Parents need to know that this brief and visually rudimentary PC game is available for download free of charge to anyone who stumbles upon it. It has never been commercially licensed or distributed, and, as such, is not rated by the ESRB. The game's protagonist experiences a short, five-minute life, moving rapidly from youth to middle-age to grey-haired maturity, before eventually dying. The game is meant to be a metaphor for life, and in its simplicity it can be both enlightening and depressing.
Positive messages:This game is a metaphor for life. Your character progresses from young to old in a handful of minutes while wandering through a maze filled with treasures, dead ends, and out-of-reach riches. All games end with the player character’s sudden, random death. There is nothing bad or evil here, but it can be surprisingly depressing.
Violence:The player’s character (and his wife, should he find one) both eventually die. Their small, highly pixilated bodies simply disappear and are replaced by tombstones.