The best way I can describe Meredith Gran’s recently released video game *Perfect Tides: Station to Station*—or at least the best way I can describe it to people who read contemporary literature—is that it feels like a version Elif Batuman’s novels *The Idiot* and *Either/Or* that you can step inside of. Batuman’s novels offer the exquisite discomfort of gazing inside the head of an anxious, perspicacious, self-serious millennial college student as she flails around campus and makes bad decisions. Gran insists that you do all the flailing yourself. Gran started out making comics. As a student at the School of the Visual Arts in the first years of the millennium, she already had an audience; she apologized in 2004 and 2005 about not updating her series “Skirting Danger” as she worked on finals and her undergraduate animation thesis.…