While I love just about anything roguelike, high-intensity action, and even a good cozy game, I’ll admit that I have a weak spot for all things weird. The fun in weird games is that, more often than not, you’ll go in having no idea what to expect, and that also happens to make them tough to review without giving too much away. Time Flies, much like the incredibly fun Untitled Goose Game before it, happens to be a sort of puzzle adventure of sorts, though in this case a very minimalist one, since you’re playing the part of a fly, rendered in a very basic 2-bit visual style. 

What I will share is that you’ll quickly learn that your time is fleeting, and that your durability as a fly is extremely limited. Perhaps unsurprisingly, dying is not only inevitable, but usually pretty quick in coming. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have aspirations though, and once you do more than merely float around, instead engaging with some objects in some way, you’ll learn that there are objectives that can be met. Some exploration and experimentation will slowly start to reveal that not only are there tasks that you can complete, but they’re also on a larger bucket list. Critically, with each run the list can be a little different, and those things you managed to pull off are no longer listed.

Now, whether you’re still sticking with this quirky game at the point that you decide to take this into consideration and push yourself to find out what happens if you try to stop being scattershot, and instead focus on a greater goal will be up to you. There’s not much in the game to spoil since you can complete it in a mere few hours, but outside of saying that patience and persistence can be rewarding, I’d like to leave the fun of discovery as much in your hands as possible. I knew nothing going in, and believe I enjoyed the game much more as a result. Not everyone will latch onto this being fun, and it wouldn’t be hard to see how some people would dismiss it quickly given its overwhelming general simplicity, but for weird game aficionados this is another worthwhile short-term distraction to have some fun with.