The demise of a housefly is normally an unceremonious occasion. Inside minutes of the insect’s look in our periphery, a tide of annoyance rises, and with the fast thwap of a swatter or rolled-up journal, the bug is gone. Time Flies, a perception-warping bug puzzler, reimagines this inevitably brief lifespan as an absurd tragedy – by offering the soon-to-perish pest with a bucket checklist.
Over the course of roughly a minute, gamers freely buzz round minimalist 2D environments in an effort to make these final needs come true. The fly’s desires arrive as imprecise, far-ranging clues corresponding to “make somebody snort”, “discover God”, “begin a revolution” and “get wealthy”, and it’s your job to ricochet across the area till you land, typically actually, on a clarifying and normally humorous realisation. Just like Coal Supper’s satirical side-scroller, Thank Goodness You’re Right here!, Time Flies depends wholly on experimentation and instinct to grasp the world round you, fairly than specific quest markers or information dumps.
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