Everything is currently free on the Epic Games Store! But wait; before you go indiscriminately loading up your shopping cart (haha, just kidding), I should probably clarify: Everything is currently free on the Epic Store, as is Metro 2033 Redux. So if you’re in the mood to expand that already insurmountable backlog still further, you know where to go.
Everything, if it passed you by previously, is the acclaimed second game from David OReilly, the Irish artist and filmmaker responsible for strange, serene desktop experience Mountain (and, I just learned two minutes ago, the Adventure Time episode A Glitch is a Glitch).
It’s a somewhat unclassifiable experience, in which players are able to catalogue the universe – a goal achieved simply by inhabiting objects within Everything’s procedurally generated world. And it’s here that Everything gets its name, with players able to take on the form of a dazzling array of items, from caterpillars and rocks to French horns and fax machines, moving all the way down to an atom and all the way out to entire galaxies.
Everything | Gameplay Film Watch on YouTube
Snippets of lectures from the late British philosopher Alan Watts accompany the strangely hypnotic action to create something of a meditative experience – one that contributor Simon Parkin, writing in 2017, called an “astonishing work…that broadens the definition of what a video game can be [and] what a video game can achieve in the mind of its player.”