Day Repeat Day
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You’re hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you’re never really sure where it’s all leading to. It’s a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries.
After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. I hope you find it a meaningful experience!
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
An urgent reminder that there’s no ethical match-3 under capitalism, Day Repeat Day jarringly pairs an off-brand Bejewelled with neoliberal ennui to somewhat interesting effect. Beyond easy potshots at Silicon Valley’s glassy-eyed optimism and the coming AI dystopia, the game interleaves progression through a linear series of puzzles with understated stories of frustrated dreams and quiet despair. It’s nothing that hasn’t been done better by the likes of Fight Club and Mr Robot, but Day Repeat Day joins recent anti-capitalist indies like Neo Cab and Cloudpunk in vaguely yearning for a less inhumane socio-economic order without digging into the causes or possible solutions.
Arguably trying to have its cake and eat it by offering the simple pleasures of a match-3 while arching an eyebrow at the way predatory companies use these formats to get their hooks into our dopamine receptors, Day After Day’s iteration is simple, bordering on plain, and relying perhaps a little too heavily on the RNG. For all that, the puzzles are engaging, and break up the text-based narrative to good effect. It’s a simple, somewhat repetitive affair that’s probably better-suited to mobile than a sit-down PC gaming experience. Certainly the game never achieves the narrative complexity of Eliza, which although a straight visual novel charts similar terrain, or the heights of the classic Papers, Please, which more successfully braids together busywork simulator and social critique. All of the titles mentioned in this review are well worth checking out, but for those interested in shuffling around tiles while awash in anomie, Day Repeat Day is a touching curio. Maybe just get it for your phone instead of on Steam.
Steam User 1
A short, surprisingly deep narrative-driven match-3. Great for those who enjoy relaxing gameplay and a gripping story that reacts to your choices.