‘2020 Game’ crams all of last year’s misery into a bite-sized game

[Jacob Siegal]

• 2020 Game is a free side-scrolling browser game in which you have to make it through 2020 without being defeated by any of the obstacles that made the year so terrible.
• Some of the challenges you'll encounter in the game include the Austalia wildfires, COVID-19, the stock market crash, quarantine, the risk of TikTok, and the US election.
• Max Garkavyy, the creator, is raising money to quit his job and make games full-time.

I'm not sure anyone could pay me any amount of money to relive 2020, and I say that having come out of it relatively unscathed. That said, if I were to live through the horrors of 2020 again, I'd certainly prefer to do so in bite-sized form, perhaps as a pixelated, side-scrolling video game that I could play on my lunch break.

Lucky for me, that's exactly what game designer Max Garkavyy has created. Spotted by The Verge, 2020 Game is a side-scrolling platformer in the vein of the classic Super Mario Bros. that tasks you with making it through the year by literally jumping over and dodging obstacles as you sprint to the finish line. Of course, those obstacles appear in the form of wildfires, COVID-19, TikTok, the US presidential election, and the endless quarantines.

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