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Papers, Please (2013)
8.2/10on IGDB
Released
Inspecting documents pays according to how many people you process, while mistakes, household bills and requests for mercy pull against that speed. A correct stamp can still be a troubling decision. Its force comes from making family survival and treatment of strangers compete inside the same working day.
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker (2022)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Salvaging a ship can be absorbing, skilled work, but your employer measures the materials against an enormous starting debt and ongoing costs. Safety and speed become competing priorities. The campaign adds labour conflict to that loop; the satisfaction of doing the job well makes its employment terms worth questioning.
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Citizen Sleeper (2022)
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
Your limited dice are both opportunities to earn and the energy you might spend helping someone or building a way out. Food, bodily maintenance and uncertain work make the budget personal. It connects survival to relationships, so a shift's value is never simply the number of credits it produces.
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Neo Cab (2019)
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
As a human driver in an automated city, Lina must earn enough while protecting an emotional state that changes her available responses. Passengers are people to understand and customers who affect her livelihood. The game makes being agreeable a resource problem, rather than treating conversation as time away from work.
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Eliza (2019)
6.3/10on IGDB
Released
Evelyn is employed to read an automated counselling service's script, including when her own judgement has nowhere to go. Listening exposes the gap between delivering an approved service and responding to a person. The wider story asks who benefits from that arrangement; it is a critique to consider, not a model of clinical work.
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Not for Broadcast (2022)
8.0/10on IGDB
Released
Keeping a broadcast technically smooth does not settle what you should let an audience see. Camera choices, censorship and adverts tie ordinary production tasks to political consequences. It is an exaggerated satire, but the useful tension is specific: professional competence can help a system whose message you question.
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Wilmot's Warehouse (2019)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
You organise stock according to categories that make sense to you, then meet timed requests judged through Performance Stars. Private understanding has to become reliable service. My reading is about the gap between a satisfying personal system and an externally measured output, rather than a claim that this quiet puzzle is an explicit workplace manifesto.
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VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (2016)
8.5/10on IGDB
Released
Mixing a drink well is only part of Jill's shift: customers bring worries, the bar has its own precarious future, and earnings connect the counter to life outside it. Listening becomes a form of service that a perfect recipe cannot fully capture. It gives emotional labour a place alongside the practical business of paying rent.
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Cloudpunk (2020)
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
Delivering parcels in a vast city means encountering the lives behind instructions that initially sound straightforward. Company rules, customer requests and Rania's own judgement do not always align. Driving supplies the rhythm, while decisions at the destination make the work more complicated than moving a package efficiently.
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Lake (2021)
6.9/10on IGDB
Released
Two weeks delivering post offer Meredith a different daily rhythm from her software career. Routes introduce neighbours whose requests compete with other plans, while calls from the old job keep that life present. It is a reflective story about boundaries and belonging, rather than a detailed simulation of postal pay or staffing.
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Promise Mascot Agency (2025)
8.6/10on IGDB
Released
Recruiting mascots is followed by mentoring them, finding suitable jobs and arranging help when assignments go wrong. Their personalities resist being reduced to interchangeable units. Beneath the absurdity, I find a useful picture of management as support and relationship-building, even though the game is not a realistic employment model.
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Discounty (2025)
6.6/10on IGDB
Released
Stocking shelves, working the checkout and negotiating supply deals make growth feel earned, but expansion also affects the town around your aunt's supermarket. Relationships complicate an otherwise tidy profit target. Its 2025 campaign invites you to consider whether making the business bigger automatically makes the community better.
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The Operator (2024)
7.8/10on IGDB
Released
Supporting field agents through databases and evidence analysis initially looks like a clear professional duty. Following an uncomfortable lead can conflict with instructions about authorised access and reporting. The procedural work gives that tension weight, although the story is a directed thriller rather than an open simulation of every possible ethical response.
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Mind Scanners (2021)
6.4/10on IGDB
Released
Diagnose citizens and operate treatment devices under a regime that controls your access to your daughter. Time and money matter, but preserving a patient's personality can clash with completing the state's definition of treatment. The disturbing fiction connects care, compliance and personal dependency instead of using a busy interface as its only argument.
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Beholder (2016)
7.5/10on IGDB
Released
Your landlord role combines the upkeep of a building with orders to monitor the people living there. Reporting a tenant can satisfy the state while harming someone whose troubles you know, and your own family has needs. Its stark scenarios make institutional obedience and personal responsibility difficult to separate.
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Not Tonight (2018)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Take bouncer jobs through an app in an alternative authoritarian Britain, checking identification while trying to secure your own right to stay. The worker must enforce exclusion while living under it. Its political satire is blunt, but the link between precarious gig work, compliance and personal security gives the shifts a clear purpose.
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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You (2016)
6.9/10on IGDB
Released
Work as an investigator selecting which pieces of people's digital lives enter a surveillance file. What you pass on shapes how colleagues interpret a person, even when the fragment is technically accurate. The responsibility lies in context and omission, showing how completing an information task can produce a misleading institutional story.
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Good Pizza, Great Pizza (2014)
6.2/10on IGDB
Released
Read customers' sometimes puzzling requests, prepare their food and watch the shop's ingredient costs and earnings. Clarifying a request and avoiding waste matter as much as moving quickly. I read this lighter PC example as a small account of service work's competing demands, without claiming its cheerful business model offers a broad economic critique.
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Sticky Business (2023)
7.3/10on IGDB
Released
Designing stickers competes with the practical work of arranging print sheets, fulfilling orders and reinvesting in new options. Returning customers also bring stories, making sales feel like continuing relationships. This is a generous view of small creative work, but it recognises that making something expressive and getting it out to people are different tasks.
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Death and Taxes (2020)
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
Office instructions turn life-and-death decisions into files to process, with a supervisor, pay and the possibility of advancement. Learning who a file concerns can make following the brief feel less neutral. The absurd bureaucracy exposes the temptation to treat responsibility as something that belongs to a manager rather than the person doing the work.
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