I love the concept of Your Future Self. The idea of having a conversation with your future self intrigues me and the story really seemed to be interesting and worth playing through to experience but there are just too many annoying bits. You are presented with the idea that both your future self as well as the people forcing you to talk with them may be lying. You are also constantlyI love the concept of Your Future Self. The idea of having a conversation with your future self intrigues me and the story really seemed to be interesting and worth playing through to experience but there are just too many annoying bits. You are presented with the idea that both your future self as well as the people forcing you to talk with them may be lying. You are also constantly interrupted by a third party trying to tell you their version of the truth about who is behind all of this and why but can never finish before being cut off. You are trying to convince your future self that they were wrong in their future actions. You’re supposed to pick between three types of answers to your future self’s questions or statements which will possibly gain you “insight”. It is never said how this insight mechanic works. You constantly get your time loop reset and start over. How you progress is never said. A couple times I managed to make it to a point where I can choose to try to convince my future self or sympathize with them but if I choose sympathize then the game literally closes down. I tried turning on “helper mode” but nothing changed in game. Outside of keeping track of what answers I pick and trying different combos I ran out of ideas and patience and I am not resorting to random answers. On the flip side I went through the route where I successfully convince myself that their actions were wrong and can’t help but feel that is not the true ending. The game does have a very cool 90’s VHS vibe going for it complete with old school sound effects.
I played Your Future Self on Linux. The game never crashed on me. The game features no manual save option instead relying on auto save points. The biggest issue I have with that is it never indicated when these saves occur so any time I exited the game I never knew if I would lose progress or how much. While playing my GPU usage was between 7-12%; my VRAM usage was 340-409MB; my system RAM usage was 2-2.1GB; and my CPU usage was 3-5%. The game used 187MB of disk space and uses the Unity engine.
I really enjoyed the story to the game as well as the atmosphere and style. Sadly the mechanics just don’t make for an enjoyable experience. I played Your Future Self for 1 hour and reached two possible endings. I didn’t have the patience to get through to what I believe to be the true ending. I paid $6.13 CAD for it and despite my issues with the game can’t say the game doesn’t have value for that amount. I will say that if you can come to like the game’s mechanics you will probably love this game. Otherwise you’ll end up like me seeing it as having unrealized potential.
My Score: 6.5/10
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