Cards on the table here, the phrase “fun product tie-in” doesn’t exactly spring immediately to mind when you think of the incredibly wild Black Mirror. And yet, here we bloody well are, apparently.
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The show’s season three opener Nosedive has been adapted into an actual board game intended to be fun, apparently. This despite the episode’s wild and bleak premise.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, a quick recap: Nosedive tracks a version of the world where people rate their every interaction with other people from 1 to 5 stars, with people’s overall rating determining their socioeconomic status. Even if you’re not even remotely familiar with Black Mirror, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it all goes bung very quickly.
The game version of this incredibly cooked episode of television tasks players with a similar goal: Performing the right moves and making the right decisions in order to increase your social score and live the “perfect” life.
The Nosedive game gives you a bunch of Lifestyle cards while employing a companion game app, which you and your fellow players use to rate the experiences handed out, which in turn affects your social score. The official product listing makes it all sound extremely normal and definitely like it will not end in fights.
Create a “perfect” life by collecting Lifestyle cards, while avoiding any dings to your Social Score that could cause everything you’ve worked for to come crashing down.
Your Social Score is based on how much the other players enjoy the experiences you give them using the free NOSEDIVE GAME APP. With over 1,000 unique Experiences available, risk your reputation to impress your important friends!
We cannot stress enough how very real this game is and how available to purchase right now it is as well. Cannot stress that enough at all.
No matter what you do though, just try not to let a few bad things snowball to a point where you’re rocking up to a mate’s fictional wedding to commandeer the mic and swing a knife at a teddy bear or whatever.
Nothing good can come of that. Game or not.
