ToMorning Productions brings us an awesome Kickstarter: You are Not the Hero! I love the summary, so I’ll let it speak for itself:

When was the last time you played a game, any game really, where you walked into someone’s home, nonchalantly opened drawers, cabinets, picked locks, upturned a bed and talked to the freaking homeowner in hopes of finding something you could loot? Oh, right before this game? Yeah I thought so. Aside from more humble games like Skyrim, where you had to steal items instead of taking them, every game that has item management lets you play the bad guy without being the bad guy.

Let me tell you something: NPCs hate your guts, they just can’t say it to your face! Just cleared a forest of roving bandits? Well they were the only ones keeping a population of meerkats in check. The local farms can’t keep them at bay and you’ve just triggered the worst national food shortage in the past decade. Good job, hero! I think it’s time for some payback.

I absolutely love when forms of media poke fun at their tropes and clichés, so it only took that to get me to back this campaign. You Are Not the Hero puts you in the shoes of Petula, “an unemployed, emotionally charged, ill-tempered, otherwise average young woman.” It’s a 2D action platform RPG without a battle system. There will be minigames within the main quest (getting your pendant back after some heroes steal it), such as running a bakery, an inn, waitressing, having a stall at the market, and even raising ostriches!

I’m really excited to play this one. The game has been approved on Steam Greenlight, so every backer can get a Steam key if they want. You can also play a demo; it’s pre-alpha, so it doesn’t represent the final game, but you can get a general idea. Get it here.

Check out the official site, like the Facebook page, and follow on Twitter. Go back it now on Kickstarter! It ends on November 12, so get in while you can.