A Wise Use of Time Demo

Although most people would choose flight as their superpower, the ability to stop time is always a tantalizing option, mainly because it would allow you to do everything you wish without too many consequences. However, there are all sorts of paradoxes that appear once time-related superpower enter the equation, especially when time traveling is involved.

A Wise Use of Time is a text-based adventure game in which you play the role of a character with the ability to control time. In case you are not familiar with the genre, the whole thing is presented using text and a multiple choice system, so you can control the story with your decisions. It’s not as riveting as an actual adventure game with 3D graphics, but it depends on your ability to let your imagination take the wheel.

The main character is left up to you when it comes to gender, sexual orientation and general view of the world, which means that the story is very malleable too. Your decisions affect the course of the plot, so you can use the powers to rob, help people, or try to make your family happy. One of the main subplots throughout the story regards the mob, and you get to choose whether to stop them or let them be.

As always, romance enters the picture as well over the course of the game, which means that you can pick a character to pursue romantically. Naturally, none of them is a sure thing, so you have to take the right decisions if you want to end up with them. There are no boundaries in this regard, so it doesn’t matter whether you prefer girls or boys, because the game allows you to pursue whomever you desire.

Even if there are no graphics, the writer worked hard on describing the environments as well as possible, not to mention all the action scenes you are part of over the course of the game. Hence, it should all be very clear in your head as you are reading through, especially if you are a fan of the medium and you put some nice music in the background.

All things considered, A Wise Use of Time is tons of fun under the right circumstances, and it’s a nice change from the usual fantasy stories about magic and demons. Thus, it’s worth a shot of you are a fan of text-based adventure games.