NotTheNameWeWanted

NotTheNameWeWanted
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86
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81.796
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$2.99
Release date
2 July 2015
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86 (2 619 votes)

Not The Name We Wanted is the ruthless Snake-like parody of that infamous driving game set in the UK. Join us on a shonky hand-drawn voyage across Britain’s green and pleasant lands. Play as Daffyd, Darren and British PM David Cameron in this satirical cult-hit game. Not for the easily offended.

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NotTheNameWeWanted system requirements

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  • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
  • Processor: 1.5 Ghz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

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Recommended requirements are not yet specified.
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Excalibur Sonic
Excalibur Sonic

It's not fun it's boring. At least it's funny.

Lord Szechenyi
Lord Szechenyi

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Want my JACKET POTATO
Tho this is a fun parody unfortunately its very short
soundtrack is great and this game is also cheesy
8/10

Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso

Can confirm that it is in fact, Not GTA V.

Benesony Panda
Benesony Panda

Epic...Majestic...Terrifying...Crazy...Funny...Everything that you need in a game...And then more

Smarthuman
Smarthuman

This game is great, because it is funny and gives to Charity.

3[L] (she/they)
3[L] (she/they)

best UK simulator on Steam

edit: also best Swindon simulator

Kimbold
Kimbold

10/10 never played GTA V but imagine it to be like this.

Deatheguise
Deatheguise

Well, it's not GTA V but it is worth a few laughs.

This short game pokes fun at the GTA games and its crudely drawn visuals are, for lack of better terms, "charmingly hilarious." Worth a short playthrough so I would recomend it to any GTA lovers who just want a good little laugh.

Student of Ink
Student of Ink

10/10
Best Game

It's NOT GTAV...it's not even NotGTAV, it's Not GTA ̶I̶I̶I̶I̶
Pretty sure the GTA here stands for Great Traffic Adventure if I remember correctly, or Good Tacos Always...look, the title isn't important. It's just important to know, it's not Grand Theft Auto V and has no connection to Rockstar. I know so, because the game opens up with making sure that I knew that.

You know, in case it wasn't obvious.

What you'll find here is a great comedic take on Snake, where you just gotta avoid stuff, and hit stuff, and avoid some more stuff. It really is that simple, but you know, there is a Dark Souls setting if you think the game is too easy. You're gonna Rage Quit at least once, okay? It's gonna happen, but you'll have a lot of fun trying to progress just to hear all of the jokes and British humor (humour spelling is okay here, because it's a British game, okay?) that happens in the game, which mostly comes in the form of the audio and characters yapping away.

Look, I've told you all you're gonna need to know if this interests you. I also feel like this trained me for British Politics, and I know it's not true, but it'll make you feel like it when you play this game.

Probably.

bleachfart.jpeg
bleachfart.jpeg

Playing this game is like repeatedly banging your head against a wall. Except the wall has a big rock taped on it. And on the rock, there's a goddamn taser just sitting there, waiting to shut you down.

BiguzDikuz1979
BiguzDikuz1979

Absolute bloody masterpiece of a game.
10/10
Best thing I own. Not only on Steam but everywhere else too!

bonovedledle
bonovedledle

I played this masterpiece for like 15 mins...

this is what i did afterwards:
http://t.qkme.me/3qqk42.jpg

BillionDog
BillionDog

I have this game under the 'Simulator' category because it is so realistic. When you have a long tail as David Cameron, you can actually feel the weight as he tries to accelerate. Also, having personally visited the branch of Lidl in Swindon, I can tell you that they got the car park absolutely right: it looks just like the real thing. This game will give you hours of fun, with a deep and gripping storyline and beautifully modelled characters. 10/10.

A1dan
A1dan

I saved money in the process. Was it worth it? Yes.

Skid Row Trash
Skid Row Trash

This is a grid based snake game with cool hand drawn art and it's extremely boring.

I don't get any of the jokes at all, I assume because I'm not British. I found it to be very anoying with all the talking in the background and pointless dialogue.

One thing I did like was the presentation. The way the game switches between levels and zooms in and out, the writing, the font, and the art was decent and I liked that, at least for the limited time I could stand playing.

As for the actual gameplay, it sucks. While many snake games are somewhat grid based, this one, even though the grid is invisible you can see it by the way things move. Just watching the game you could probably draw an exact copy of the grid and it feels very clunky. This is probably one of the worst snake games I've ever played so far or it's at least tied with the rest of the worst ones.

If you are desperate for a new Snake game and have tried all the rest AND you get this British humor AND you like this art style, then give this a shot. If not, give it a pass. There are actually far better free to play snake games on Steam already.

