PHILADELPHIA — A new report has found that your roommate, who recently played and thoroughly enjoyed the indie puzzle game “Return of the Obra Dinn,” is also quite fond of filing his federal, state and local taxes once April rolls around.
“Solving the identities of all these various crew members and logging them down in the game’s notebook gives me the exact same kind of rush as logging onto H&R Block’s website and submitting my W-2 and 1099 forms,” your roommate, Jake Hughes, said in a statement. “Everything in order, in its right place, submitted and accounted for. Who knew gaming could be this much fun?”
Lucas Pope, creator of “Return of the Obra Dinn,” confirmed to the press that the game was made specifically for people like Jake.
“After the success of my first major game, ‘Papers, Please,’ which was considered the world’s first ‘immigration-themed’ video game, I really wanted to continue exploring the ‘writing things down and filing them’ genre, which I felt there was a lot of potential in.” said Pope. “It’s a bit like doing your taxes, another activity I get a lot of fulfillment and enjoyment out of, and know a lot of other people do too. Writing things down, organizing information into categories, identifying people – what a rush! In order to suck in other people who might be disinterested by that at first, I disguised the tax-esque gameplay with a swashbuckling story about kraken, murder and mutiny. But all of that comes second, in my mind.”
In speaking with a representative from the IRS, he offered his appreciation of the game and its fans, like your roommate.
“Oh, Jake? Yeah, I love that guy. I think he beat ‘Return of the Obra Dinn’ like three separate times.” IRS agent Dave Binder told reporters. “We find that the further people get through ‘Return of the Obra Dinn’, the better they are at filing their taxes correctly. Those who get the true ending, revealing the fates of the final crew members, are always timely with their submissions, too, while those who gave up 75% of the way through typically go to jail.”
At press time, your roommate was observed scribbling down notes in his little notepad on the couch as he crossed off possible identities of crew members in-game, getting visibly excited as he turned a new page.
