Try Unemployment Simulator 2018 now with this action-packed demo, and experience a few days in the meticulously detailed life of the unemployed!

The year is 2018. You are trapped in a single-bedroom apartment somewhere in an undisclosed Nordic welfare state. Your objective is simply to survive in the mind-numbing loop of long-term social isolation.

Survival elements

Story-driven progression

A roguelite loop

Handcrafted pixelart

Multiple endings

Comedy, drama, and maybe trauma

Roguelite survival

You have stats to manage, the physiological needs of the body, and your mental health. Keep your dopamine levels high to avoid a literal death by boredom. Eat, drink (responsibly), use the toilet, wash yourself, hide from responsibilities and keep yourself sufficiently entertained. Just stay alive, okay? Or you’ll start all over again.

Story-driven

Advance through your personal story by completing painfully tedious tasks, and uncover the secrets of your apartment. Hunt for clues, interpret signs, explore your dreams—and find yourself. The world outside is cruel. You don't want to be cruel too, right?

Adult life simulation

Complete painfully tedious tasks, like brushing your teeth, doing the laundry, and sending out job applications. Looking for a job is a job after all. Then, when all your tasks for the day are checked, go to sleep. You’ll find an escape in your dreams. It’s when you sleep that you are most alive. In fact, you can be anything in your dreams. A salaryman. A husband. A hero!

Until the alarm goes off again.