Popgoes Arcade

About

Popgoes Arcade casts you as a kid playing a retro arcade game called Weasel World. You control Popgoes the Weasel, navigating three zones, a garden, forest, and castle, to battle enemies and collect upgrades from quirky robot animals. The gameplay mixes simple platforming with RPG elements like purchasing power-ups and exploring environments. While the story follows a straightforward quest to overthrow a ruler named King Cultivate, the real hook lies in the game’s oddball charm and its subtle shifts in tone as you dig deeper. What lingers are the strange details hidden in plain sight. A glitchy object in the castle hints at a darker layer, leading to cryptic encounters like a white key and a shadowy figure mimicking a familiar horror game mask. Exploring off-path reveals abandoned areas and a sequence that crashes the game with a surreal animation. Though short and straightforward, the game earned a cult following for its mix of lighthearted absurdity and eerie undertones. Its 7.5/10 Metacritic score reflects a title that’s more memorable for its quirks than its polish.

Storyline

In Weasel World, Popgoes the Weasel goes on a mission to help other garden animals and take back this world from the King Cultivate. In order to do that, he needs to pass through three zones, the garden, the forest and the castle, defeating Kings' followers and buying upgrades from the other Popgoes Animatronics. When King Cultivate is defeated, he calls Popgoes evil and claims, that without Kings' help, they will all starve. When exploring the world, the player can notice a mysterious, glitched object. When the player passes through an invisible entrance to the top of the castle area, they will be able to encounter the glitch, notice a couple of flashing images and get the white key to enter the House area. After entering the house, the player can notice two white characters, one of them saying "Look Dad" with Toy Bonnie's mask on their head. If the player goes through the invisible entrance to the left from the house area, they will pass through the empty areas from the FNaF3 minigames, and meet the mysterious glitch at the end. If it's encountered, a battle with "Bonnie" will start, but after an attack, the game will stop, and the Blackrabbit's hand will come out from the arcade machine, crashing the game. After restarting the game and going back to this area, the glitch will be gone.