Oh look, another derivative runner game. Wait, the FBI made this one and it’s meant to teach teenagers about the signs of extremism? Yes, it’s true. The name of the game is Slippery Slope and it’s part of the FBI’s “Don’t Be A Puppet” program.

Earlier this week Gizmodo wrote an article about this new initiative. According to the FBI website, the website and the program are aimed at teens and is meant to teach them about the dangers of extremism.

It’s called Don’t Be a Puppet: Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism, and the centerpiece is an interactive website at https://cve.fbi.gov that uses activities, quizzes, videos, and other materials to teach teens how to recognize violent extremist messaging and become more resistant to self-radicalization and possible recruitment.

The website is broken into five sections and at the end of it teens receive a certificate of completion. Each section teaches the user something about a extremism, what are the signs, names of various extremist groups, and how they try to recruit people. All of this was done with the best of intentions but by far the strangest part is the game.

Follow the distorted logic of blame that can lead a person into violent extremism.

Players control a goat and are tasked with making it to the finish line, avoiding blocks along the way. Once the player crosses the finish line they’re shown an example of distorted logic, which you can see in the title image. The biggest problem with the game are its controls, each press of the arrow keys sends the goat rocketing off in that direction. It’s not perfect. Other than it being frustrating and hard to control, it feels very out of touch in that “kids are into video gaming” sort of way. I ran through the program myself to see what it was about and the game is little more than a small part of a larger program, so that might explain Slippery Slope‘s lack of polish.

Another thing, when you get to the section with the game the screen shifts over to a desk with this on it.

Yup, that’s a classic Game Boy, what all the hip teens are playing these days.

It’s always a treat to see what the government thinks the kids are into these days, they’ve always been behind the times, now we know exactly of far, 27 years.