Manual Samuel

Manual Samuel is a 2D animated adventure sidescroller where players control all of the bodily functions of main protagonist Sam. This ranges from taking individual steps using alternating buttons to move each foot to pressing a key for Sam to blink. The goal of the game is to help Sam make it through the day in this manual fashion.

Sam Welthenburg Jr., the son of a wealthy CEO, is hit by a septic truck while chasing after his distraught girlfriend. Finding himself in Hell (where all residents must get jobs), Sam makes a deal with the skateboard-loving Death to return to life under the conditions that he must survive 24 hours performing all bodily functions manually.

After a disastrous day at work, Death inadvertently causes the robots of Sam Sr.'s company to come to life. With his job on the line, Death forces Sam to volunteer to control a massive manually controlled robotic suit to help eliminate the robots. Chasing their leader to Mushroom Orphanage, the robot tricks Sam's heat-seeking missiles into firing upon the orphanage, killing 300 innocent orphans and sending their souls to Heaven. Death, trying to escape, is confronted by Satan in Hell.

On Metacritic, the game has "mixed or average" scores for its PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch ports.