Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.
Ninety minutes of deliberate disorientation with a simulation label slapped on it. Push past the confusing first act or bounce off entirely.
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Worth 90 minutes if you want a surreal art piece, not the simulation its genre tag promises.
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About Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.
The first twenty minutes actively work against you. Controls feel loose, the low-poly world gives you almost no wayfinding cues, and the narration talks past you rather than to you. My instinct as someone who wants systems legible within five minutes was to quit. That instinct is wrong here. The disorientation is the design, and once you stop hunting for objectives and start treating the space as something to wander, the dark comedy underneath gets sharp and specific. There is no build order, no economy, no AI to outthink. Calling this Simulation is a genre-tag accident. What you get is roughly 90 minutes of surreal, narrative-driven walking, plus Steam achievements and a multiplayer layer that feels bolted on next to the solo experience. Remote Play Together works if you want a friend confused alongside you. The honest disappointment is depth: nothing rewards a second run, and no mod scene exists to extend it. Judge it as a short art piece and it lands. Judge it as a sim and you will feel cheated.
Strategy & simulation
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Dual Core 2.4Ghz
- Memory
- 8 MB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 750 or higher
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Network
- Broadband Internet connection
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- i7
- Memory
- 16 MB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia GTX 980
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
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Game Info
- Developer
- Jeremy Couillard, Ireneo Mercado
- Publisher
- Akupara Games
- Release Date
- May 22, 2019