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You are Employee No. 43, a loyal and dedicated office worker.

You must obey your boss's every whim, or face certain... termination. 

Along the way you will uncover the truth about the office, your boss...
...and yourself.

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Find all the collectables to get the password to a special reward! 
https://geeksomniac.itch.io/employee-no-43-reward

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G'day! This is an old student project I made back in 2017, my very first proper game with a start to finish gameplay experience, it's a free short fun experience so please don't be too harsh, it's just an experimental whacky humour/story/puzzle game I made as I was learning the ropes of game development, so of course it's packed full of rookie mistakes, janky textures, and bugs galore.๐Ÿ˜… And the games that inspired me when I was making it should be rather obvious too ๐Ÿ˜‹
But I hope it still gives you a chuckle or two ๐Ÿ™ƒ Enjoy.

I felt like releasing it to gather feedback to help me decide if it might be worth remaking it in future now that I'm more experienced as a game dev. ๐Ÿ˜„ 

I have several other old game prototypes I plan to release on itch in the near future too. Follow me for more updates on those and other things I'm working on: https://linktr.ee/geeksomniac

Cheers for checking it out! ๐Ÿ’š

------------------------CONTROLS------------------------

  • LMB to pickup objects. RMB to drop them.
  • MMB to rotate held objects.
  • Scroll wheel to bring held objects closer/farther away.
  • CTRL to crouch (toggle)
  • Space to jump.
  • ESC to pause, + Y to confirm quit game.
  • Settings for audio, mouse sensitivity and FPS are in pause menu.


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  • Some areas require you to crouch to get through. (CTRL)
  • Some obstacles that move require some patience to get past, observe the patterns, sometimes it might take a 2nd cycle before a path is open.
  • Pickup object bug can be fixed by clicking RMB & LMB again.
  • Collected easter eggs are all displayed in the trophy case, look at them to read their individual description. If you find them all a new reward will be at the trophy case.
  • If you get stuck there's also a full walkthrough text file to download.
  • But the walkthrough doesn't give away where all the easter eggs are :P you have to earn that. And please don't spoil the reward by posting it in the comments. Honour code!
Published 18 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorGEEKsomniac
GenreInteractive Fiction, Puzzle
Tags3D, Atmospheric, Casual, First-Person, Mystery, Narrative, Short, Singleplayer

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Employee No. 43 - V1.0.zip 229 MB
Walkthrough.txt 3.9 kB

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Your game starts at 14:19. A fantastic mystery with a great reveal at the end! The puzzles were fun, and the office was eerie and intriguing. Interacting with the environment worked very well. Nods to Stanley, Portal, and Zelda were clever. Keep up the good work.

Cheers for the playthrough and the compliments good sir! (and son.. who clearly stole my game bosses eyeballs to wear foir sunglasses lol), much appreciated. & Yes you spotted a lot of the references I threw in there hehe cheers.

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The atmosphere of the game is a bit tense

In a good way I hope :D Maybe I'll make a backrooms varient ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

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It's got a real backroom feel :D

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