🧟‍♂️ Ben and Ed (2015)

The zombie obstacle course you probably forgot existed


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Lets start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

🎬 Trailers

The trailer for Ben and Ed promised pure absurdity: a zombie forced to run a deadly obstacle course for the amusement of a dystopian audience. Lasers, buzzsaws, bottomless pits — and a lot of limb-flinging chaos. Think Takeshi’s Castle if the contestants were undead.


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📖 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

You play as Ed, a zombie who gets shoved into a sadistic TV show called “Rundead.” Why? Because his human buddy Ben is being held hostage, and the only way to save him is to survive a carnival of neon-colored death traps. It’s as stupid as it sounds — and that’s the point.


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🎭 Character Rundown

Ed – Our unlucky zombie protagonist. His limbs pop off like detachable action figure parts, but he keeps trudging forward.

Ben – Ed’s friend, more of a prize than a person here. He exists so the devs could justify the title “Ben and Ed.”

The Rundead Audience – Creepy children with paper bags over their heads, cheering while Ed is minced like coleslaw. Honestly, more disturbing than the gore.



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⏱️ Pacing / Episode Flow

Levels escalate from simple jumps to absolute chaos: conveyor belts with saw blades, swinging axes, laser grids, and platforming that will make you ragequit. It’s trial-and-error hell — the kind of game that’s fun to stream but soul-crushing to play for hours straight.


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✅ Pros

Unique concept. A zombie obstacle course game is so weird it kind of rules.

Gory slapstick. Losing a leg or throwing your own head to solve puzzles is disgusting and hilarious.

Atmosphere. The neon, carnival-like stages feel twisted but memorable.



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❌ Cons

Clunky controls. Precision platforming is tough when your character moves like a shopping cart with three wheels.

Repetition. After a while, it’s just sawblades and lasers over and over again.

Frustration factor. The trial-and-error design will test your patience more than your skills.

Story? What story? Ben could’ve been a cardboard cutout and nothing would change.



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💭 Final Thoughts

So, who here remembers Ben and Ed? Unless you’re a masochist or you watched Markiplier back in the day, probably no one. It’s weird, it’s gory, it’s frustrating, and it’s one of those games that’s more fun to watch someone else suffer through than to play yourself.


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⭐ Rating

6/10. Ben and Ed is a strange, occasionally hilarious little experiment. Not a great game, but definitely an unforgettable oddity if you ever stumble across it.


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⚠️ Spoilers

The big “plot twist” is that after all of Ed’s effort, saving Ben doesn’t actually matter — because Ben betrays him. Once Ed makes it through the gauntlet of buzzsaws and lasers, Ben uses him for the amusement of the audience, sending him into one last stage that’s designed to destroy him. Ed fights his way through, only to meet his doom in true bleak fashion.

It’s less of a story and more of a cruel punchline: the system was always rigged, and Ed never had a chance. Which, to be fair, is pretty fitting for a rage platformer like this.