Indentured Servant

Indentured Servant

Saoi Games · 2018 · Indie, Simulation, VR

PC
Positive95% · 19
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About Indentured Servant

First created for the Social Justice Game Jam, this VR experience is about a teenager who has encountered some hardship, and now is living on a fishing boat. Every day they wake up and sort fish to pay off their debts.

Gameplay focuses on sorting fish into buckets. Some fish are worth more than others, but inside your tiny room, you can't control what will be available to sort.

The whole experience lasts about 30 minutes.

Developed on the HTC Vive. Tested on HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 7, 2024
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 2, 2024
"Indentured Servant" is a badly made VR exclusive Unity asset flip made for a "game jam", which means it's unprofessional/unpolished trash. Yes, game jams are there to help indie developers who can't get a game development job feel good about themselves, but these little tech demos just pollute Steam and make it harder for genuinely made indie products to find an audience because they have to compete with all this valueless game jam proof of concept stuff. This game jam tech demo has you looking at dead fish, in VR. It was made as a VR game because, well, the developer failed to understand the basic axiom of VR gaming... if the only thing cool about your game is VR support, your game is not cool. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money aft…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 26, 2020
This game is awful & bad, but it's good. I never want to play it again it was that good. What a bad time. But also a good time. Uncomfortable definitely.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 2, 2020
Suprisingly fun for such a simple concept. Only flaw is that you can't beat the game and pay off your debt, which I know is the main message, but I feel like the idea of being able to finally get out of debt would add at least another hour or two of gameplay. 7/10 would pick up the fish again.
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Recommended Nov 1, 2025
Игра 'Indentured Servant' погружает в мрачную атмосферу средневековой жизни, где каждое решение имеет вес. Вы оказываетесь в шкуре прислуги, борющейся за выживание в жестоком мире, полном интриг и классового неравенства. Графика, хоть и не самая современная, отлично передает дух эпохи, а звуковое сопровождение усиливает ощущение полной вовлеченности. Геймплей строится на управлении ресурсами, выполнении заданий и, конечно же, выстраивании отношений с другими персонажами, что порой оказывается сложнее, чем кажется. Каждая новая неделя приносит новые испытания, заставляя вас проявлять смекалку и хитрость. Несмотря на некоторую монотонность в начале, игра раскрывается постепенно, предлагая глубокую сюжетную линию и запоминающихся героев. 'Indentured Servant' — это не просто симулятор жизни, это настоящее испытание на прочность, которое заставит вас задуматься о многих вещах.
Recommended Jan 14, 2020
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Gnome. ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Gnome. ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☑ Gnome. ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Gnome. ☐ Adults ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Gnome. ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☑ Gnome. ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Gnome. ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Gnome. ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☑ Gnome. ☐ Worth the price ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ Gnome. ☐ T…

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