My Exercise

A chubby boy’s sit-up routine becomes a strange little ritual in a hand-drawn world where spectators are never quite ordinary. My Exercise is an experimental indie toy more than a conventional challenge-driven game, built around Atsushi Wada’s offbeat animation style and a quiet sense of absurd humor. Its monochrome, sketch-like characters make every movement feel deliberately awkward, tender, and funny. The mood is intimate and mildly surreal, turning a simple exercise into an unexpectedly personal performance.

Players repeatedly guide the boy through sit-ups, using simple inputs to maintain his motion while the scene gradually changes around him. A dog can become part of the interaction, and animals drift in to watch, react, or otherwise complicate the routine in ways best discovered firsthand. There is no combat, sprawling map, or elaborate skill tree; the appeal comes from rhythm, repetition, observation, and poking at the game’s understated secrets. Sessions are short, but the deliberately limited mechanics encourage players to experiment with timing and pay attention to unusual details in the animation.

What separates it from many short indie curiosities is its confidence in being small, odd, and almost wordless. Wada’s animation gives the game the same kind of unsettling-but-gentle charm found in handmade arthouse shorts, while the interaction makes the viewer responsible for the central discomfort. It feels closer to a playful digital art piece than something like a traditional fitness game, though its physical repetition gives it a peculiar tactile rhythm. My Exercise suits players who enjoy games such as Katamari Damacy’s oddball spirit, WarioWare’s microgame simplicity, or the surreal animation of Noby Noby Boy, and it is especially welcoming for newcomers who want a brief experience with personality rather than a demanding mechanical test.