Fired
Olaf Nowacki
This is a short game in that genre of games I have long supported: a game that knows exactly what it is, and sets about doing that. You’ve been fired, your boss is terrible, you are getting revenge before leaving the office. Done!
I feel like the ‘slightly off-kilter workplace revenge fantasy’ is a milieu I haven’t seen for a while, but it’s very possible those games are still going strong just off my own radar; I certainly remember (if vaguely) the setting from the 90’s/2000’s. The examples I’m remembering were slightly more surreal, but on balance, this game is itself pretty surreal as well, though that surreality is very slightly more plausible than my vague memories tell me were in the other games.
I guess overall I had three reactions: It was satisfying to indulge in a little work-revenge fantasy, it was funny to read the over-the-top descriptions of how horrible the boss was (the onlyfans line made me howl with laughter), and it was disturbing to see some of the setup in the boss’s lair. Though the disturbing bits were made slightly less so by me having to go to the hints near the end, particularly for getting the key(!)
Did the author have anything to say? ‘Enjoy getting revenge on this terrible person.’
Did I have anything to do? Enjoy getting revenge on this terrible person.