My Summer Jobs: Dialing for Dreams!

[b]my summer jobs: dialing for dreams[/b] is a time/resource management puzzler with some deductive elements, about a girl selling magazines to people over the phone. for youths, a magazine is like a website on paper. wait, they don't even know what a website is anymore... so maybe like insta comments or tweets but longer, without hashtags and on paper. and a rotary phone? imagine a big ol' clunky mobile with a long wire and no screen, you might've seen one at grandma's place. and no, that upside down horn thing doesn't even have a camera, absolutely useless. the game is [b]entirely mouse-based[/b], no hotkeys, just click stuff. interactable objects react on mouseover, some have tooltips. the phone is the main thing, the notebook is the help/how-to-play section, your face on top shows basic stats and there's some coffee on the desk. more interactions just for fun and tooltips for a bit more clarity would be good. unlike my reviews, the notebook is concise, but here's what you need to know. [b]there's both a clock and an energy meter but no real-time elements, they're more a sort of move limit.[/b] you can only do a certain amount of actions per day, at your own leisure, feel free…

The main reason I did end up buying this is to support a Finnish Game Dev. It's okay. I don't think I could justify the full price of it for myself, but having bought it from sale, I don't mind. I like the concept, and resource management is always fun, though it's very thin scratch here. Surprisingly enough, there's 3 different endings.