Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition
Gritfish · 2016 · Indie, Adventure, LGBTQ+, Text-Based, Visual Novel
PC
Very Positive80% · 135
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About Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition
You never know what the last thing you say to someone will be.
On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and moves further and further away from home, the delay between sending messages and their arrival lengthens. What feels like minutes on the ship is hours, days, weeks, even years back on Earth. Each refresh of the timeline is a tiny window into the past. What will you do in those precious few moments as the lives of everyone you know pass by?
A critically acclaimed work of interactive fiction, Killing Time at Lightspeed allows players to experience life aboard a spaceship hurtling through lightspeed. Just how much can you affect other people's lives with your fleeting interactions through social media? And will it be for the better?
On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and moves further and further away from home, the delay between sending messages and their arrival lengthens. What feels like minutes on the ship is hours, days, weeks, even years back on Earth. Each refresh of the timeline is a tiny window into the past. What will you do in those precious few moments as the lives of everyone you know pass by?
A critically acclaimed work of interactive fiction, Killing Time at Lightspeed allows players to experience life aboard a spaceship hurtling through lightspeed. Just how much can you affect other people's lives with your fleeting interactions through social media? And will it be for the better?
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Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition, developed by Gritfish and published by Green Stripe Snake, is a short but striking work of interactive fiction that uses a deceptively simple concept to explore isolation, time, and the emotional consequences of a hyperconnected world. It begins with an elegantly simple setup—you are a passenger on a spacecraft traveling at near-light speed, bound for a distant colony. What seems like a routine journey of minutes or hours for you translates into decades and centuries back on Earth due to the effects of relativity. As you sit in your cabin, the only link to home is a social media feed, where the lives of your friends and loved ones continue to unfold long after you’ve departed. The result is an experience that feels deeply human, melancholic, and quietly unsettling. The game’s entire narrative unfolds through a simulated interface resembling a social platform. There are no traditional movement mechanics or complex systems—your interaction is limited to scrolling, reading, and occasionally reacting to posts. But within this simplicity lies its brilliance. The social feed becomes your only window into the world you’ve left behind, and as …3 found this helpful
The way the game distances you from both the people you knew and the world you ran away from... That is brilliant.
I love the concept art. Shame none of it is in-game. It's like doom scrolling in the real world on a DOS computer.
This small narrative really shows how something not complex can deliver many feelings
Very thought provoking concept.
Wonderful
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