Games database
Adventure

Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real

22 May 20199

How long to beat

from 1 player

1h

Rushed

main story only

1h

Normally

story and some extras

2h

Completionist

everything in it

Trailer

Screenshots (10)

Artwork (2)

About

Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious. Observe, interact, or simply exist as the world reshapes around you — a meditative, overstimulated reflection on what it means to keep going when everything’s falling apart.

Part video game, part art installation, Sometimes to Deal With the Difficulty of Being Alive… is an interactive loop of coping mechanisms — a place where despair and delight blur into the same texture. You’re not given objectives, just a living space that responds to your presence, your stillness, your curiosity.

Every moment feels absurd: NPCs that sing about heartbreak in glitch-voice harmonies, battlefields that double as therapy sessions, color palettes that shift with your emotional temperature. It’s overstimulation as catharsis — the act of being overwhelmed as a kind of peace.

In the end, it’s not about survival. It’s about resonance. A digital hum that reminds you you’re still here — and somehow, that’s enough.

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayer

Perspective

First personThird person

Languages (1)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English

Also known as

ScrumProject.exeWindows Executable

Community Ratings

Rate this game:

No ratings yet. Be the first!

Facts

Developer

Jeremy Couillard, Ireneo Mercado

Publisher

Akupara Games

Released

22 May 2019

Platforms

PCWindows

Standing

Top 77% by 24hr peak players

Official website

Tags

Meditative / ZenDirect control