For anyone who has ever expressed a vague interest in video games, online life is characterized by bizarre advertisements for shovelware games. It's a little vignette where someone builds a house, saves a damsel from a burning volcano, or mixes up a glop in a strangely satisfying way.

Now, someone has created a mini-game collection on Steam. I'm going to give this name its own paragraph and allow Capslock to get the full effect:

YEAH! You want "that game," right? Then let's clear it up!

YYWTGRSHYGNLSYCT for short; I'm just going to say that at the beginning of something like Stickman's mini-game collection, "YEAH!" and I admire the over-enthusiasm. This is because one of the characteristics of this kind of ad is that it has little to do with what you can actually play. If you click on this kind of ad by mistake, it is usually (a) disreputable and (b) bears no resemblance to the "game" you clicked on.

"That game" is the game you wanted to play to your heart's content, but never got to play. They include a stickman puzzle in a room, a car parking challenge, test tubes filled with various liquids, some sort of stacking/running challenge, and a lot of small buildings with icons on them. The game is a simple setup, with a variety of different styles of mini-games to play. Coins can be spent on "Gotcha!" machines, which can earn you plates and titles.

The enthusiasm for the game is unquestionable. And people actually seem to like the game; the main complaint on Steam is that it's $13 for a fairly light collection of mini-games that mimic mobile shovelware, but, well, that's just the way it is: Steam user Updoggo says, "Like the one where you get people together and fight different groups Or the ones where you throw knives," he says. Oddly enough, I can think of exactly what kind of games they are talking about.

Here's something even stranger. The developer of this collection is Monkeycraft, which PC gamers will be familiar with for their excellent port of "Katamari Damacy." In other words, this company is legit. But it's clear that they, like us, waste their time on social media and mobile gaming.