The Year is 2050, and You Are Not Allowed to Go Outside (Drone Delivery Despair)
I have never been a pro gamer my entire life. I’ve tried games with many players like Minecraft and Valorant, but none of those stick with me. I’ve attempted to play mobile games like Gardenscapes and 8 Ball Pool, but I’ve always been a casual player. Then I realized that maybe playing games is not my thing.
Listen up… I’m not a gamer, but I do LOVE watching playthroughs via YouTube or Twitch. I follow and subscribe to gamers like Markiplier, Let’s Game It Out, ManlyBadassHero, etc.
I love ManlyBadassHero because I’m terrified of horror games, and he plays a lot of them. I keep watching some of his videos because of the way he plays those games. He has a calm demeanor, which makes those games less terrifying. One day I stumbled upon his video on a game called “Drone Delivery Despair”, a 23-minute-long gameplay video.
Intrigued by Manly’s gameplay, I went to the game’s official website (click here), and to my surprise, the size of the game is only 80 MB. Here’s what’s written on the game description on the site:
“An apocalypse has occurred in the world, because of which people are forced to stay in their homes forever. The only way to receive and send resources between houses is cargo drones. You are a cargo drone whose task is to deliver packages from one point to another. Travel through a gigantic city filled with Soviet buildings in various weathers.”
The game is categorized as an adventure and psychological horror game and was created by KenForest. It’s a simple game: you’re a silly little drone just doing your job delivering packages and going to sleep in a honeycomb-like nest when you’re done. The task or the type of package may be different depending on the command that will show up on your drone’s screen. No loud music, no jumpscare.
The controls are uncomplicated, too:
- To move the drone around: WASD
- To move up/down: space/shift
- to move left/right: Q (left)/ E (right)
- To interact: F
(It’s uncomplicated but my left hand has very poor movement coordination so I struggled a bit)
Aside from its small size and simple controls, my favorite aspect of the game is its atmosphere. I LOVE dystopian themes. I’ve always wondered what will happen in the year 2050 and beyond, and I’m so lucky that this game picks a time around the 2050s when everything is done by machine. This game shows that the advancement of technology has helped humans in various unfortunate events, like deadly weather and killer air pollution where you have to stay at home.
But this game also shows you that no matter how advanced our technologies are, they could never truly save the entire human race.
Despite its simplicity, this game can deliver the feeling of desperation and helplessness. Drone Delivery Despair displays mono-color visuals equipped with dark but soft background music; capturing the gloomy atmosphere perfectly.
(Image source: my personal gameplay)
My entire gameplay lasted for 30~45 minutes. There’s nothing visually scary, yet I grew more agitated as time went on. I could feel the emptiness boring into my chest as I kept reminding myself, “Okay Malia, you’re just a drone. You’re a machine, you have no feelings, and all you need to do is delivering those packages.” I have to admit that it was not easy to shrug off the feeling of uneasiness throughout the gameplay.
To summarize everything, Drone Delivery Despair by KenForest is a calm and gloomy adventure game. You’re a drone, you deliver the package, and you go to sleep, then you repeat the next day. The control is super simple, it is less than 100 MB, and easy to install on Windows.
This game would be the perfect match for you if you’re looking for a quick play and is effortless to access.
