Video Game Menu: The Game lets you do nothing but click through menus — and that's the whole point

Video Game Menu: The Game is exactly what it sounds like: a game where the only thing you do is navigate menus, press buttons, and see what breaks. It's out now on Steam.

The Steam page leans hard into the bit — "Are you tired of video games constantly pestering you with pointless things like challenges, levels or gameplay?" The answer, apparently, is yes. Standard options like graphics quality, v-sync, FPS targets, and brightness are all present, but things quickly get weird. There's a screen rotation slider, a "how bloated is the game" setting, and a take-off-glasses toggle that presumably just blurs everything. The cursorphobic buttons option makes every button flee from your cursor. Airplane mode slaps a cockpit PNG over the entire screen. Text and buttons shrink the moment your cursor gets near them.

Comedy games that actually commit to a single absurdist bit are rare, and this one seems to know exactly what it is — a gentle poke at the sprawling, often baffling option screens that real games ship with. There are apparently some minigames buried inside the menus too, which feels like the right way to hide actual gameplay in something that's philosophically opposed to it.

It's not going to eat your weekend, but if you want something low-stakes and genuinely funny for twenty minutes, Video Game Menu: The Game is on Steam now.