Remember that movie Office Space? You hate your white collar job so much, you can now play a game where you join a lobby of regulars and slackers while someone in charge needs to figure out who to fire. Will the slacker win, or will the regulars survive?
Guess what, this is Among Us, but for office workers too. So much tedious work, but also mischief with suspense, making it wholly so much fun to play out. 20 players, all of us in one office space, we have tasks, we need to do them, but there are rounds and limited time, because the manager makes office meetings to decide who to fire. If you've played Garry's mod, everything is familiar.
The simple cyanide and happiness based art style and character designs, minimalist and blocky visuals, the slapstick nature, and often busy times keeping anyone engaged. It's not super deep, or highly distinguishable, no one said you can't have dumb fun in all kinds of ways.
To establish the premise, the hardest job comes from the manager, the funniest one comes from the slackers, and the specialists are left surviving between the two. I'll have you know, I survived through the worst by falsely accusing other people. You don't know how cruel it is.
I never did get around to being the manager once, but ah, I've seen the guy work. All he has to do is make careful observations, properly consider his next course of action, and then pressing the fire button. Isn't having an office job great? But what is driving me to maintain my role in every game? I guess the challenge and reliance on personal skills to get through.
With open mics, Me along with other players are in a social experiment, where many of us followed a shuffled round of objectives, we have to be discreet, and do them right as well. Also, since specialists need to slack off once in a while, both the parties need to be careful as well.
There's a lot to do, like printing papers, collecting said papers and sending them through fax, and then proceeding on another mundane task, involving organizing papers, creating client meeting list, etc. Some of these are tasks are filled with many steps to fill, and can get arduous or worse, confusing. By sheer paranoia, you're sitting ducks and the manager notices. Worse, you're told to remove trash which is a floppy disk, which could be anything, even a virus.
No worries, there's a saving grace whenever shit gets real. Follow the herd in other to survive, someone will obviously pin the blame on someone, but if it's you, just do a convincing job to blame someone else. Especially in a server with Slabs and Russians, one of our managers is easily dumbfounded and convinced, they pretty much fired me after all my work.
For slackers, it's fun, you get to be rabble-rousers, some slap-a**, put gelatin on someone's stapler, steal their desktop mouse, crazy stuff like that. But the most important part is, causing enough chaos without the manager figuring it out. Our goal is to fire more specialists.
Though, if there was a nice point system, it would make sense and incentivize more, but maybe the whole point of it taking in the office is realizing you don't get points for everything you do. Because real life doesn't work that way, then again, I'm slapping someone's butt, and setting offices on fire. Heck, I did one time, and went long getting away with it till I got bored and drew attention.
This game is fun, like if you like being lively around the most crazy-minded folks, plenty of wild times. Each map has a lot of interactive environmental spaces, the tasks shuffle so much, it's hard to familiarize with most of them. Plus, slackers throwing your document in the trash.
It's a fickle ordeal of opening the window and choosing the interaction though, it's not perfect, but mostly a workaround type. My suggestion would be to bring your friends around and do whatever you want. Hell, occupy the restroom, leave a huge dump where everyone can hear from a few cubicles away, hell just destroy the manager's office, and make him go crazy.
One day, I'll play the manager, and I'll probably do a good job of figuring it all out. I have people's skills too. I'm wondering if I can even put sticky notes on people's back and get away with it. Some power abuse, if you know what I mean. Then again, the company has a bottom line, and the specialists need these pesky trolls out of their work space.
DDSS is affordable to get on steam, it's catching up a lot. Not exactly like GOTY material like Balatro, but it'll get close enough when the content updates drop.
