Playing this game was very challenging for me at first, because I wanted to do what I'm used to do in any other game - find a way to get all monsters killed, every supply taken and look for what hidden gems the developers have put in the game. But it turned out that Overland is shockingly different from what I've seen before. This game feels like it doesn't want you to play it like that, it doesn't want you to get stuck at every level, instead it calls to just keep riding the ride. You can't search for every supply - the monsters wouldn't let you and you can't beat them, regardless of how tough you think you are, even all of those cool attachments for your car are no good since you might have to soon drop this vehicle anyway. So I turned into a minimalist: I tried to escape every level as fast as possible, grabbing a bit of fuel was my single concern, and by playing in this unusual style I realized something: why would I waste my time exploring every single level if no hope is there anyway? It's a post-ap road-trip game after all, my single hope is in driving to the West and that's exactly what I should be doing - just ride, don't get stuck, don't get attached to anything, just... pass it by, pass it by... But wait, isn't it something that buddists do? Obserwing the world; without judgments and without attachments, without cravings and without aversions. Going straight to your goal of liberation from this hopeless world of illusions. And as A Course in Miracles says: "The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by, without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want. W-128.2" And then I cried... Thank you so much for this amazing game.