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CptGrunt95
CptGrunt95

A parody game of Grand Theft Auto but not really that funny or fun to play. It's basically that snake game where you to collect points and avoid your trail.

Gary
Gary

This game is not GTA V
it is GTA X
69/10

Butt Stallion
Butt Stallion

Wow! I got GTA V for a fraction of the price. This is amazing! 10/10

scr
scr

take 4 or 6 15-18 year olds to a computer with a game developing program and this is the result

Farrier
Farrier

Honestly not a bad game. Well... yes it is. It's a pretty terrible game, but it's terrible in a fairly good way. It is absolutely a pisstake of the UK - much less so of GTAV with which is has only the most glancing of relationships. You drive a car, or at least a snake of cars and other clutter, almost Katamari-damacy-style; you do morally questionable things, though this isn't any kind of an explore-morality game; there's a GTAish vehicle at one point but you don't get to drive it; and there are five stars on the UI, though they really represent how far you are through the level rather than your wanted level.

It is filled with British in-jokes, so I'm not sure how fun it would be to someone from outside the country. There are three levels, or scenes, each made of two screens, and each taking the piss out of different aspects of British life.

The first is based in a campground, and takes the piss out of the Welsh, farmers, campers, and rural life in general,
The second takes the piss of the working class, supermarkets, chavs, drug addicts, drivers, and urban life in general.
The third takes the piss out of the upper class, politicians, classism, snobbery, profligate spending, and David Cameron in general.

There's nothing really deep about it, no complex and subtle message or overarching storyline; just three unrelated slices of British life.

It's bit of a challenge to get all the achievements, but not impossible. The UI kinda sucks to switch between levels, you have to hit ctrl while in a level, or the intro screen before a level: you can't do it from the main menu. To restart a level, you have to either complete it, then switch back to it, or reset the game, and play each level before it to unlock back up to it: this is extremely annoying when trying to do the "complete scene 3 without dying" achievement.

Most audio was made by voice talent, and will get repetitive as you die regularly. All art was hand-drawn by deliberately-not-very-accomplished artists, to give it the "indie" look and feel. Despite this, there are touches of polish. The sounds are dynamically positioned, so if you go from left to right past something noisy, it gets louder in one ear, moves across to the other ear, then recedes into the distance. However, this does mean that the multiple layers of sound can overlap and make it different to hear what people are saying, etc. The collision is mostly pretty good. Animation is basic (the shapes wiggle, but rarely have animation frames), but smooth enough. There are quite a few amusing little hidden details in each screen, including the end credits.

It's NOT fantastic. But it's also not as shit as it paints itself as being. It's an indie, all-profits-to-charity game, it's super cheap, and it's obvious the game makers both had a lot of fun, and knew their stuff.

I got 9 hours out of completionist fun and annoyance out of it, and I'll never play it again. And that was plenty for the money.

gaeljef816
gaeljef816

Probably the best game I've ever purchased during a Steam sale when it comes to comedy. 10/10 would recommend for a good laugh.

Princess Jackie
Princess Jackie

Darren the lidl swindon guy needs a raise. unless it was his car in the window

zingmars
zingmars

Can confirm that this is not GTA V.

Nothing wrong with political humour per se, but making a game about contemporary politics means that your game isn't going to age very well. At least GTA V makes the political jokes by first creating a world with seperate political issues that are well defined. This game relies on you remembering 2015 and honestly, I can't even remember what I had for lunch yesterday (did I even have lunch?).

VORDRED.
VORDRED.

litterally the best game ever

they changed the fucking name
fuck you rockstar

matty
matty

FeelsBadMan, the game doesn't become as fun when the name's changed from NotGTAV to the current one. :(
The law hit you?

Jeff :l
Jeff :l

Intense gameplay, had me on the edge of my seat. I'm enraged the name had to be changed, damn you copyright infringement policies.

Roger Doofenshmirtz
Roger Doofenshmirtz

"Bloody liberal democrats"
Best game ever made 12/10

Nihtgenge
Nihtgenge

I laughed so hard that my dog tackled me and licked my face to apply first aid. My roommates also showed up to make sure I wasn't having a seizure.

10/10. Would cause roommates and dog concern again.

KomputerKid
KomputerKid

Might seem like a dumb stupid ""knockoff"" of GTAV, and that's exactly what it is, and it's still fun nonetheless. I'm able to smash David Cameron into Big Ben, and I don't even LIVE in the UK. 10/10.

Chilly Squint
Chilly Squint

Hope you like hearing a lot of whinging about David Cameron, because that's the humor here.

Leonard Greenland
Leonard Greenland

Quite nice to get half of those achievements, but the last part is the most annoying part where I get lots of achievements for every single evidences and it resets (that bloody file shredding part) all over when he dies on every time until this game gets completed.

