ENA: Dream BBQ is a free indie puzzle/exploration Adventure Game that acts as the second season of the Web Animation series ENA. You take on the role of ENA, a girl with an asymmetrical body and two different personalities, as she explores her surreal world, encounters bizarre characters, and takes on side gigs while she searches for "the Boss that everyone wants to be".

The game was first teased on March 25th, 2021, and was revealed to be an interactive short rather than just an animation in September of that year. Initially intended to be released in December of 2022, the scope grew larger until it was split into multiple chapters and the release was delayed by several years (with an additional episode of ENA season 1, "Power of Potluck", being released to help bridge the gap). The first chapter, "Lonely Door", was released on March 27th, 2025.

"Bathroom"? You must be talking about the tropes, true?

• Ability Required to Proceed: If you help the Shaman, he will give you a head, which can create temporary bridges. On this route, this is necessary to leave Uncanny Streets.
• Alien Sea: The starting island has a sea of blood in which disembodied legs swim.
• Alien Sky: All areas which ENA traverses have weird skies that cannot be explained:
  • The Vivarium's sky, the Hub World casino island on which ENA starts on, is heavily pixelated with a gigantic eye that is staring right at the island.
  • Uncanny Streets appears like a regular desert with a blue sky, until one notices that the the sky is actually an upside-down maze of canyons which ENA goes through on one of the paths.
• Ascended Meme: One of the witches says "We should go home....I am allergic to persons...", and the other says that she got the reference, referring to how the phrase from "Temptation Stairway" got popular.
  • One of ENA's animations (rotating her bust and arm 360 degrees to give a thumbs-up) is from a popular gif of a glitch WWE referee.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Very nearly happens to ENA when she meets the Genie at the end of "Lonely Door", but it changes its mind when it notices that it's an ENA trying to ascend and instead decides to just grant her one wish.
• As You Know: In the prologue, ENA is a bit confused why is she looking for the Boss and asks Froggy to "review the job description".
• The Backwards Я: ENA's name is stylized as ƎNA in trailers and the game's logo, matching up with how the original ENA sometimes had her name written that way. Some characters also spell it this way in-game, although much like everything else with regard to ENA's name this is much less than consistent.
• Bilingual Dialogue: ENA speaks English throughout the game, while multiple other characters speak in different languages. Froggy, ENA's Mission Control, speaks Japanese, Coral Glasses speaks Korean, and so on.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Season 1 was largely bloodless and harm that came to the characters was generally done in a cartoony manner the characters quickly recovered from. Dream BBQ features blood as a more frequent sight (such as an ocean of it and blood coming out of a wall in one of the earliest areas, though the latter is stated to be strictly aesthetic), one of the items, the "Humanboard", explodes into gory chunks after you recall it, and while she isn't very inconvenienced by it, ENA ends up with a gaping hole in her torso when she enters the Core.
• Call-Back:
  • Froggy remarks that whoever's causing the smoke, they're likely the kind of person to smoke bananas, a topic that Gabo briefly brings up in "Temptation Stairway."
  • One of the witches says she wants to go home because she's "allergic to persons," with the other noting that she got the reference. This referring to ENA in "Temptation Stairway" asking if she and Moony can leave.
  • One of the Vending Machine's bits of incidental dialogue after selling to ENA has them apologize for not selling turrón. In Temptation Stairway, that ENA met a merchant who did sell turrón.
• Cast of Snowflakes: Like with the web shorts, with the exception of coral legs and blob NPCs, every character has a completely unique personality, physiology and artstyle. It appears that "entity" is used as general term to refer to people.
• Catchphrase: ENA has the habit of saying "Bless you for your business" after completing any job/quest.
