Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1999 song Californication is now a free video game

It’s been more than 20 years since the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1999 album Californication it was the first to be released. The title track, thanks to Miquel Camps Orteza, has been transformed into a videogame. Finally!

In 2000, the album’s title track was released as a single, and it came with a music video full of janky, 3D rendered animated scenes that resemble an old PlayStation game. CalifornicationThese scenes are recreated in the video game. However, now you can go through the songs as though they were a video game.

The original music video is a delirious fever dream, with a shirtless character facing bears and chainsaw-wielding maniacs, running through forests and taking a mining car through a mine, and grinding a snowboard on the piping of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. It looks very similar to the original video. The trailer features gameplay that shows characters running through giant boulders and soaring high above cities.

Orteza says that the original game was a challenge for two days and then grew into seven levels with their own settings and mechanics. The game is available for download on Itch.io, and can be played for Windows PCs or macOS.