{
  "id": 14306317,
  "title": "Send in the Clown is a turn-based RPG comedy about fighting one annoying child at a birthday party where there's only one fight in the whole game",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/send-in-the-clown-is-a-turn-based-rpg-comedy-about-fighting-one",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-13T21:54:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/send-in-the-clown-is-a-turn-based-rpg-comedy-about-fighting-one-annoying-child-at-a-birthday-party-where-theres-only-one-fight-in-the-whole-game"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I generally find it quite frustrating how limited the medium of games insists on being when it comes to engaging in a wide breadth of genres. One particular genre that its filmmaking cousin frequently utilises but is rarely seen within games is comedy. Sure, occasionally a game makes an attempt at telling a joke within a cutscene (failing more often than not (comedy's hard!)), but rarely is it a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}