GlitchSPANKR

GlitchSPANKR

Released Oct 2025

GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices. Spank, spare, or smooch your way through a corrupted 90s game haunted by a lonely, unstable virus. Every level is different. Every choice matters. Your future is in your wiggly hand.

96% positive · 322 reviews
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Steam $19.99
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Evaluation

GlitchSPANKR launched on October 15, 2025 and the developer (Kyle Frost / Mahelyk) maintained a very active post-launch cadence, publishing patch notes, announcements, and milestone updates roughly every week through November 17, 2025. The developer set up a public milestone ladder tied to review counts and delivered on every early tier: a key giveaway at 50 reviews, a community-designed Spank Stick set at 100 reviews (confirmed October 31, 2025), and a community-chosen content reward at 150 reviews (confirmed November 17, 2025). The 200-review milestone — a free content update with new levels, new lore, and new secrets — was explicitly promised and the game has now surpassed it with 319 reviews. However, no post confirming this update has shipped appears anywhere in the developer's news history. The November 17, 2025 post was also the last communication of any kind from the developer. Given that they had been posting nearly every week since launch, the silence since November 17, 2025 — now more than ten months as of today (September 24, 2026) — is a significant departure from their established pattern. Console porting was also mentioned as a future goal, but there has been no follow-up on that either. The promised 200-review content update has been earned but not confirmed delivered, and the developer has not communicated since November 17, 2025. This combination — outstanding committed content and an extended silence that breaks a previously consistent communication pattern — raises genuine uncertainty about whether the update is still in progress.
Evidence
Developer confirmed the 150-review milestone reward was in progress and outlined the 200-review milestone: a free content update with new levels, new lore, and new secrets. This is the last developer communication on record.
news post · Nov 17, 2025 source content planned
high
Developer confirmed 100-review milestone and announced the 200-review milestone reward: a free content update with new levels, new lore, and secrets.
news post · Oct 31, 2025 source content planned
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Black Lantern Collective
Achievements
48
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

This game is "Safe For Work", generally rated as ages 13+! While there is a theme of Spankin', it's all in fun, get your mind out of the gutter!

OVERVIEW

You're a 12 year old gamer in the 90's. You snuck your Mom's forbidden game, Big Booty Slapper 6, onto your dusty bedroom PC while she was asleep. But when you boot it up, something’s wrong. A shapeshifting virus named Spunk has taken over, and he's eating your precious game from the inside out.

Armed with GlitchSPANKR antivirus software (and a floppy pink hand on a stick), dive into corrupted worlds of broken code where every level plays differently to hunt the virus.

But Spunk isn’t just a villain, he’s lonely, unstable, and might just hold the future of the world in his non-existent hands. You can destroy him. You can befriend him. You might even.... fall in love?

Choose your path, unlock hidden endings, customize your SpankStick, decorate your digital HQ, and maybe even save your game from total deletion. Or don’t. Your future is in your floppy, flailing hand.



Your trusty weapon is a floppy pink hand on a bendy metal rod, and it's got one job: spank everything. Use it to solve problems, punish viruses, and destroy almost anything in your path. It wiggles. It whistles when you whip it around. It breaks stuff.

With physics-based smacking and destructin’, almost everything is breakable or interactive. Is your hand wet? Find an air blower. On fire? That’s your problem now. Lights, furniture, emotions: smack that crap outta here. Especially that talking toilet.


Every decision reshapes the story. Will you try to destroy Spunk for corrupting your beloved Big Booty Slapper 6? Spare him and try building a friendship? Or follow your instincts into something you were never meant to find?

GlitchSPANKR features fully branching paths with wildly different levels, mechanics, secrets, and endings. Hunt him. Love him. Regret everything. Then start over and choose differently. You might even stumble upon a deeper conspiracy along the way.

Secret folders. Forgotten levels. Strange messages buried beneath the code. GlitchSPANKR is packed with things the virus doesn’t want you to find.

Complete challenges, collect loot, and unlock new customizations for your SpankStick. Decorate your SPANKR HQ, show off trophies, and maybe, just maybe, uncover the real reason the virus is devouring your game.

Unlock weird furniture, customize your SpankStick at the Spankulator 9000, collect rare loot and questionable trophies. Then bring them all home to SPANKR HQ. It’s your customizable clubhouse, your digital bedroom, and your memory vault rolled into one.

Display your secrets. Lovingly spank your unlocked pets. Blast your favorite unlockable songs. Choose your outdoor backgrounds. Visit the Fan Art Gallery (and submit your own). This is your safe space… probably. Just avoid that scary evil demon door in the basement.

Last evaluated Sep 24, 2026
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