Most games offer escape from reality. Hizariaru with the Full Patch 2021 did the opposite: it made reality more interesting. By tying virtual weather to real weather, virtual time to real time, and virtual entertainment to real streaming content, the game forced players to find beauty in the mundane. As one review on Steam noted: “I stopped trying to ‘win.’ Instead, I learned to enjoy cleaning my apartment because my in-character also cleaned hers. The patch turned my life into a game, not the other way around.”
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