Something has gone wrong with the world. For six days straight, the sun has not set and there are reports of a storm circling the globe and flooding everywhere that it hits. Europe and Asia are gone. You are driving down a road in Pennsylvania. You’ve been driving for three days and, during the entire time, the sun has been right ahead of you.
Your choices are simple. Do you keep chasing the sun? Do you listen to the radio? Do you think about your family and the situation that you fled when it became obvious that something had gone wrong with the world? Do you stop for gas or do you ignore the warning light? Simple the choices may be but they will determine how you spend your last few days on Earth.
Chase The Sun is one of the many recent games to deal with the end of the world. One thing that almost all of these games have in common is a fatalistic view of the end. In almost all of them, the end is inevitable and it’s just a question of whether you can go out on your own terms or not. Chase the Sun is no different but what sets this game apart from so many other games is that your choices actually do make a difference. This is not one of those games where all of your choices all circle back until each game reaches the same conclusion. Instead, there are multiple endings, depending on what you choose to focus on. You have the chance to find some happiness before the world ends but it’s going to require making some smart decisions. Make the wrong decision and your ending will be far less pleasant.
The game’s descriptions are vivid and, most importantly, it’s not a game that wastes any time. It’s a game that can be played and finished within 15 minutes but, because it has so many possible endings and branching storylines, it’s also a game that reward replaying.
Through the Shattered Lens 