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250 Indie Games You Must Play
You Only Live Once Marcus “Raitendo” Richert You Only Live Once is more like a conceptual cartoon than a playable game. Players find themselves in a Mario-like world with a twist: if you die, there is no way to play the game again, even if you reload your browser or refresh the page. The game is simple but unforgiving, and your chances of completing it are very slim. Once the main character has died, you’ll be treated to a series of game-over screens (a new one shows up each time the page is refreshed). The screens range from a television broadcast announcing your death to a shot of your grave with grass growing from the soil; refresh the page enough times and your character will begin to rise from the dead, only to fall over dead again. This experimental game was presented by developer Marcus Richert at the 2009 Sense of Wonder Night in Tokyo. Keita Takahashi, developer of Katamari Damacy, said he liked the game’s “corniness.”
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