Before this week, David OâReilly was best known in the gaming scene for making the pretty-looking futuristic video games in the recent science fiction film Her. Sadly, none of them were actually playable for anyone other than Joaquin Phoenixâs character in that movie. But now OâReilly has returned with a playable video game thatâs just as off-beat and quirky as his fictionalized work: a mountain simulator.
Yes, you read that right. Mountain, as its name suggests, is a game about being a mountain.
And no, that doesnât mean youâll be playing as The Mountain from Game of Thrones. That would certainly be awesome (or horrifying, depending on how you felt about that infamous episode). But letâs be honest: that kind of Mountain Simulator has already been done. Itâs called God of War.
How does this compare to games that let you simulate other, slightly more animated subjects like, say, goats? Hereâs the wonderfully deadpanned feature list:
no controls
automatic save
audio on/off switch
time moves forward
things grow and things die
nature expresses itself
~ 50 hours of gameplay
once generated, you cannot be regenerated
Alternatively to âmountain simulator,â OâReilly also describes Mountain as a ârelax âem upâ or âart horrorâ game.
Iâm really hoping that Mountain turns out to be something like Ed Keyâs soothing open-world experience Proteus, a game that heâs described as a stripped-down version of Skyrim that abandons quests in favor of letting you sit back and admire the scenery. Judging by the first batch of visually stunning images, it certainly looks like it has a lot of potential:
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