Destined to Die

Destined to Die

released on Jul 13, 2021

Destined to Die

released on Jul 13, 2021

Destined to Die is a task managing game about depression, containing over 1000+ pieces of physical and digital art. What's the point in life, if all paths lead to death. Choose your actions, and learn how to live. All paths lead to death, but how long can you live?


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This game is quite wierd, when you play it you can instantly recognize it kind of a personal piece, but I found it to be really poorly delivered. I understand what they went trying to go for having stats like "happiness", "satisfaction" and "instant happiness" but forcing those concepts into just a value that can raise or go low defeats the point of humanizing a game like this. It end up feeling like a poorly designed simulator instead of a game or even a way to deliver a message.

Having confusing gameplay with unnecessarily convoluted clues of the mechanics doesn't help either.

I also couldn't find any form of a story (?. I mean, I get why the game may not give you any dialogue or text, all the "fill the blank" kind of deal. But I found to be nothing to fill it up with, maybe it's different for people who have gone through similar stuff, but in the other case it just makes it feel more like a dehumanizing simulation.

this game is confusing, tedious, and frustrating almost the entire playthrough, but it is so beautiful. once you reach a point where you get over the nonsensical gameplay and find a routine to get yourself through each day, you really see the game for its gorgeous story and incredible design. Overall I can’t say I had a lot of fun with this game, but it was definitely worth it in the end.

There is no alternative. It is not possible to close your eyes to it, it is not possible to say no. There’s no recourse, no mercy, no salvation to be had from anyone. There’s not even any hope that time will sort things out. There’s this, there’s what you’ve seen, and now and again it will be less horrible than what you’ve seen and now and again it will be much more horrible than what you’ve seen. But wherever you turn your eyes, that’s what you will see, you will not see anything else, and that is the only thing that will turn out to be true.