We're seeing more and more silly little games with Deep Issues embedded these days. Braid and Limbo helped lead the charge, and now Channel 4 (home of our darling Misfits and the earlier 1066 series and game) has busted out with another sweet semi-educational game in that vein: The End.

• This is you. Well, me, actually.

Theoretically for teens, but still pretty compelling for the rest of us, it's a semi-awkward mashup of platformer, puzzle battle, and social network tool. The graphics are loose and fun and reminiscent of old Nickelodeon stuff (if somewhat dark and cavernous). You find yourself prancing around the afterlife collecting stars and fighting bosses, just like in the Bible. The platform levels are well designed, if a little intimidating to those gamers who haven't cracked one in a while. The now-mandatory mechanical gimmick uses shadows to get past obstacles and places it on the smarter side of the spectrum. Between levels, you fight bosses using a funny little turn-based puzzle game that gets more fun the more you play, though it does take a few goes to pick up on basic strategy. After beating a level, you are faced with a stoner-philosophy question like "Do you want to live forever?" and placed on a thought matrix alongside Facebook friends and famous thinkers like Gandhi, Ayn Rand and Mary Shelley.

Even if you're fully settled into something that passes for a personal philosophy, the game is fun enough to keep you going. It could also be that The End starts you on a journey of self-discovery, or at least gets you started watching Misfits. Worse things could happen.

Thanks, Slog Tipper Jessie!

The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.