• Chain of Deals: The Ascension route features one. In order to get the Shaman's help, you need to "get a LIFE" from the Witches, but they're unwilling to help since one of them went missing looking for the Bathroom on her own. It turns out she went through the bridge that Hoarder Alex has declared ownership of, and he only promises to maybe let ENA through if she can block the nearby Watcher from staring at him, which requires Mayonnaise which can be found at the Vending Machine for 10 Chocolates. In order to get the Chocolates, ENA has to find Shoryo's babies/pets/food. Doing all of this rewards you with the Humanboard. However, you can cut out collecting the pets and the mayo by waiting for a few minutes instead of reviving Alex or getting past the bridge some other way. Meanwhile, the Purge Event route is comparatively more simple only requiring ENA to find the Taxi Driver's head, but she won't have the Humanboard to get across the river in the Core.
• Colour-Coded Emotions: ENA's emotions correlate to a certain color for each side: red means her "Salesperson" side and pale is her "Meanie" side.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • ENA classic was split between a somewhat loopy Nice Girl and a perpetually sobbing, self-hating wreck. BBQ ENA's "positive" side is much more self-interested than Happy ENA, while her negative side is angry with others rather than sad for herself. BBQ ENA also seems more in tune with her two sides than ENA classic, as while the latter struggles a lot with her Sad side and at one point, almost getting rid of it, BBQ ENA's sides seem to work well together toward a goal, making her come across as a charming smooth-talker but also assertive and not willing to put up with people's nonsense.
  • While Moony was a 2D character and was quite rude and chaotic, the new ENA's friend Froggy is a low polygonal being who's a lot more focused.
  • ENA and Moony's escapades almost exclusively consisted of various hangouts, parties, or similar social events with no indication of either having a life outside idle socialization. The new ENA and Froggy are instead coworkers at a nebulous job who are focused on working, to the point ENA constantly finds new jobs to fulfill as she searches for the Boss. ENA even bemoans that she's too work-focused to be at the Purge Event, the very kind of social venue the former protagonists regularly frequented.
• Cosmic Keystone: Every Door needs a genie within them for the world to properly operate. If they do not have one, they will be inaccessible from the outside until a new one is found. Inside the door, when the powers of a dying genie finally wear off, the world falls apart into increasingly simple geography.
• Darker and Edgier: While Season 1 was no stranger to dark implications or Surprisingly Creepy Moments, Dream BBQ noticeably turns up the Surreal Horror near the end of "Lonely Door", and is full of symbolism that heavily implies there's a dark truth behind all the colorful absurdity.
• Deadly Euphemism: No matter how he dies, ENA claims when examining Horder Alex's body he is in an "uninterruptable slumber".
• Developer's Foresight:
  • Completing quests by getting the item/doing the action before talking to the quest giver has unique dialogue in a number of cases.
  • During the introductory cutscene for Hoarder Alex, he gets so flustered by ENA that he ends up passing out, with a prompt asking the player to press a button to revive him. ...Or you can not press anything for several minutes, and Hoarder Alex will just die then and there on the spot, allowing you to bypass his entire sidequest, giving you the achievement "Bad Samaritan".
  • If you use some creative parkour to reach the other side of the bridge without interacting with Hoarder Alex at all, he will get blasted like he does at the end of his quest, allowing you to use the bridge to return to the mainland.
• Easy Level Trick:
  • Hoarder Alex's quest, and the other side quests necessary to complete it in turn, can be skipped by jumping across the river using one of the small islands.
  • Finding the head of the taxi driver is made much simpler with a hidden shortcut. Crawl into their empty sleeve and you will transported right next to the head in the cave.
• Enslaved Tongue: Once someone is within the Lonely Door, every time they tries to say "Genie", it gets forcefully overwritten by the word "Bathroom". It's not just through the fourth wall either, since Froggy gets annoyed by ENA apparently looking for the bathroom when she's supposed to find the Genie. Fittingly, the genie is hidden within a massive port-a-potty.
• Expository Gameplay Limitation: You cannot interact with any objects, use abilities, or jump while on the phone, which prevents you from leaving certain rooms until the exposition is over. You can however hang up at any time by pausing the game and holding the skip cutscene key.
