Community Paintball Game Releases For Free

Community fans may still be waiting for the movie adaption of their favorite sitcom, but they can now freely download a paintball-themed first-person fangame that takes place at a virtual recreation of Greendale. Dan Harmon’s sitcom was characterized by many of its episodes featuring meta-humor that would also define his next project, Rick and Morty. Paintball was Community‘s go-to when it comes to parodying violence in everything from superhero blockbusters to old-fashioned Westerns, so it’s fitting that a video game based on the show would bring that concept to the fore in gameplay.

Community is also no stranger to video games as part of its content. One episode late in Season Three saw the six members of the show’s central study group transported to an NES-style adventure game at the behest of Pierce’s recently deceased father, Cornelius Hawthorne. As was expected from the show, the episode dug into various retro video game tropes with most of the gang, all while Abed bypassed the levels and formed a strong relationship with an NPC.

Unfortunately for poor Abed, Community fan game 6 Seasons and a Game doesn’t have NPCs of any kind. The game, created by a group of friends going under the name The Human Beings and listed on Steam, takes the concept of the show’s paintball episodes and translates it to an online first-person shooter. As seen in the trailer for the free release, the game recreates the campus of Greendale, including everything from Dean Pelton’s big fist to the foosball table where Jeff bore his soul in a battle of wills.

Beyond a space full of show references, the game uses the campus as a large map for 16-player team-based competitions. Characters from the show are playable in the multiplayer action, or at least legally distinct clones of the characters who share the same name. As one might surmise from the title of the game and the cutesy description on its Steam store page, 6 Seasons and a Game is not affiliated with Sony or anyone behind the making of Community.

In any case, even if it’s only up on Steam for a few days, getting to roam the halls of Greendale in a whole new way is a nice revisit to a show that seems to be achieving more success in reruns than it ever did when it was on. This Community fan project shows just how dedicated its – sorry – community really is, and perhaps somewhere down the line an official game can pick up where this free title left off.

Source: Steam

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