A retirement home escape gone wrong
Just Die Already puts you in the shoes of an angry, fragile old person who has just been thrown out of their retirement home. The setting is a near future where nobody is having children, so there is no one left to fund pensions. With no support coming, you have to earn your way back into retirement care by completing dangerous challenges and hunting down retirement tickets across the city. The city itself is dense with detailed environments, secrets and hidden paths, so exploring and experimenting is half the game. Your body is made of glass: bones break, limbs come off, and losing your head is a normal part of an afternoon. The tone is broad comedy from the makers of Goat Simulator, and the world reacts to what you do — NPCs of different ages either laugh and clap or flee in terror depending on what is happening around them.
Playing together with friends
You can go it alone or join up to 4 players in online multiplayer. Together you can work through the challenges, or you can ignore the objectives entirely and turn the session into pure mayhem — ripping your friends' limbs off counts as a valid way to spend the evening. The sandbox is built for interaction: giant trouts, trampolines, guns, electrical wiring, fireworks, bazookas, axes, trombones, air horns and jetpacks are all lying around, and all of them can be used to hurt and maim. That makes co-op sessions as much about throwing ridiculous objects at each other as it is about finishing goals.
Versus mode and things to keep in mind
A free post-launch PvP update adds four new arenas where old players fight each other directly, with customizable game modes. It is old versus old, and the objective is straightforward: tear each other apart. Before you start, note that the game carries tags for violence, gore and sexual content, including nudity, so it is not one to hand to a younger crowd. Perma-death is part of the design, so expect to lose progress and start over when things go wrong. The game is a third-person open-world sandbox, and the fun comes from messing with the physics and objects rather than from a tight story — go in wanting to experiment, break things and laugh at the results.