New release: Unemployment Quest
The game’s premise is all but spelled out in the title. DeYoe writes:
Unemployment Quest is a game about the experience of unemployed youth.
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The story is minimalistic as the game is not about an epic adventure so much as trying to reach a very simple goal.
Instead of fighting typical fantasy monsters, your foes will include “Doubts,” “Isolation,” “Shame,” and the main villain “Uncertain Future.”
Unemployment Quest managed to haul in more than $10,000 in Kickstarter funding by its deadline of May 20, which is pretty impressive considering that it’s an RPG Maker game using the default sprites and tilesets. I think that speaks pretty powerfully to how many people out there feel some connection with the game’s conceit.
Here is a trailer that goes to great lengths to point out how late I am in covering it:
Unemployment Quest has a free demo available; if you like what you see, you can get the full game for Windows for a flat $5.00.
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This game is absolutely terrible. There are dozens of free rpg maker games that are million times better.
You are so right rumpus. But people are stupid so they pay money to buy these mediocre games.