June 30, 2023 - Day 181 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 200

Game: Everything

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Apr 22, 2017
Library Date: Oct 28, 2017
Unplayed: 2071d (5y8m2d)
Playtime: 35m

Everything is... look, I genuinely don't know quite how to describe this "game". I just wanted something simple to knock over in 15 minutes, and I chose Everything.

If nothing else, the name of the game lends itself to all kinds of wordplay I'd love to engage if I wasn't so exhausted.

I guess I can stop doing these reviews, now that I've played Everything.

See?

Anyway, Everything is, apparently, a simulation.

In Everything you can become... everything. Anything. Everything in Everything becomes a playable character.

Other things talk to you. There are also snippets of lectures from a "philosophical entertainer" named Alan Watts.

This is the weirdest game I've played this year, and I'm not even entirely sure it IS a game.

There are things that really annoyed me about the control scheme, but then there are surreal, trippy visuals that did my head in.

I have a nice neat spectrum that I've been able to fit every game I've played so far this year into, and then this.

I'm going to take the easy way out, because thinking is hard right now.

Everything is:

3: OK

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