You're Going to Die No Matter What in Sunburn

In the 8-bit space game, your choice is death by suffocation or death by star. Somehow you're supposed to choose star.


No matter what happens in Sunburn, one thing is for sure: You are going to die.

The game, coming to iOS devices on Nov. 20, puts the player in space as a stranded astronaut who must cling to other space travelers for dear life. The goal of the game is to steer you and your crew into a nearby star. Doesn't sound like the vacation you had in mind? The alternative is dying a slow death in the vacuum of space.

The no-win dilemma is based on the story "Kaleidoscope" by Ray Bradbury, which follows a similar plot about stranded astronauts. In the original story, though, there's no happy ending like burning up painfully in the sun. (Spoiler alert:) Instead, the stranded astronaut burns up alone in the atmosphere of Earth, appearing to a small child as a shooting star.

Along the way to you and your crew's fiery death, you must navigate around other deadly obstacles, including space junk, asteroids, and black holes. Your oxygen supplies are limited and you run the risk of suffocating along the way. To pass a level and live on through the worst quantum survival ever, you have to plunge into the sun rather than be ripped atom by atom in the singularity of a black hole.

Okay, so don't think Kip Thorne advised the science on this game. But if the Kerbel Space Program left you feeling too hopeful, Sunburn is here to be the dark cloud on an otherwise unbearably sunny day.

Via Motherboard.

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