Review SnakeyDave 4/5 · Oct 29, 2025
PowerPointed satire
Amusing narrative adventure about corporate culture told through gently surreal interactive data vis, wonderfully framed as a back and forth text conversation between the player and their boss. There are twin thrills: illicit, when lying by changing data, and subversive, in seeing the structured and corporate misbehaving, when bar charts go floppy like a Dalí clock. The game is perhaps …
Read moreAmusing narrative adventure about corporate culture told through gently surreal interactive data vis, wonderfully framed as a back and forth text conversation between the player and their boss. There are twin thrills: illicit, when lying by changing data, and subversive, in seeing the structured and corporate misbehaving, when bar charts go floppy like a Dalí clock. The game is perhaps a bit underbaked. There's more that could have been done with the story, and it feels like it's missing an extra twist or escalation both narratively (perhaps a confrontation between the edited visualisations and reality) and mechanically; more chart types, more complicated interactions. Still, it's concise and playful. I enjoyed it.
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