PC, PS4, Xbox One (version tested), Switch; Curve Digital
Indulge a guilty pleasure as your ageing character flails around collecting knives, bombs and basketballs while avoiding electrocution and hungry sharks
Six years ago, a game that allowed you to control a wild goat as it caused havoc around a quiet suburb became an unexpected smash hit. Benefiting immensely from the patronage of YouTubers and Twitch streamers, Goat Simulator was essentially a global comedy platform, a ridiculous experiment in participatory slapstick. Now the creator of that game, Armin Ibrisagic, is back with a similar exercise in open-world, physics-based farce – only this time the protagonists are misbehaving old people with scores to settle against society.
Just Die Already begins with your escape from a prison-like care home, and, from that point on, everything that happens is entirely up to you. Just like Goat Simulator, you’re provided with an open world filled with civilians, destructible scenic items and various objects to pick up, throw or eat. The city setting is garishly drawn in cartoon primary colours, cars plummeting around its narrow streets, smashing into each other and everything else, people wandering about aimlessly, until they are splattered by a passing vehicle or a stray explosive. You can explore at will, climbing buildings, raiding shops, throwing fireworks and watching the results.
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Originally posted in the guardian.
