#fahmitsu

There is good in the world, only if you choose to see it.

Cinta

In relationships, we don't always see the other person. We push our ideas of who we think they are on them.

Kak Mus

You have to remember that people aren't just connecting with your words. When they listen to your music, they're also connecting to themselves. How a lyric made them feel.

Maria

Make sure to take some time for self-care today.

Satria

Everyone deals with grief differently.

Music isn't only about the compositions and theory. You're supposed to feel something.

No one's life is the same, but we all have similar experiences.

You're not the same person you were, and you won't be the same person a few years from now. So you might as well make the best of it and try to have as much fun as you can.

Tasya

Talking to someone for even perspective might help.

Rama

At least we have memories.

Getting too absorbed in one thing can really drain you.

Zak

★☆☆☆☆

Devtheism

There’s not much to recommend Devtheism as a “game,” per se. There are very few actual game mechanics on display. There is a way to save and load your game, and the game does keep track of you money, but that’s about it. The game pretends to have an inventory system, though since you only receive one item throughout the game, the system is not actually implemented. There are also no choices to make, aside from the decision to sleep through part of the game, which has no consequences as far as I can tell.

So, the game largely exists to tell a story. Unfortunately, there’s not much to recommend there, either. The game follows the story of a young man who is mocked for his belief in the “developers,” or the gods of the game universe. Other characters only exist to either mock him for his beliefs, or assure him that not everyone looks down on him for believing in developers. He decides to go on a quest to find evidence of the developers’ existence. Of course, he doesn’t find it, and decides that taking things on faith is good enough.

References that NPCs make to the main character being a terrorist make it clear that this game is meant to be specifically about Islam, rather than religion in general. It’s also obvious that the inspiration for the game comes from difficulties that the creator has had dealing with hostile non-believers on the internet. Characters even have names such as “forum guy,” to make clear that these interactions happened online.

While I have sympathy for the creator’s obvious frustrations in being stereotyped online, this game feels more like a way for them to blow off steam, rather than make something that is actually appealing to play or experience. This is essentially “People Are Mean to Me Online: The Game,” and it’s just not engaging in any way.

Devtheism is both free and short, so the only cost to entry is about 20 minutes of your time. Even then, I can’t recommend it.