You Have to Burn the Rope is a very hard game. You have to burn the rope there.

More seriously, this is a remake of the intentionally trivial Flash game of the same name, recreated for Pico-8 by Joshiah Winslow. The original game, by Kian "Mazapán" Bashiri, was created as a satire, specifically to make fun of other games that limit the player's interaction by being easy, linear, or heavily controlled and jokingly ask at which point these games also cease to be games. -Bashiri

Merl_ manages to burn the rope and saves us all.