Review DirtyMidnighter 3/5 · Feb 5, 2021
Working From Home
This incredibly charming VR title is really more of a tech-demo than a game, which means that it's fine for testing out VR and introducing it to your friends and family before you take those training wheels off and dive into more serious fare. Your character never moves so there's almost zero chance of getting VR sickness. I love the …
Read moreThis incredibly charming VR title is really more of a tech-demo than a game, which means that it's fine for testing out VR and introducing it to your friends and family before you take those training wheels off and dive into more serious fare. Your character never moves so there's almost zero chance of getting VR sickness. I love the premise that robots in the future have attempted to recreate simulations of menial jobs that humans might have done long ago. The existential nightmare really comes to a head in the office level, which perfectly captures the sensation of chipping away at a never-ending Sisyphean task and wasting time while trying to look busy. Even weirder still, with the ongoing pandemic changing business practices forever, these cramped cubicle jobs may actually be a thing of the past, making this a genuine document of an actual bygone menial task, which is the joke/actual premise of this game. Too real, Job Simulator. Too real.
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