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Clock time Bandit reimagines Metal Gear Solid as a darkly comic work sim

What's the best means to get crosswise an anti-capitalist message in a videogame? I don't know, merely forcing you to work a gruelling, tedious factory job in real-metre must be up there.

Advent to Steam and Scabies.io later this class, developer Joel Jordan's Time Brigand is a pointed homage to Metal Gear Unbroken, thoroughgoing with top-down views and screen-pick codec calls. The difference is that you're not sneaking into fortified compounds stuffed of monologuing eccentrics—you're putting in a full shift at the box manufacturing plant.

There's one many catch, overly. Everything, from refuelling a forklift to getting a good night's sleep takes place in real time.

Shifting crates? Chopping trees? Compacting trash? That'll use up you five, ten, thirty transactions operating theatre more. Information technology is expressly unskilled and knowingly tedious, and each task drains an get-up-and-go measure that takes a full eight hours kip to recharge. Get caught off her guard on-careen? That's 12 hours hindquarters bars.

Dialogue in Time Bandit — (Image credit: Book of Joel Jordon)

Merely in between chores, you'll be meeting new characters and figuring outgoing how to steal bet on the one thing your bosses have appropriated from you: metre. You'll receive phone calls every few (real life) days progressing the story, leading to real MGS-style heists to nab precious fourth dimension crystals—suggesting that there may be some interesting twists to the real-clock gubbins later down the road.

"Clip Bandit was configured to allow players to mix the game into their lives in a unique way and give them plenty of clock to reflect on the ideas it presents to them patc they'ray playing IT—and while they'Re not," Jordon writes. "Clock time Brigand's sources of inspiration include the aura and storytelling of Metal Gear Hard, the political goals of Brechtian theatre, and the time-founded mechanics of Whippoorwill-like Crossing and Pikmin."

Part 1: Appendages of the Machine is due to come out later in 2021, though there's currently a free "Prologue" demo available to download along Itch.

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