Fan Game 'Snoot' Affectionately Parodies 'Goodbye Volcano High' As A Heartfelt Visual Novel

At last year's Sony live-stream event where they unveiled the PS5 and previewed some upcoming games, the internet's eyes were drawn to Goodbye Volcano High, an animated drama starring a largely queer cast of anthropomorphic dinosaurs in their final year of high school.

The game quickly became a laughing stock online, particularly on 4chan's /v/ board, for a myriad of reasons: it was criticized for looking too similar to Night In The Woods, for seeming to reek of "art school" pretentiousness and for using its queerness as a marketing talking point. Also, its creator, Kate Gray, once included uncensored stills from a Harry Potter porn game on Kotaku, which made Goodbye Volcano High all the more target for mockery.

For most of the internet, the backlash died down after the initial reveal, but the game continued to be a source of jokes on /v/. Meanwhile, some /v/ anons, unbeknownst to the rest of the community, had begun work on a Goodbye Volcano High visual novel parody of the game: Snoot.

In Snoot, the player is a human character appropriately named Anon attending the Goodbye Volcano High dinosaur high school. What follows seems to be pretty standard visual novel fare: Anon is trying to keep his head down and just get through school as uneventfully as possible but the colorful cast of characters breaks him out of his shell.

While parody games are usually a dime-a-dozen, Snoot grew noteworthy on /v/ for not only satirizing Goodbye Volcano High, but also for being very good. Online, the reactions have been very positive among players—albeit with a healthy dose of renewed mockery on the original Goodbye Volcano High game.

more than just a dream#Snootgame #artshare #art #artwork #ArtistOnTwitter #Memes pic.twitter.com/Nul2szO00q

— Yakko (@YakkoKatto) June 22, 2021

I just finished #SnootGame with ending 3. I won’t spoil anything, but I really loved it.

— Nate (@NatePT) June 28, 2021

Meanwhile, there's still no news on when the actual Goodbye Volcano High is coming out, though it is rumored the dev Discord has banned talk of Snoot.