Bitcoins are created and awarded when people use powerful computers to solve mathematical puzzles, which become more difficult over time as more people compete to solve them.
Today, in an industry now dominated by action games, an adventure which tells a story through solving puzzles, pointing and clicking and looking over every inch of the screen before moving on would be a harder sell.
Three hours, two crossword puzzles and half a novel about a juicy divorce later, we hovered over a paradise of crisp white sand and sparkling turquoise water.
It soon becomes evident that Professor Hawking and Mr Mlodinow regard a philosophical problem as something you knock off over a quick cup of tea after you have run out of Sudoku puzzles.