I reviewed this for my #33in28 series on Thoughty! http://briebeau.com/thoughty/33in28-week-4-reviews/

An excerpt:

This game has a fun layout and is a really good way of capturing the experience of ADHD for people who may be unfamiliar with it. I really like that the creator is very honest about their own experiences in the forward, describing their brain as a stick of butter that slides from task to task! To play the game, you use clocks, cards, dice, and journaling to record playing through multiple days worth of tasks.

I will be 100% honest: I could not play this game. I am not formally diagnosed with ADHD (yet) but trying to play through it was like chasing a greased corgi through a McDonalds play place. This is not the fault of the design – in fact, I think it captures how good the design is, because people who already know what ADHD is like and what having attention or focus issues are like will struggle with it more than people who can sit down and accomplish a task without their stick of butter sliding.

I particularly appreciated the acknowledgement of sleep debt in the mechanics as you go through each day trying to accomplish all of the tasks, incurring that debt if you push through. I also liked that if you get off track of your task or keep doing the task you want to do, the mechanics account for that. When playing, I didn’t initially realize how much trouble I had staying on track, so I turned to Thomas for his perspective, and as a fellow attention-issue haver, his agreement was solid. 

“As someone who has attention issues, the game’s mechanics and writing really put to words mechanically how I interact with work and how I accomplish tasks. My brain is like a scattering of forgetful squirrels, that as a group pile onto an idea. Then if one is distracted by something else, moves to another, and the whole group is led that way. Then when done with this new and interesting (but now boring) task. The squirrels return to what they had initially been doing, uncertain of how much progress they had made before.

The games clocks remind me of this and remind me of how I function when it comes to tasks and the difficulty there is in maintaining focus on a single goal. I think to play this game purely, I may have to open four YouTube videos and have them all playing at once in various split screens across multiple devices.” – Thomas Novosel

I think Thomas really encapsulates it!