Tyko’s Dying Together is an eyeball-wrecking journey through our collective failures

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Suburban Basketball is a game that lives on in my brain, long after I finished it. It’s an aggressive attack to the senses and seems to say a lot and nothing at all at the same time. It hurts. It may never stop hurting.

So, I was excited to see when walkedoutneimans had a new game lined up. Okay, maybe “excited” isn’t the correct word. It’s more like morbidly curious. I really had to know if Suburban Basketball was just a one-off eruption of brilliant insanity or if the developer was intentionally trying to hurt us.

This time, we have Tyko’s Dying Together, another game growing parasitically on the backbone of GZDoom,and…

Oh no…

Oh no!

Let me start by sharing with you the explanation the author wrote in the included readme file:

“this game is a wholehearted endorsement of picmix.com and cooltext.com. if you take anything away from this game it should be that you should spend more time online looking at pictures and scrolling. picmix is a really good website to look at art that people from around the world make.” [Sic], obviously.

I’ll hyperlink those sites for you. You’re welcome. You may wonder what the hell the developer is talking about, but it becomes obvious once you get into the game itself. The whole damned thing is set up like an interactive picmix gif. Both picmix and cooltext look like Web 1.0 woke up from its shallow grave with a murderous thirst for revenge. It’s insane that picmix is so popular. It’s a social media site of itself. A horrible community of disgustingly garish animated pictures. 

I can understand the fascination. What part of humanity’s soul is so broken that we can find value in this?

Tyko’s Dying Together literally lifts this bizarre aesthetic. Your screen is constantly surrounded by a