Killing Time at Lightspeed is an unmissable narrative adventure headed to iOS next week
Life comes at you fast
Killing Time at Lightspeed is a breathtaking visual novel, and it’s finally launching on iOS next week worldwide. The game’s premise is certainly a unique one—you’re aboard a spaceship travelling at lightspeed to a distant solar system. How do you keep up with folks at home on such a journey?
The trip takes a mere 30 minutes from your perspective, but 29 years will pass on Earth. During the course of your flight, you’ll receive news, social media updates, and messages from loved ones on Earth, and while you can interact with these missives on a limited level, you’ll largely find yourself passively scrolling through the next 29 Earth years as a mere bystander.
It’s a lonely prospect, sure, but the game also touches on wider issues around technology, media, and ethics. Killing Time at Lightspeed tries things we just haven’t seen in interactive fiction so far.
Killing Time at Lightspeed launches on iOS on April 12 for £2.99.