Broken Reality takes you to a ridiculous digital realm where Likes get you access to new areas, bookmarks let you teleport, and you can cut through annoying ads with a blade.
NATEM is a megacorp that controls most digital services in Broken Reality, one of which happens to be this parody vision of the internet. Within it, players are free to explore a land of .exes, online storefronts, and web-connected oddballs, making friends and solving puzzles. Which honestly sounds way better than my daily real world internet adventures of logging in and seeing what new political horror is happening.
Broken Reality offers Love Cruises for those looking for a little romance, online gambling in GeoCity for those looking to increase their cash flow, or the fun of online shopping by mashing things with your credit card. You’re also free to take on quests for rewards or play a handful of minigames, depending on how you want to spend your day on the living internet.
All of these adventures and actions take place in a striking vision of digital lands – a realm of collectible Likes and colorful landscapes. Broken Reality‘s vision of a living internet, while silly with its masses of ads and its strange online folk, offers a kind of beauty that makes it a joy to explore on its own. Through its humor and its pretty places, it’s well worth taking the time to get lost in this vision of the internet.
Plus, again, way better than the real internet.
Broken Reality is available now on Steam.
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