Time Flies Arrives on PS5 This July 31 – PlayStation.Blog

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Hey there! So, I’m Michael Frei. Kinda wild to say, but I worked on this quirky game called Time Flies. Ever imagined life as a fly? Yeah, me neither, until now. Anyway, it’s landing on PlayStation 5 on July 31st! I mean, yeah, it got its first shout-out on the PlayStation Blog ages ago, and now it’s about to buzz into your consoles.

So, before you dive into this fly existence—wait, do flies even dive? No clue—first, we check where you’re playing from.

Oh, and here’s a fun fact: if you’re living it up in Switzerland, life expectancy is 83.3 years per the World Health Organization. But for our buzzing buddy, that means you’ve got 83.3 seconds of fly life to knock out a bucket list. Cruisin’ in the USA? You get a cool 76.4 seconds. Because apparently flies age like bananas—quickly and without much warning.

You know what that means? The game varies by where you are. Some places, it’s a breeze, while others, the struggle is real, and you barely stay airborne.

Let’s chat bucket lists—like, what would a fly even want to do before it croaks? It’s one of those existential noodle-scratchers. Thankfully, we cooked up a list so you don’t have to sit there wondering. The fun bit is figuring out how to tick them off before Time’s Up. Sounds impossible? Pfft, maybe. But then again, you get a bunch of tries because, well, you’re a fly.

Designing Time Flies was all about dreaming up fly activities. My top pick? “Find God.” Yeah, you heard me. Here’s the vague, spoiler-free roadmap we used—so you gotta explore and Find God yourself.

Have you ever thought about what it’s like to game as a tiny winged critter in a video game, within a video game? My brain hurts just thinking about it. The first idea was escaping hell to hit up heaven in a platformer scenario. But, ugh, complications.

The snag? A fly can only smack one button at a time. Our little guy doesn’t have hands, just well-timed collisions. So any interaction is a whole bouncy thing—kind of charming, if you ask me.

Solution? Keep it chill. How about a game with just three virtual moves: left, right, and an all-business button to kick things off? To Find God isn’t climbing to the heavens but checking out both sides and picking the right (or left?) route. Sounds simple, right? But then, surprise! There might be another world buried in Time Flies—a game in a game in a game—I swear, it’s like inception, but with flies.

Hope you have a blast flitting about in Time Flies on July 31st for PS5! 🖤