I didn’t expect much fromFly in the House.

Its creator emailed our tips line overnight with a nondescript subject line — “Exploration and destruction game !” — which is not normally something I’d feel compelled to investigate. But I clicked on that email and saw the game was about a fly. All right, all right — I’ll watch the trailer.

I also didn’t expect to break out into laughter.Fly in the Houseis a game about trying to kill a bug not with a flyswatter or a rolled-up newspaper, but with a treadmill, or a table, or a television. Anything you can get your hands on, really. “Destruction game,” indeed. Brightened my morning.

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