Freeware Game Pick: Karoshi 2 (Jesse Venbrux)
Karoshi 2 is the sequel to the similarly titled platformer released by Jesse Venbrux last month. The game consists of over fifty short levels in which you have to figure out the correct method to help the main character commit suicide. Use the cursor keys to move your character. Press the Z key to jump. R key restarts, and the escape key quits.
The developer had also included a level editor and Karoshi 1 speed run mode, where players would have to complete close to thirty stages from the original in under seven minutes.
Name: Karoshi 2
Developer: Jesse Venbrux
Category: Platformer
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here
Comments
Can't wait to kill myself over and over again...
Posted by: Gr.Viper | April 10, 2008 6:07 AM
I lack the requirements to beat level 49. Mp3 is the new age format. (at least I believe that's how you're supposed to beat that stage)
Posted by: Anonymous | April 10, 2008 7:47 AM
For people who don't have any audio cd's lying around (I assumed everyone'd still have these) I uploaded an alternate version:
http://venbrux.com/karoshi2/Karoshi%202.0_nocd.zip
Make sure you put your old savefile in the same folder and you're good to go. Sorry for the trouble.
Posted by: Jesse | April 10, 2008 10:20 AM
Finished... that cart game was fun!
Posted by: Gr.Viper | April 10, 2008 12:24 PM
Alright! I loved the first one.
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 10, 2008 1:54 PM
I'm using the NoCD version, and the CD level says to press 'ECAPS' to finish the level. Nothing I press works. Is this supposed to be the Escape key, or something else? Escape just takes me back to the menu, but doesn't let me move on to the next level.
Posted by: Palad | April 10, 2008 3:28 PM
Palad, read backwards ;)
Posted by: Gr.Viper | April 10, 2008 4:05 PM
Haha, I was stuck on the CD level forever before I thought to check in the comments for a solution.
Music CD? People still own music on CDs?
Posted by: Ryan | April 10, 2008 4:14 PM
AArrrghghghg! Why did it have to be something so simple? Now I feel like an idiot. 8/
Posted by: Palad | April 10, 2008 4:37 PM
Great game! Any plans for another sequel?
Posted by: Palad | April 10, 2008 4:42 PM
Awesome improvement over the last, although I'm stuck at 22. I bet it's blatantly obvious what you're supposed to put in that box. :(
Posted by: Matt | April 10, 2008 6:22 PM
You put in there what this guy is supposed to do on each and every level of the game :)
Posted by: Gr.Viper | April 10, 2008 6:40 PM
Can't even tell what 32 is trying to show me, so I don't get 34. Looks like a D-Pad?
Posted by: soda | April 10, 2008 7:42 PM
brilliant! i love it even more than the first one and that's putting it somewhere up there with my favorite indie games ever :D
hnngg! stuck on level 34!
Matt, it kinda is! i found that quite a few words worked. do you want to see him alive and well? NO!
Posted by: gustav | April 10, 2008 7:43 PM
nevermind, i just got it
dang that's clever
Posted by: soda | April 10, 2008 7:45 PM
hahaha. just got level 34. awesome.
i might just profess my man-love to you, jesse :$
Posted by: gustav | April 10, 2008 7:45 PM
LoL! Other Indiegames like Oi and Seven minutes parodied!
Funny agame!
But what do you do in level 32? Please help anybody?
Posted by: Dieboy | April 10, 2008 8:46 PM
@gustav:
Ahahaha ha. (Thanks!)
@Dieboy, above me:
Just don't do anything at all.
Also, Seven Minutes is parodied, but Oi is actually by me (though I never finished it).
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Thanks for the comments everyone.
Posted by: Jesse | April 10, 2008 9:15 PM
stuck at room 34... sadly.
"2 lvls bck"? is that supposed to be "2 levels back" or something?
I didn't have this difficulty on the first one, so this one is indeed harder.
Posted by: Zeta | April 11, 2008 12:30 AM
yeahh!!!
I pass room 34 just now.. :D
Posted by: Naufr4g0 | April 11, 2008 1:16 AM
Great game, really enjoyed the humor and the fact it messed with our minds :D.
I truly hope you still have ideas left for yet another sequel ;).
Posted by: LoneLines | April 12, 2008 8:32 AM
Finished it yesterday and I love it! even better than the first, and paradoied several indie games. Also the ending was great. Was the old movie part the last one?
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 12, 2008 11:26 PM
YES! AWESOME STUFF!
Just completed it. Pure unspoiled genius. I'm not going to spoil it for anybody...
(I picked the heart. Can you go back and pick the other option somehow?)
Posted by: Matt | April 13, 2008 9:04 PM
What are some of the other indie games parodied apart from seven minutes? I recognise frozzd
Posted by: Mike | April 17, 2008 6:26 PM
Heh, at the end you can choose the heart, then quickly go down to the spikes and kill yourself.
Posted by: TJ | April 18, 2008 3:02 AM
Hah, just finished it, great game, some very good humor.
The ending(s) is/are great. =)
Press Q tu quit, heh.
Posted by: Bal | April 20, 2008 12:09 PM