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Labor Power (2024)

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Labor Power
Game
Released
Pull coworkers away from their screens and bring them together across the offices of Grindstone, Inc. This short browser puzzle takes its cue from Pikmin. You start out alone, and the people you persuade to come with you are what make the next room manageable.
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Union Drive

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Union Drive
Game
A young supermarket worker wants to strengthen the union they already have. In this visual novel, conversations with coworkers let you hear why people who share a workplace might feel differently about speaking up. The browser version is designed for a phone screen.
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Lunch Break

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Lunch Break
Game
Getting a word in before the boss reaches you is the whole game in this Sega Genesis homebrew. You spend the lunch break crossing the screen to approach coworkers and win them over. Good Praxis released it as a Genesis ROM, so you’ll need a compatible emulator to play the download.
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Picket Line (2023)

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Picket Line
Game
Released
Stand striking workers next to each other and they become stronger. In this tower-defense game, a window lights up when someone gets inside and resumes work. Those bright windows show how close the line is to breaking. Quarc Games based the setting on a 1928 biscuit factory strike in Zagreb.
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Unionize!

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Unionize!
Game
In this browser card game, workers’ morale and support for the union are separate numbers. A card might help one without doing much for the other. Across three rounds, you have to keep people engaged today and build enough support to carry the run.
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Stachka

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Stachka
Game
Walk through a workplace in a fictional country that has just gone through privatization. The small Bitsy game changes its ending depending on whether you keep working or join your coworkers’ strike. It gives a few rooms and conversations enough weight to make turning up for your usual shift feel like a decision.
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A Bewitching Revolution (2019)

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A Bewitching Revolution
Game
Released
Play a witch who uses tarot readings, potions, and spells to help people in a cyberpunk city organize. Establishing unions is among the things your neighbors can do alongside building community gardens. It’s a first-person adventure about making enough room for people to act together.
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Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (1998)

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Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Game
8.4/10on IGDB
Released
Abe learns that the Magog Cartel is exploiting Mudokons to make SoulStorm Brew. The 1998 adventure makes helping other Mudokons a recurring part of play. With GameSpeak, you can address a group at once, and Abe gains a way to help friends affected by the brew.
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Tacoma (2017)

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Tacoma
Game
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
The people who run an orbital station leave behind recordings you can pause and rewind. Follow one coworker’s conversation, then go back and see what the others were doing at the same time. Piecing those accounts together lets you see what the crew owes one another and what its employer expects in return.
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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (2021)

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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Game
9.4/10on IGDB
Released
During a dockworkers’ strike, you can talk to union leader Evrart Claire and company representative Joyce Messier as part of your investigation. They have reasons to tell different stories about the same neighborhood. The fully voiced edition makes it particularly easy to hear when each is playing to an audience.
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Frostpunk: The Last Autumn (2020)

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Frostpunk: The Last Autumn
Game
8.4/10on IGDB
Released
You’re in charge of building a generator as winter approaches. Safety at the work site can deteriorate, and workers can go on strike. Trying to meet a construction deadline while people refuse an unsafe job gives this Frostpunk expansion a different tension from the original survival scenario. It requires the base game.
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The Outer Worlds (2019)

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The Outer Worlds
Game
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
Former cannery workers have followed Adelaide out of the company town of Edgewater and set up a community of their own. Talking to both settlements lets you understand what the workers gave up by leaving. When you decide where to send the power, you get to weigh that cost alongside the needs of the people still in town.
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A Prison Strike (2018)

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A Prison Strike
Game
Released
Move from object to object and a poem emerges a few lines at a time. Molleindustria made this brief browser game in response to the 2018 prison strike, and reading it means choosing which parts of the space and whose words to stop for.
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