• Fantastic Flora: The Board Member, the life the Shaman is able to create for ENA. It is a disembodied head which can be "planted" in specific fertile ground to grow a long, stretchy body to be used as a staircase. It can be recalled by tapping bones together, or by going far enough away from it, which causes it's body to messily explode and the head to return.
• Fantastic Racism: Several NPCs express their hatred and distrust of ENAs.
• Fetch Quest: The game is structured in a way that ENA has to look up items for the NPCs, something she is happy to obliged with, in exchange for another key item and so on.
• Floating Limbs: Even more than the original ENA, the new ENA has floating arms, head, and now her torso. One shot in the full trailer even shows her carrying around her white arm in her other hand for some reason. The destroyed version of ENA meanwhile doesn't even have arms and tends to float around chaotically, disconnected from her body.
• Forced Transformation: During the Purge Event route, ENA is transformed into a strange walking fish-like creature wearing her hat. She has to navigate a maze of similar creatures before being turned back once she's devoured by a larger creature.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In The Stinger, there's a single frame where ENA's Mannequin transforms into Season 1 ENA.
• The Ghost: ENA and Froggy are searching for The Boss, but the only information about them is that they reside somewhere on a different island beyond the smoke. The conversations imply they are "the boss" of everyone, including the Genies. Yet many entities declare that they are the Boss as an introduction, only to get immediately dismissed by ENA.
• Gotta Catch Them All:
  • Shoryo gives you a quest to find his four pets/babies/meals, which have gone missing.
  • The Supporter Edition has 14 Hourglass Dogs that unlock behind-the-scenes content from during the development of the game.
• Hated by All: No one has any respect for ENA, frequently interjecting about how much they don't like her or how they're specifically not giving her access to something because she's ENA. Theodora flat-out says that no one deserves to be punished for being born, except for ENA.
• Hub Level: The Vivarium, a large casino submerged in a blood lake. It's where ENA starts her journey, gets context for her goal, and the island in the far distance of the Vivarium's world is her final stop. The numerous Doors scattered around the Vivarium serve as access points to the main location of each chapter.
• Humanity Ensues: ENA briefly takes on a much more humanoid appearance in the Zone before finding the bathroom. Her limbs are all connected, she's got proper fingers on each hand, her face is one piece and one color. But unlike most examples of this trope it's not really a good thing because she's also got a gaping hole in her torso and she talks like she's severely hungover. After leaving, we see a POV shot of her flailing arms going back to "normal" (for ENA.)
• In Place of an Eye: Coral Glasses has a gigantic, yellow reef coral growing out of her right eye.
• Interface Screw: To make the parkour across the white river to the Bathroom more challenging, a disoriented, ill ENA's vision begins to sway and double the moment she jumps onto the first platform.
• It Kind of Looks Like a Face: Dratula appears to the The Blank, but has a post-it note taped to their head with Japanese writing arranged to look like a face.
• Kill It with Ice: Several NPCs are shown frozen solid and seemingly dead in blocks of ice on the climb up to the entrance to Theodora's world, claimed by the freezing winds.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Hoarder Alex spends majority of his interactions with ENA angrily ranting about her or other people, then tells her he'll consider letting her cross his bridge if she covers the eyes of a Watcher who keeps staring at him. Even when ENA goes out of her way to help him, he refuses to let her cross the bridge and laughs at her for the mere thought. The Watcher he had her cover the eyes of then annihilates him with an eye laser that burns him to a crisp.
• Masquerading As the Unseen: Several NPCs, such as Dratula and Kane, will declare themselves the Boss when interacted with for the first time, only to get called out and/or admit it isn't true immediately afterwards.
• Medium Blending: Like the original animations, the game has a blend of 2D and 3D environments, sequences, and characters.
• Mind Screwdriver: This game actually helps explain the world of the short animations, establishing Doors, Genies, and that the area in "Auction Day" is what happens when a Genie leaves its Door world.
• Morton's Fork:
  • Crossing the bridge involves Hoarder Alex dying, either by being blasted with the Watcher's eye lasers or refusing to revive him.
