mission

The legendary mecha tactics RPG. Set up your Wanzer, which is a funny word. Wanderpanzer means walking tank Donation Code: G45