Pending Approval
Rcaza · 2026 · Casual, Simulation, Incremental, Automation, 2D
PC
4 user reviews50% · 4
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About Pending Approval
Are you ready for endless bureaucracy?Welcome to Pending Approval, the idle game where your only mission is to fill out forms, stamp them, and climb the ranks of a Kafkaesque organization that has no beginning, no end, and no meaning.🖊 FILL OUT. STAMP. REPEAT.Every form is a new bureaucratic hurdle. Fill out fields, stamp the approval seal, and rack up Bureaucracy Points. The higher you climb the ranks, the more absurd the documents you have to process become.Over 20 types of forms with increasingly Kafkaesque titlesGolden forms ⭐ with x10 rewardsUrgent forms ⚠ with a countdown and penaltyRejection system for the most ruthless bosses🤖 HIRE YOUR BUREAUCRATIC ARMYBecause no bureaucrat works alone. Start with a simple pen and end up running a network of absurd automatons that work 24 hours a day… literally.20 Phase 1 Automators: From the Pen to the Final Seal20 Phase 2 Automators: Even more ridiculous, unlocked after promotionMass Hiring SystemCosts that scale exponentially (just like in real life)⬆ PROGRESSION SYSTEMOnce you've proven yourself, you can “Advance”: reset your run while keeping your permanent abilities and earning Prestige Points that boost your performance in every new game. How many times can you reinvent yourself within the same system?🧠 SKILL TREE25 skills spread across 5 branches that transform the way you play. Do you prefer raw speed, maximum rewards, or total control over your workday?Hiring Branch: reduce costs, boost productionForms Branch: more rewards, fewer fields, quantum chaosAuto/Click Branch: automate every last clickOmega Protocol Branch: secret and absurd mechanicsWorkday Management Branch: master the daily card system📅 DAILY CARDSEvery workday begins with a choice. 14 different cards with effects that last all day: instant bonuses, passive modifiers, and special counter abilities.👔 YOUR BOSS CALLS YOUThroughout your career, you’ll receive calls from your boss at pivotal moments. Each conversation reveals a little more of the absurd corporate machinery you’re trapped in.🏆 ACHIEVEMENTS AND RANKSOver 25 unlockable achievementsA ranking system that evolves with your active skillsA credits screen with a personalized certificate upon completing the game
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The gameplay felt unrewarding as the prestige elements are more like incremental tech tree upgrades than starting the game over upgrades, after five or six hours I sort of lost tolerance for it. You can't let it idle - the upgrade that makes you not have to come back to click every five or so minutes doesn't auto select a bonus so it still holds up waiting for you. It seems like the fastest way to progress is to not prestige often as well, so it mostly stays the same game all the way though. Great humor though, UI is difficult to read, I don't know if that's vibe coding or just unoptimized UI, but early on it's just trying to find what numbers are doing what where. Fun humor for an hour or two, though! Just, definitely unpolished and a bit tricky to find the fun in the work once the humor wears off.3 found this helpful
Idle & Incremental Lovers recommends Pending Approval, with some caveats: [i] A decent simple first game for this solo dev. Absurd humor fitting the absurdity of bureaucracy and good balance between active and idle play. UI could definitely use some improvements, though.[/i] + It's a simple game, nothing groundbreaking but all the basics are there (idle and active play, prestige, numbers go up...). + Absurd humor everywhere (in the forms, upgrades, bottom of the screen...). - Big readability problem. Even when choosing the biggest font, the characters are way too small, and sometimes the colors are too similar to the background. This really ruins the enjoyment, as you don't want to stick your face to the screen to be able to read the jokes or see the big numbers! - Having your cursor transforming into a stamp feels strange for the first few minutes, as this is the bottom of your cursor/stamp that now triggers the click. It becomes less of a problem once you get used to it. - Achievements hunter, be careful: you will have to start over if you didn't get all the achievements before the ending. And the ending comes abruptly, there is no warning. - Talking about achievements, they a…3 found this helpful
A nice idea game and the form design is nice but the UI is awful and it plays really bad, got to the end buying all upgrades tried to ascend and I get stuck on a stupid denial screen. Going to have to start fresh to 100%.1 found this helpful
Fun idle game about beurocracy. Click, buy things that click for you, get skill points, asend so the skill points take effect, rinse and repeat. There is a decent story about you slowly becoming a boss. Great fun game.....however..... My main complaint, getting the ending takes FOREVER. A great idle game has good pacing. Yes its a grind, but you get incremental increases every once and a while. This game does that.....for the first 3/4 or so. You can get through 3/4 of the game and fill out about half the skill tree very easily and within about 7-8 hours. The second half of the skill tree takes FOREVER. Especially because every "day" (about 5-10 minutes) you HAVE to click on an upgrade, even when you automate almost everything else.1 found this helpful
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