Pocket Boss

Pocket Boss takes one of the least glamorous aspects of everyday life—office work—and turns it into an amusing and surprisingly insightful interactive experience. Developed by Langfilm and Mario von Rickenbach and published by Playables, this short indie title thrives on its originality. Instead of saving kingdoms or battling monsters, players spend their time adjusting corporate reports, inflating statistics, and trying to keep an increasingly demanding manager satisfied. It is an unusual premise that immediately stands apart from the crowded indie marketplace, proving that compelling game ideas can emerge from the most mundane settings. The game places players in the role of a remote employee communicating with their superior through a phone-like interface. Tasks arrive in the form of requests to improve company metrics, whether that means stretching a graph upward, manipulating market share figures, or making productivity charts look more impressive than they really are. The controls are simple and intuitive, relying on actions such as dragging, pinching, and reshaping elements on the screen. Every interaction is designed to feel playful, transforming what would normally be ted…

[h3][url=store.steampowered.com/app/3509180/Pocket_Boss/]Pocket Boss[/url] appears more interesting than the average spreadsheet.[/h3] Enjoy 40 minutes of mildly entertaining mini games inspired by productivity apps and improbable text conversations with the boss, featuring mainly logic puzzles, at least one timed sequence and some action based moments. As with most games in this series, the main appeal is that this is completely different from everything else on the market. The player is buying something original and unique. For some reason I expected to experience a deeper social commentary or clever criticism of corporate culture. The game satisfied my curiosity for something fresh but it did not answer life's big questions.

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Admittedly a very short game, but this ensures that it doesn't get boring. I really had a lot of fun playing it.

Fingers crossed for Sankey diagrams in Pocket Boss 2.

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