Finally, a video game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a world famous tattoo artist! And a terrible one at that! No, I never claimed to be a good artist or even a mediocre one. For real tattoo artists, one must be professional and precise, which was not the case at all when I played 10 Second Tattoo.
In 10 Second Tattoo, you are tasked with giving your customers the tattoo of their dreams, but you have just 10 seconds to do so. Can you deliver? Probably not, and that’s what makes 10 Second Tattoo so much fun: inking out terribly awful tattoos (is terribly awful an oxymoron?). 10 Second Tattoo really taps into all of the fun of getting a tattoo but with none of the regret, but with all of the shame. Or with some of the shame, with a hint of despair. With 10 second tattoo, your terrible tattoo choices can be made from the safety of your home, and not entrusted to some drunken Montreal tattoo artist. Seriously, don’t drink and tattoo. Not even once.
Either way, each reset of the game presents you with a random (and awful) tattoo design idea, presumably straight from your imaginary client who is prone to such terrible ideas and (probably) life choices. You, as the tattoo artist, must do your best which, in 10 seconds, usually results in hilarious disaster.
10 Second Tattoo is actually a fan game of Jenny Jiao Hsia‘s Morning Makeup Madness which employs the same concept except instead of ruining your face with makeup, you can disfigure yourself permanently from the safety of your computer screen. Check out the game play video for a closer look at the madness:
Developer: Burgess Voshell
Play it in your browser on Game Jolt or download it for Windows or Mac OS