  • The taxi to the Purge Event is always crushed in both routes. Creating the Humanboard has it crushed by some hooligan offscreen and in the way to the event it ends up crushed by some rubble from the opposite side of Uncanny Valley.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: While ENA is helpful at taking and completing jobs, whether directly or indirectly, it also creates destructive results. Such as helping the Shaman causes the Seal House to be blown up and the Taxi crushed, helping the Witches results in buildings being destroyed, Hoarder Alex falling in an 'uninterruptible sleep' to ultimately causing Uncanny Streets to decay by shutting off the smoke machine.
• Non-Standard Character Design: A fairly hilarious example that only makes sense in this series. In a world full of abstract and weird beings, the Shaman sticks out by looking like a normal old man in a wizard robe from an Animation Magic game.
• Nostalgia Level: The final area of Episode 1 is the same area from Auction Day, complete with the talking gravestones from the same short. Given the nature of said environment being the result of Uncanny Street's Genie leaving, causing it to seemingly decay, this has ominous implications about the context of the original Auction Day short.
• Our Monsters Are Different: The Wanderers, native creatures of Uncanny Streets are incredibly bizarre. They are large, flying pyramids with the head of a snake on the front and a hippo on the back, and tendrils all over it. They also constantly broadcast robotic news as they fly around.
• Overly Long Gag: Several achievements are given for doing something mundane for an annoying amount of time.
  • Wait close to ten minutes on the revive screen for Hoarder Alex for him to fully expire.
  • One Easter Egg encounter is with a gorilla named Nonkey Jong, who has over nine minutes of pointless dialogue if you continue talking to him. There's an achievement called "Patient Listener" which requires you to listen to all of it.
  • In the Lost Village, interact with every house except the correct one which allows you to continue onward. The entire process will take close to five-ten minutes of mundane door knocking.
  • For the Supporter Edition, for an hourglass dog, you have to wait for 10 minutes for a cloud to come down.
  • Another hourglass dog is revealed by sitting in a confessional booth in the bathroom for 5 minutes.
• Pietà Plagiarism: The release date trailer for "Lonely Door" ends with ENA cradling the Board Member in this pose.
• Repetitive Name: Taski Maiden's name. Taski means "girl" in Quechua, so her name translates to Girl Girl.
• Retraux: Like the series, the game is trying to emulate the visual style of LSD: Dream Emulator, including the rough late 90s graphics.
• Running Gag:
  • None of the NPCs can pronounce ENA's name correctly, and some add letters outright.
  • Almost every NPC introduces themself as the Boss, which ENA summarily dismisses.
• Sapient House: The Seal House has moving hands, a seal head, and explodes into gore when the Shaman's spell is complete, indicating it was in some form alive.
• Shout-Out:
  • The pose ENA strikes in the opening cutscene's "ƎNA IS SEARCHING FOR THE BOSS!" pop-up is a reference to one seen in Yellow Magic Orchestra's TAISO music video. Additionally, one of her entrance poses is a shot for shot imitation of Takuya Yamashiro's Spider-Man pose from the Toei series.
  • ENA's animation when accepting a job and stating "Time to get to work!" is taken from a memetic gif of a glitched referee animation from one of the WWE Video Games.
  • Dratula's name and way of talking is clearly a reference to Dracula. Meanwhile, his appearance looks like Count Orlok.
  • Dratula's outfit is styled after the illustration of Dracula used on the cover of the Mystery Kindaichi Band LP, a song from which was previously used for one of Dream BBQ's trailers.
  • Coral Glasses is a visual ringer for Kanamori Sayaka from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!.
  • The Receptionist at one point tells ENA to “Come back when [she’s] richer”.
  • The Shaman is styled to look like a character from an Animation Magic game, specifically their infamous The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games.
  • The description for the "Pets Come Home..." quest references a famous 1998 Chili's ad for their Baby Back Ribs, which also acts as additional Foreshadowing that Shoryo plans to eat the Pets you bring him.
