May 23, 2023 - Day 143 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 159

Game: Just Die Already

Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 21, 2021
Library Date: Sep 25, 2022
Unplayed: 240d (7m28d)
Playtime: 2h25m

I spent most of today in the hospital for what turned out to be a kidney stone. I'm still in a lot of pain (waiting for it to pass) so I planned to knock out 15 minutes of a game, write up a quick review, head off to bed.

Just Die Already came as part of the September 2022 Humble Choice bundle. It's an "old people mayhem sandbox" game, from the developers of Goat Simulator, a game that did not particularly grab me.

Because it's built on Unreal Engine 4, it's got that same kind of Fortnite graphics feel, that I'm not particularly fond of.

On top of all of that, it's a sandbox game (I think the first one I've reviewed?) and sandbox games just do nothing for me. I need a goal to focus on.

Which is why I was taken aback when I finally quit out and I'd been playing for almost two and a half hours.

As an angry senior citizen who's just been kicked out of their retirement home, you set out to cause ultra-violent gory-but-cartoonish violence everywhere you go.

It's absolutely not a kind of game I'd choose to play, yet it kept me distracted from the pain all evening, which is sometimes exactly what I need from a game.

Just Die Already is:

4: Good (!)

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