"So long as I manage to avoid lightbulbs or stay out of wine glasses, the buzzing will inevitably give way to silence. My wings will abruptly stop flapping and I'll careen towards the ground like an asteroid. I'll become a speck on a rug, a bit of debris absent-mindedly vacuumed up by someone who has no idea what adventures I've been on in the past minute."
"Before I get to buzz around, I'm asked to pick what country I'm in. That answer determines how long my fly's lifespan is based on the average human life expectancy rate of the country selected, translated from years to seconds. If I set my location to Japan, I'll be able to live for 84.5 seconds. If I pick Chad, I'm basically choosing to play on hard mode as I'll only have 59.1 seconds to fulfill my dreams."
Time Flies is a minimalist insect life sim releasing July 31 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC. Players control a housefly with only seconds to complete a bucket list of tasks before dying. Choosing a country sets the fly's lifespan by converting that nation's average human life expectancy from years to seconds, altering difficulty. Tasks include making friends, learning an instrument, and getting drunk, requiring careful time management with simple flying controls. The game evokes Minit's sixty-second gameplay while framing a poignant meditation on mortality and making the most of a brief life.
Read at Polygon
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