An absurd roguelike survival about fighting the runs during working hours. Drink. Work. Shit. Repeat.
The client left the keys, a task list, and disappeared. Paid per job: finish it, get paid. Don't finish, get nothing.
Your bowels came to work with you.
You start the shift. Cleaning, mopping, assembling furniture, putting up walls. Simple work.
Thirty seconds later you feel the first twinge.
You drop the screwdriver and run.
Water drops. Pressure builds. Sanity holds it all together until something goes wrong.
Neglect one and it hits the others. We won't tell you how. You'll find out.
You go through the cupboards like a thief, because you have no choice. You find tea, two unlabeled pills, and something that used to be cola.
You check the date. It's expired.
You drink it and hope for the best, because there's nothing else.
The tap works until building management shuts it off. And they will.
Then you're left with whatever you poured into bottles. Or the toilet cistern, if things get that bad.
Boiling helps. If there's power.
No inventory. No crafting tree. No recipe list.
You pick up two things and see if anything comes of it.
Sometimes it does. Sometimes something else does.
You can't mop without a mop and a bucket. You can't sweep without a broom and a dustpan, and then there's a bag to carry out to the bin.
You can't put up a wall without boards, beams and cement.
Bulbs burn out and it gets dark. A new one is in a cupboard or in the shop. Reaching the ceiling takes a ladder, and a ladder isn't always lying around.
You order, you pay for delivery, you wait. You buy upgrades for this one shift: bladder, kidneys, work experience.
The money doesn't carry over. You're broke, not an investor. What you earn on a shift, you spend on that shift.
But the phone also rings.
Sometimes it's management with a warning. Sometimes it's a cold caller who won't quit until you shake him off. Sometimes management dials the wrong number.
The lights go out. The water goes. Your hands get slippery and everything hits the floor.
Or you just draw the night shift.
There's no winning here. There's a shift to get through and points that stay with you even when your sanity gives out and you've simply had enough.
Points unlock new things. New items, new buffs, new ways for a shift to fall apart.
In Toiletocalypse mode, unlocks are pure RNG: you spin, one thing comes out, you take what you're given. In roguelike mode you get cards and choose yourself.
Next time will be different. Not necessarily better.
Randomized loot, sometimes generous, sometimes bone dry
Expiry dates on products
No inventory, just two hands you can make things with
Water quality tiers and temperature
A kettle to boil water, which needs looking after
Four job types, including building walls from materials
Cleaning tools and trash you have to take out
Light bulbs, darkness and a ladder
Three QTE types, optional, to speed up work
Payment for completion, points for progress
A shop with delivery and a courier fee
Character upgrades and money that last one shift only
Meds that might help when things get bad
Random events, buffs and debuffs
Clogged toilets, paper and its substitutes
Hygiene you have to keep up
Mess and smell that follow you around
Day and night shifts
A point bank for unlocking new things
Two unlock modes: pure RNG or pick a card
A discovery encyclopedia
Rising difficulty in roguelike mode
Shifts from 10 minutes to two hours
Interface scaling for your screen
Profanity censoring you can turn off
Loads of items, each with a comment from MR Shitty!
Some of them do nothing.
Some only pretend to...
The game isn't signed with a publisher certificate. It's made by one person after hours and there's no budget for it.
Because of that, Windows Smart App Control or your antivirus may flag the file as unknown and block it from starting. It's a false positive. It doesn't matter whether the game is compiled in VM or YYC, this affects any unsigned file. The same thing happens to most games made by small developers. It's easy to look up.
What to do:
add an exclusion for the game folder in your antivirus
or turn off Smart App Control (Windows Security, App & browser control)
I'll buy a certificate once the game pays for itself. That'll fix it for good.