HeatStroke

Good but brutal on the hands (3h at 100wpm with only 7 minutes' breaktime; you get 16 minutes total) so play it when you're ready for a marathon and with a litre of water next to you. Short story is fascinating & memorable & having to type it out makes me remember it even better. Tip for the driving: [spoiler]the wheel autorotates so if you simply click it bottom left it'll automatically drive you to the left as the wheel spins back before you start drifting right again. Saves you a lot of driving time as you can just write instead and occasionally click the wheel.[/spoiler]

As a psychology/philosophy major and an aspiring writer, this is one of my favorite game/experiences/books/whatever you wanna call it ever. Briefly and without spoiling anything important, this book features a bioengineer who gets recruited to help preserve the richest man in the world's brain after getting brain cancer. It very quickly becomes so much more than that. I'm personally a fan of fantasy because science fiction turns me off, one of the biggest contributors to that being sci-fi BS jargon that writers expect people to just believe but the author doesn't try to shove neuroscience that not even neuroscientists understand in your face. The stuff it does go over is limited but either believable or correct Very well written. Perfectly paced. At times, I thought that it was going a little too fast and skipping over some important details but I realized quickly how wrong I was. While this story absolutely feels like a slog that takes an eternity as you're playing it, the story itself is incredibly concise. Everything included is there for a reason and they really made sure to cut out as much as they could and keep all the best parts. Fundamentally, this game is a masterfully crafted thought experiment. My best comparison is Dostoyevsky. While at first glance it seems incredibly disjunctive to wrap a lazy texting and driving simulator with no saves around a book that can't be found anywhere else, the gameplay somehow wraps it all together. It puts you in the mood. It forces you to linger. It puts you on edge. It fills you with despair of the constant but slow onslaught of time. Everything in this has been purposefully made to expertly provoke existential ideas that have very strong philosophical grounds. I strongly recommend this to everyone who plays games, even if you hate it the whole time you play. Games are fundamentally experiences. All that you are in this world is the experiences you have that turn you into the person you are. This experience is worth adding to your life. It took me about 6 hours to play through it in the one sitting it demands, and I took a good amount of breaks by ignoring the typing, driving the car, and talking to my friends in call. Grab some snacks, drinks, and DON'T pause the game for more than 15 minutes. This will be an awful experience but you'll come out better for it.

drinking while driving < writing while driving

wish it was harder

im truly impressed that this game, where you spend the majority of it typing and the rest making sure you dont swerve towards your untimely death, was able to captivate me as much as it did. originally struggling to engage with the concept to finally understanding why HeatStroke was made to be like this was an incredibly satisfying and well worth it endeavor. i spent all my pause time on making a smoothie. it didnt taste good and it was probably the reason why i missed out on the under 3 hour little tree. so truthfully im left with a bitter aftertaste but whatever, good story

Interesting take on the Desert Bus variety of game. Not as grueling as you would expect what with the shorter completion time (I took about 3hrs45mins) and the typing game keeping you awake but I still think it was a worthy successor. Story was interesting too but I don't want to spoil that so I'll just say it gets unhinged really quickly after a point. Bring some friends along so you have people to discuss it with! Oh and don't make the same mistake I did and drive on the oncoming lane too much. Lost to that stunt about 40 minutes in

Game randomly stole all of my pause time and i crashed in [spoiler] part 11 [/spoiler] after 4 1/2 hours. 10/10 excited to do it all again