2024-01-19 09:52:17
Developer Unhinged Studios has released a new Roguelike card game “dev_hell”, which is expected to be released on Steam in 2024. Players play the role of new employees of the new technology startup “CodeNOW” and use different combinations of skills to work hard in a high-pressure environment to avoid being fired.
The protagonist applies for a job as a software developer, only to discover that he has been trapped by a shady company. Although the company is close to a subway station, has endless coffee and a clean office environment, all the development costs of the IT industry fall on his shoulders: rushing to work overtime, sinister… Workplace culture, boss pressure…it’s basically a developer simulation game.
“dev_hell” is played in a card-based game. Each solution is a card, which is divided into main development, office business (My Desk), work partners and planning. Players must place their own cards and properly invest in production capacity.
Completing development can obtain different production capacity rewards.
Development services such as Spaghetti code, Bandaid Solution, etc., as well as situations such as grammatical errors, formatting problems, severe hacking, etc., and options such as “Blame” or lofi music to indicate This position consumes a lot of mental energy. If you are not careful and your work performance is evaluated poorly, you will be fired.
Since “dev_hell” focuses on “Roguelike” games, players may be fired again and again, and face new challenges every time they go to work. The cutscenes in the trailer show various office situations. The expression models of colleagues and supervisors are not particularly detailed, but they are quite good with the lines. There is drama.
The development team recommends that players obtain new cards from colleagues. In addition to normal interactions (chatting or completing requests), they can also reveal people’s scars and secrets to obtain new cards. Mods can be installed on the cards to obtain new functions to strengthen the strategy of playing cards. challenge.
In the main plot, it was officially revealed that the black-hearted startup CodeNOW has hidden secrets, its customers are shrouded in mystery, and there are disturbing narratives hidden between the lines of the program code.
CodeNOW encourages employees to spend money at its own concession stand.
However, asking questions will only arouse the resentment of the senior management. In their eyes, the player is just a social beast, hired to meet the company’s endless expectations and write code with unknown purpose. This game allows players to understand the price of working in an IT company. Survival is just the basics, digging out the truth about CodeNow is the ultimate goal.
“dev_hell” is expected to be released on Steam in 2024. The first half of the Steam page is written like an HR recruitment announcement. Readers are recommended to read it. “Please note: This position requires handling sensitive data. CodeNow will take appropriate measures to ensure information security.”
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