OK Boomer, inspired by Twitter, feels like being stuck in Twitter

The Baby Boomers are here.

When we first ran OK Boomer we wanted to be a woman. In the process we broke the game. This game isn’t built for women, it tells us, much like the world itself feels like it isn’t. Why play the difficult route when you can be a man? The easiest life playthrough of them all. With such a strong opening OK Boomer, the interactive textual narrative from Poetrobot on itch.io, sets the tone for the rest of its short adventure. It’s a game with plenty of harsh truths, and not a lot of nuance. But then, nuance is rather difficult to pack into a character limit.

In OK Boomer, your encouraged to choose your own adventure as you would in any Twine game, but whereas others are more evasive about the lack of any real choice, OK Boomer is pretty open about it. The events of any choice are usually the same. You’re a white man of the baby boomer generation, and everything goes really well for you, actually. With life going so swimmingly, what has anyone else got to complain about? And why should you pay more taxes?

With it’s short run-time and impactful message, OK Boomer does a great deal to hammer home the oppressiveness of an opinion or outcome that can’t be changed. You’re not going to get a grand sweeping narrative here, or something of the complexity of American Election, but then sometimes all we need is a quick scream into the void, and this game is certainly that.

You can run OK Boomer now, via it’s ich.io page.