Humanvegetable
Humanvegetable

This game is terrible. But it promises what it delivers. A snake game.

marinesciencedude
marinesciencedude
Sure, it's called NotGTAV, but those letters stand for Great Traffic Adventure and the V is silent. Like the one in "lawsuit" (which, you'll notice, is also invisible).

Even better if the Bin Man came out of his truck with his mate and started fighting with the learner and the instructor over a parking space. Otherwise, full of mania even some beings outside of this game cannot control.

milc
milc

it wasnt gta

my brother ended up making me buy it the one with the tractor is imposible to beat

note i havent played in 3 years

ARMPITS CONNOISSEUR
ARMPITS CONNOISSEUR

I bought this for Charity. No Regret.

Abs0lem
Abs0lem

Its a game that you would buy if u dont know where to spend money, but is not gonna be a buy you're gonna be proud of

Ben Swithen
Ben Swithen

I'm not sure if I'd recommend this, per se, it being vulgar and facile, choosing its targets cruelly at first, but I enjoyed it tremendously.

The game is simple enough - it's Snake, the ancient classic - but it's the only version of Snake that's really seized my attention. The British GTA aesthetic really works with it (and appropriately it looks most like the old GTA London). The script and performances and audio are excellent. The pictures are charming, in their own way. The pencil drawings are like the Chuckle Brothers, in that they perfectly hit the mark they're aiming for, whether it's what the public wants or not. But here it's more deliberate, and the initial shock is something you'll warm to.

Level three, David Cameron's London, is the hardest - but it's the highlight, well worth working towards. It's fascinating, cos it's a snapshot of (satire on) British politics about four or five years ago, when the expenses scandal and Scottish independence were the big issues of the day. Playing it now it feels like it was decades ago. A simpler time!

All in all, a very satisfying game. Alarming, but well-constructed and engaging.

(Incidentally, the title's what sold it to me. Anything called 'NotTheNameWeWanted' gets my pity and my admiration simultaneously. It's up there with The The, and Untitled Goose Game, as one of the great non-titles).

Zek
Zek

What can I say about this game. While looking though my list of games I saw the name change and remembered that I have not reviewd it so...
Not that hard of a game but still was a bit of time to get all the achievements and I guess the name change is somewhat funny.

nordic
nordic

the only reason to own this game was the joke of the name, now that they changed it there is not a single reason to pwn this

bas200o
bas200o

at least te servers are better than GTAV

Shorkk
Shorkk

An amazing game. The incredible graphics are the best part.

Synrgize
Synrgize

Not even GTAV could compare to this masterpiece

krunt
krunt

hey... hey sex pest... stop fucking my with 9 year old daughter. alright?? im dead seirous cunt i will have u arrested you piece of shit dog. fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. stupid cunt dog you think taking advantage of a 9 year old girl is brave, and or good? or what?????? huh! freak! fucking dog cunt, dog act weirdo fucking spastic, NOOOOOOOOOOONCE. i will fuckin kill you bro, seriously, bro, im gonna, fucking, kill you. doG. SAVANNAH, GET IN HERE. SHES CRYING. YOU FUCKING MENACE BRO> WHATS WRONG WITH YOU???????

boyflea
boyflea

Details

2015: that was 200 years ago., here in the UK...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1611115871
Way back when David Cameron was still a thing, there was this tiny game that pokes tiny fun at a crazy tiny world. It didn't matter, and it was dead funny - as if Viz had made a flash game and got it onto Steam for a laugh.
You remember Snake for Nokia? This game is like that: move around, collect things, your tail of people get longer, avoid increasingly daft stages and bosses. Alittle bit like being Benny Hill chased by the Jeremy Kyle rejects... yeah, it's one of those games.

Summary

A bizarre, short and now-curious piece of arcade history. Simple to play and incredibly funny - if you are British.

(NB: this game was originally titled 'NotGTAV', but seems Rockstar had a humour bypass)

Pros:
- a fun collection of minigames, funny cutscenes and oh-so-cutting satire
- it is daft
- it was cheap
- you need audio: the voiceovers lift this game to epic heights

Cons:
- jokes about David Cameron seem a little wierd now...
- not as graphically awesome as GTA V
- short but fun while it lasts
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1748238549

See Also...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/715990

All boyflea reviews can be found at Good Indie Free Game Reviews

Spear-kun
Spear-kun

So fun they had to change the name because a much larger game company felt threatened.

Gripping plot and political satire. Fun for everyone. Except David Cameron.

10/10

Hard Hat
Hard Hat

baseicly a realy dumb but very fun game of snake
* i apologize for my spelling

EhElMayo
EhElMayo

Its super cheap and good for an hour or two. Why not?

