Division of Labour
In Division of Labour, the player takes on the role of The Manager in a developing nation called Auriverde during a world ecological collapse.
The player manages the workforce and machinery of a factory, fulfilling contracts and earning profits for the Overseer Corp. Buying resources, manufacturing goods, managing the workers and facing moral and ethical decisions are the core of the game.
Compassion
The player has the option to make their workers more comfortable to improve efficiency, or pay them more to increase worker happiness. Events may occur where the player can do a favour for a worker, give time off for a holiday or generally try to help them.
Exploitation
However, Overseer Corp always demands larger and larger profits, and so balancing these becomes the core of the game. To make greater and greater profits, more sacrifices will need to be made and corners will need to be cut.
Storytelling
Along the way, the player will be presented with moral and ethical decisions regarding their works and the world at large. Whether it’s simply a worker who needs time of for medical reasons or an earthquake on the other side of the world sending migrants flocking to Auriverde for work and security, there’s always decisions to make.
Development Progress
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The Last Taxi
When a fatally wounded member of an anti-technology cult leaves you with what appears to be an undocumented infant, you’re thrust into a dark network of secrets – unravelling a conspiracy that could shake Progress Point to its core.
The Last Taxi is a narrative-driven adventure game set in Progress Point, a politically and economically-divided sprawling metropolis that has fully embraced automation and human modification, creating a satirical and somberly-surreal vision of the future.
As the last human driver, you’ll meet a diverse cast of passengers, each with their own tailored conversations. Be drawn into morally challenging decisions that lead you into the heart of a dying society.
Narrative Gameplay:
As a taxi driver, your job is to keep passengers comfortable, happy and generous.
Or not?
How you interact with passengers is up to you! With varied dialogue choices and multiple endings, you can choose to keep the tips rolling in or spend all your time insulting them.
But keep in mind, gaining their trust and listening to their problems is a lucrative side business. As per Progress Point’s governmental regulations, all taxis are fitted with sleek, handy, and mandatory listening devices – for uhh… quality assurance.
If your passenger expresses something that isn’t quite above board, you can quietly report it to the authorities for some side cash. Choosing to let some shady business go unnoticed does have its perks, though. And with over 80 diverse characters to chat with, you’ll see all kinds traveling the city.
The World:
In the future, you got what you asked for – Flying cars! Unlimited time for hobbies! And the ultimate hybridization of human and machine! Or was it just flying cars you wanted…
Regardless, life in Progress Point is going pretty great. As the only standing city, we survived environmental and economic collapse because no one from the past changed their small, but destructive habits.
Status quo reigned and we’re the societal afterbirth, filled with various factions that believe in one kooky thing or another, like free will.
Oh, but that makes it sound so bleak. Really, there is a bright side.
No one needs to work anymore! The brunt of the workforce has been given to automatons …Well, unless you personally didn’t harbor a vault of cash before the collapse. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you’ll still need to find some way to make an income, pay the bills, and find your niche in a world run by automation. As a human, you’ll just have to be creative and think outside the processor.
Features:
• Earn tips by navigating through 80 treacherous, quirky, and haunting choice-driven passenger conversations.
• Aid and abet criminal passengers, help them reconsider their actions, or report them to the authorities.
• Upgrade your taxi with new tools allowing for hijacking cargo, hacking toll booths, enhanced customer experience and more!
• Maximize fares by managing malfunctioning equipment, avoiding environmental hazards, and keeping your passengers comfortable.
• Experience a rich and detailed world of technological headquarters, mountaintop temples, sunken metropolises and pirate-infested underworlds.
• 10 hours of gameplay with 20+ unique choice-driven endings.
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Anton
In the year 2399, automation is rife, every sector across all areas of industry have been automated with just a handful of jobs available to man.
There was no robot uprising or sudden change of power that was expected in the late 20th century, but a gradual erosion of jobs and the crawling growth of vast automated industrial complexes working tirelessly and efficiently, more than man could ever have hoped for.
This should have been a future of hope and prosperity, instead man is relegated to the side lines, a bored consumer, barely able to make ends meet and clamouring for just one of the few remote jobs still available to them.
You’re one of the lucky ones, you’ve been selected from 10s of 1000’s to start as a remote CCTV operator, man’s value now is so low that it is more efficient to have man controlling remote CCTV cameras than to automate them.
Your role is simple, to mark any Automaton units for the recycling program that have malfunctioned or that have hit SAT (Self Awareness Threshold), today is your first day, you connect remotely to the AMI Industrial Complex…
Features
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Control a remote CCTV drone camera allowing you a unique view into an automated industrial complex
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Hack devices in the world through a series of ever more complex interfaces
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Interact with and reprogram devices and automatons
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Converse with automatons through the branching narrative system
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Delve into the Cybersphere, the central data matrix that shows all the accessible data nodes with a complex through the BotOS 2395 operating system
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Unravel the truth behind this vast automated empire.
Look for the Anton 2 Level Demo on STEAM
FInd a Level 1 Spoiler Playthrough at the end of the screen shots if you’re stuck
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Cinema Simulator
This game gives you exactly what you would expect, which is perfect
the movies dont lose much quality when on the big screen, and overall, the game does its job well.
there are a few things i think could benefit the game, such as more options for height, clothing and food/drink
other than those few minor thoughts, i recommend this for sure
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
I love the concept so much I don’t regret buying but this desperately needs VR support and maybe a mini movie arcade to increase immersion.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Pumping Simulator
Where would I start, I am pleasantly surprised, there are not many on steam like this immersive life simulations if you will. Perhaps this could be even called the most immersive of all of them, it is detailed , has a lot of well working features (maybe not some that much detailed as “Live the life” game but its more immersive)
and a few very interesting ideas (positives):,
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along helping recruited npc employees, taking fuel from supply cars into the petrol pump.
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unique idea - The goods you buy into your shop can be placed at once from a box just placing a box onto the shelves, they are automatically arranged into any shelf or fridge box, as you pull it over the shelf, once all are placed, the original wooden transparent box is automatically destroyed, and on the other side can be put out and consumed from the shelf one by one.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME DEVS ARE PATHETIC AND HAVE ALREADY LIED TO EVERYONE THEY SAID THEY WOULD FIX THIS GAME TO MAKE IT FULL AND BUG FREE AND THEY HAVE MOVED ON TO ANOTHER BUGGED OUT SHIT HEAP DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME
THIS GAME FEATURES
MAJOR, MINOR BUGS THE WHOLE GAME
NO GOOD CONTENT CONTENT IN GAME IS EXTREMELY BUGGY
THE GAME CRASHES CONSTANTLY WHEN PLAYING WITH OTHERS
DEVS ARE USELESS AND REFUSE TO LISTEN TO BUG REPORTS
THIS IS A WASTE OF MONEY AT ITS BEST
LOOK FOR A GAME CALLED GAS STATION SIMULATOR ITS 100% AND STILL BEING BUILT BY A WELL KNOWN TEAM WHO ARE TRUSTED AND HELP COMMUNITY
– Real player with 22.4 hrs in game