
Time Flies is a short meditation on the meaning of life
Jay Peters
created: Aug. 2, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Aug. 4, 2025, 12:27 p.m.
I didn’t expect a brief game about flies to make me emotional.
But when I finished Time Flies, I nearly began to cry.
Image: PanicOne quirky part of the Time Flies: you choose how long your life is by selecting what country you’re in.
Based on World Health Organization (WHO) data, the game translates real information about life expectancy into seconds to determine the life of your little fly.
Even a little fly can have a big life.
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