Time Flies is about a bug finding god or learning guitar in something like 76.4 seconds, and it’s got a release date

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Time Flies, the latest wonderfully weird game from Swiss devs Playables, will turn you into a fly. I mean, the clue was in the name. You live for a matter of seconds every playthrough, and in that time, you’ve got a bug bucket list of stuff you can do.

You’d better not screw around. Or you’d better get on with screwing around. Either way, this cool cousin/sibling to the equally bizarre Kids and My Exercise is coming out on PC July 31st.

“Make the best of the time you have left, because we’re all going to die,” reads Time Flies’ Steam description. It’s not wrong. It’s hand-drawn world has “delightfully accurate fly physics”, “numerous intriguing ways to die”, and “grimly variable life expectancy based on player location”.

If you want more info on that last part, artist and director Michael Frei explained in a PS Blog that how long a playthrough of the game lasts depends on what average life expectancy according to the World Health Organization is in your region of the world. For example, if you’re in the US, the game’ll register that figure to be 76.4 years and give you 76.4 seconds to play before your fly dies. So, it looks like those of us in the UK’ll be getting about 80.1 seconds.

In that time, you can accomplish bucket list goals by doing everything from getting drunk, to learning an instrument, to making someone laugh, to reading a book. Or you can try to find god, something Frei discusses in that blog post. Or you can just roll with it.

“What to do in this world before you die? That is a difficult question to answer,” Frei wrote, “Luckily, the game contains a list of things for you to do. All you need to do is figure out how to do them, and then do them all within one lifetime. It might seem impossible at first, but you can die trying, and eventually you’ll get the hang of it. It is a game about life, but you get many chances.”

Sounds equally filled with fun and existential dread to me, and I’ll definitely be adding it to my list of things to do before I eventually expire, likely just before getting to the DLC in my millionth Fallout New Vegas playthrough.