Time Flies is a short meditation on the meaning of life

I didn't expect a brief game about flies to make me emotional. But when I finished Time Flies, I nearly began to cry.

Time Flies initially seems very silly. You play as a little buzzing fly that has to try and accomplish a bucket list of tasks before it, well, kicks the bucket, something that happens in a matter of seconds. The tasks are vague, with titles like "Just Roll with It" or "Meet Your Biggest Fan," and the goal of the game is to zip around each level, generally cause mischief to complete the tasks, and finish an entire stage's bucket list to move on to the next one. (Naturally, the last task of each list involves dying in some way …

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