There’s a moment that perfectly crystallizes the spirit of Jenna Felli’s latest game, a title every bit as unhinged and out of step with the broader hobby as the rest of her greatest hits, Dûhr: The Lesser Houses, Cosmic Frog, and The Mirroring of Mary King.

For most of the game’s duration, you’ve been assembling swarms of flies. Mayflies, dragonflies, deer flies — all varieties, illustrated by Rowan Morgan with a crispness that wouldn’t feel out of place in a children’s book of entomology. Then, outta nowheres, BLAM, they are here, drawn in color and motion at odds with the stillness of those flies. And they’re going to wreck somebody’s day.

It’s Murray.

Murray the Frog.

Murray the A**hole Frog.

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