- Streets eerily quiet
- Creepy set design
- The reality of the entire situation is pretty unsettling
- Potentially nauseating at times
- Grandma doesn’t really understand and thinks you should be outside
- There are some rules
- Personal grooming not a real priority
- Sweatpants and hoodies the uniform du jour
- Cereal for dinner totally cool
- Easy to procrastinate doing other important tasks
- No daycare for the kid(s) can really cramp your style
- Easy to lose track of time
- Day and night seem arbitrary
- Coffee then booze, in that order
- Eat a lot of takeout
- Lots of empty store shelves
- Can’t interact with background characters
- Strangers running toward you is scary
- Actually anybody running toward you is scary
- Mainly get off the couch to sleep and use the bathroom
- You can wander around but only within certain parameters
- Go to sleep thinking about it
- Dream about it
- Wake up sleeping about it
- Okay, basically, think about it all the time
- Jump scares abound
- Never know what fresh horror is waiting around the next corner
- Occasionally question what sick sense of humor conceived of all this
- It’s single-player, yes, but you’re part of a community
- You really want to get to the end
R. Daniel Lester is the author of the hardboiled humour novellas Dead Clown Blues and 40 Nickels from Shotgun Honey/Down & Out Books. His comedy writing has also been published on Points in Case, Little Old Lady (LOL) Comedy, Slackjaw and dystopian satire site, Omnarchy.com. You can follow him on Twitter @RDanielLester.