Durango
Durango

Best game ever, but IT DOES NOT HAVE THE NAME WE WANTED! Still 11/10

Draaloff
Draaloff

As a Brit, I can relate. The controls suck, but they feel right at home here.

DapperJ
DapperJ

Its worth it just for the sound track along with the game. Also I can't help but support a group who instead of going to Kickstarter just releases the music to get their Tea with.

UnOriginal_Bastard
UnOriginal_Bastard

So British, so basic, so clunky and yet still less of a train wreck than that Brexit thing.

seter
seter

era notgtav mas dboa, sla q aconteceu com esse jogo

ThePCGamer
ThePCGamer

DISCLAIMER: This is a full review, and NOT a first impressions review

NotTheNameWeWanted or previously known as NotGTAV is a game developed and published by NotGames

The game has some okay environments and the graphics are done well and designed and laid out

The game does suffer with some repetitiveness at certain areas of the game but a fun game nonetheless and ends just at the right time

NotTheNameWeWanted (or NotGTAV) overall, however, is a fun game to play in short bursts and a good satire, parody, casual game to play!

RECOMMENDED :)

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Yoh Slenn Ren
Yoh Slenn Ren

I don't understand the satire, but ha ha funny

Scruggs
Scruggs

i would pay a dollar to get this off my account

The Snacrifice
The Snacrifice

It's snake, but really poorly drawn and with terrible sound effects, and the developers really hate British PM David Cameron. It's very, very, very aggressively british.

It's still snake though, so have fun for twenty+ minutes or so anyway. All the profits go to charity, but I'd still wait for a sale for like 1$ or so since really, it's just snake.

It also works on Linux out of the box, unlike a lot of Rockstar games.

Mogapi
Mogapi

They didn't lie. This is deffinitly NOT GTA V. No no sir or madam this game is a breed of its own. It may look sound act and play like snake but like... it is.

Dog of Wisdom VSTi
Dog of Wisdom VSTi

★☆☆☆☆ (1 Stars)

Stay away, stay faaaar away.

Shagwrath Says:
If you're into snake, it might be for you. Just felt like what it was, a way to grab some money for the GTAV launch. No judgments.

Lynx
Lynx

It's a silly little game, worth the price. Basically a Snake-like game that parodies GTAV

Whats Its Face, From That Thing
Whats Its Face…

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

I try
I try

Truly awful game. You'd think it would be hard to mess up a game like snake, but they did. The snake doesn't move smoothly from tile to tile, rather, it jumps from tile to tile.

You'd be better of playing the Google snake game instead.

Prophet Bossman
Prophet Bossman

Pros
- Comedy. If you know anything about stereotypes surrounding the UK or just have an edgy sense of humour in general you'll enjoy have a good laugh with this game.
- Amazing visuals and soundtrack. Okay, no, I'm kidding, but they do have a certain charm to them, right?
- Hardcore Mode. An extra challenge once you beat a character's levels, play it again with extra speed and try not to crash!
- Choices. Some levels give you the choice of "stealth" (avoiding more obstacles, people that is) or "violence" (killing people by walking into them, just as if you were picking up an item).

Cons
- Very simplistic gameplay. It's snake, that's basically it, it's snake but sometimes you get big moving vehicles or people you have to avoid alongside dodging your own tail for a certain time before moving to the next section, so if you don't have the patience for that and expect something more, well you're out of luck.
- Some achievements don't work. Some achievements, like the ones for beating the game or switching to a character for the first time, weren't given to me when I played the game, even though I finished it.

Funny little GTA parody and Snake knockoff, it's a good laugh and decently enjoyable for a bit, you can get an hour (or two if you play the Hardcore mode) out of it if you play it all the way through. It's a super cheap game so it could hardly be much of a waste to buy, plus all the profits go to charity, so its for a noble cause.

It used to be called NotGTAV and the game is indeed not GTA V, so that was a true title, now it's called NotTheNameWeWanted and its safe to say the devs didn't want to use that name (copyright be damned), so kudos for honesty.

wacky af
wacky af

All of Texas, she can rep it (Crunk ain't dead)
Arkansas (Crunk ain't dead)
The Carolinas (Crunk ain't dead)
Mississippi (Crunk ain't dead)
Alabama, quite the hammer
Illinois, Larry who? (Crunk ain't dead)
Kentucky, they'll do the Walton (Crunk ain't dead)
To Missouri (Crunk ain't dead, crunk ain't dead)

mishalalsari
mishalalsari

everyone and their cat should platy this

beano
beano

by far the greatest spinoff game ive ever played, If you dont understand british humour then the game ain't for you

Ltagames
Ltagames

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second live for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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