Welcome to a little series I will be creating about indie games, and what are some of the more unknown indie games that you should be playing, along with some of the “bigger” indie games that have helped the indie movement along its path into acceptance.
In this episode I will be talking about Time Fcuk, a little game created from the mind of Edmund McMillen of Team Meat, a brilliant 2d game created in Flash.
The game starts off with you playing as Steven as you approach a box, but inside the box is another person, who claims to be you from 20 minutes in the future. He explains with extreme importance that you must enter this box within 20 minutes and how both of their lives depend on it.
After this little intro, the game turns into a puzzle game based upon multiple layers of dimensions where you are only able to interact with each layer as you are on it, the challenges comes from finding the objects you need to complete the puzzle in another ‘dimension’ and figuring out how you will be getting them to the required section without destroying it, or killing yourself in the process.
During the gameplay the player has, what you assume is yourself, talking to you via a box on the side, often leaving you cryptic messages, either about what is going to happen, what has just happened, or sometime just morbid messages about you will never escape.
“An example level showing a message from the narrator himself”
The game is just another looking into the mind and life of Edmund McMillen, and he has said himself that there is a much bigger connection between this and The Binding of Isaac, than just character of Steven.
Not only is this game another look into the great mind of Edmund McMillen, it is also a brilliantly challenging puzzle game that will give you a great sense of satisfaction when you complete it.
This game is available to play on Newgrounds or via “The Basement Collection” a selection of Edmund McMillen’s earliest flash games, which is available on steam or from his store in the form of a boxed copy. This is not a collection to miss if you are a fan of indie games, or just Edmund McMillen himself, it has some of the greatest game you will ever experience, along with some of his artwork in his younger years.