  • Nonkey Jong is an extremely blatant reference to Donkey Kong, as if the name wasn't an immediate giveaway.
  • At the Purge Event, there is an NPC, Heh-Ito, who looks like a Super Sentai team member.
  • One of the lines of the Wanderers, "The enourmous egg that holds a doll in the mother's womb.", is taken from Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Rap Phenomena".
• The Stinger: Waiting until after the credits are over plays a short cutscene with Froggy and Dratula having an argument before one of the mannequins glitches out and and morphs into ENA, and Froggy chastises her for goofing off on the job.
• Story Branching: "Lonely Door" has two routes depending on if you help the Shaman or the Taxi Driver. Another pair of routes appears at the river. Successfully reaching the Bathroom leads you to the Genie in the well. Falling into the river or getting spit on by the NPC on the other side leads you to the broken Genie instead.
• Surprisingly Creepy Moment: While talking to Taski Maiden, at one point the music cuts out and the background disappears as she randomly transforms into some kind of eldritch blob with six legs and tells you that you must be punished for the sins of others... before turning back to normal and laughing because it was just a joke.
• Tin-Can Telephone: At various points a red plastic cup with a string would appear in front of ENA through which she's able to talk with Froggy and chat about their job, with him largely chastising her for getting distracted. You can also use it to call other characters if you enter their phone number while standing in certain areas.
• Torso with a View: A much more humanoid version of ENA appears, after the exclusive segments for the different routes, with her most unusual feature being a giant hole burned all the way through her stomach. A more traditional looking, wireframe ENA crawls out of it to speak.
• The Unblinking: Played with. ENA actually has a chance to blink... specifically, a 50% chance to do so once every six hours of continuous play. Witnessing it is required for an achievement. Thankfully, the chance is much higher when she's in her more humanlike form in the empty area outside of the Bathroom, having a chance to happen every six minutes instead.
• Unnaturally Looping Location: The location at the game's opening will loop endlessly if you continue running in any one direction. The only way out is sleeping in the bed that's near the lanterns. However, you can find some Easter Eggs if you loop around a few times and explore a little.
• Video Game Cruelty Potential: At one point in "Lonely Door", Hoarder Alex will fall over dead in his blind rage with you having the option to revive him. If you sit there for about seven minutes without doing anything, he'll die for real and you can skip his sidequest.
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Inverted with Hoarder Alex — if you stand there and let him die after he collapses, you don't have to do his Fetch Quest. You even get an achievement for doing this!
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?: It's unclear what ENA and Froggy's job entails, as their goal is to find the Boss for something. The Vivarium has a series of slots in the Receptionist's room, and slots appear in the top left corner of the screen to mark ENA's progress on jobs, but ENA herself appears to mostly go around solving peoples' problems even before entering the Lonely Door, while Froggy implies she tends to run "prism schemes" on people.
• Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Several characters exist without fundamental body parts. Floating legs live like fish in the blood ocean of the Vivarium. The Horse Door does not have a head. Despite having a lower half in the posters advertising the Purge Event, Bunrako-man has no legs and is held up by a puppeteer
• Wizard Classic: The Shaman looks like a generic wizard with a white beard and moon and star-decorated robes.
• You Are Too Late: After turning off the smoke machine, the world of the Lonely Door starts falling apart and Froggy warns you that you have to get out before you're trapped. By the time you reach the exit, it's too late and the door will already be closed (it doesn't matter how fast you go, it's always too slow), and ENA is turned into a mannequin as the chapter ends.
• You Don't Look Like You: A variation: since Season 2 has planned a new direction with the main protagonists, the teaser for "Dream BBQ" features ENA with a multi-color body of red/pale blue/pale yellow motif instead of her usual dual blue/yellow one, with concept art this tweet by Joel showcasing a "jagged/webbed" duality instead of "blocky/smooth". Since "Temptation Stairway" confirms the existence of multiple ENAs, it's implied that this one is not the same ENA from Season 1.