{"id":25644,"date":"2024-01-17T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=25644"},"modified":"2024-01-17T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:06:42","slug":"20240117-25644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pixelatto released their title Nothing <\/strong>on January 11 for the PC (Steam). In the free-to-play game, you do nothing, which has been very well received by players.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Starting<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Nothing, the goal is not to do anything. The game opens with the message \u201cPress any key to start doing Nothing,\u201d and pressing a key will start off a counter that times how long you have been idle. If you move your mouse or do anything on your PC, this counts as doing something, so you lose the game. You can keep replaying and trying to improve at doing nothing. 
 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Message<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even though it\u2019s just a game that measures time spent doing nothing, it\u2019s been gathering praise on Steam. At the time of writing, Nothing has a Very Positive status, with 94% out of 2,090 reviews being positive. Aside from people simply recognizing the humor in the game\u2019s concept, some users mention the game being handy for measuring how long they sleep, with others using it for therapy, and even to practice Zen. It seems like everyone is finding a unique value in this unusual game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing has no art or animations or well, anything. However, it’s free to play, has a unique theme, and \u00a0delivers exactly what it promises. Considering it this way, it\u2019s no surprise that the game’s being well received. It also has a significant number of concurrent players, peaking at 354 in the past 24 hours (SteamDB<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Concurrent<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, the Steam community has vandalized Nothing\u2019s user-defined tags, with \u201cHentai,\u201d \u201cPsychological Horror,\u201d \u201cNudity\u201d and an ironic \u201cStory Rich\u201d displaying right at the top. If you go into Nothing expecting any of these, you will likely be disappointed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an aside, Nothing\u2019s developer Pixelatto has previously released Reventure, an adventure game with 100 different endings. Two days after the launch of Nothing, they amusingly released Something,<\/a> a game in which you have to keep doing something, for $99.99.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Something<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nothing is available for free for the PC (Steam<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n





Written by. Amber V based on the\u00a0original Japane<\/a>s<\/a>e ar<\/a>t<\/a>icle<\/a>\u00a0(original article\u2019s publication date:<\/em> 2024-01-15 12:28<\/em>\u00a0JST)<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing – a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-25644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nSteam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nothing - a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nothing - a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-17T05:06:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-17T05:06:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1352\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ayuo Kawase\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ayuo Kawase\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Nothing - a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Nothing - a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2024-01-17T05:06:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-01-17T05:06:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1352,"height":850,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ayuo Kawase","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ayuo Kawase","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/"},"author":{"name":"Ayuo Kawase","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c4956fe8b9817b63cdaf4708ad59bc8e"},"headline":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0","datePublished":"2024-01-17T05:06:41+00:00","dateModified":"2024-01-17T05:06:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/"},"wordCount":363,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg","keywords":["News (Global)"],"articleSection":["Indie Games","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/","name":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg","datePublished":"2024-01-17T05:06:41+00:00","dateModified":"2024-01-17T05:06:42+00:00","description":"Nothing - a free-to-play Steam game in which you do nothing, has been receiving positive reviews, with users finding various unexpected benefits to it.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240117-25644-header-1.jpg","width":1352,"height":850,"caption":"Nothing on Steam"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25644\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Steam game in which you do Nothing releases to rave reviews\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/c4956fe8b9817b63cdaf4708ad59bc8e","name":"Ayuo Kawase","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/minoru-umise-250-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/minoru-umise-250-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/minoru-umise-250-100x100.jpg","caption":"Ayuo Kawase"},"description":"Editor-in-Chief of AUTOMATON Japan","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/ayuo-kawase\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25656,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25644\/revisions\/25656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}