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Unemployment Simulator 2018

by Samuel Lehikoinen·published by turbolento publishing

3 February 20268
PCWindows

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How long can you survive unemployment?

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

The Game

Survival
You have stats to manage: the physiological needs of the body, and your mental health. Maintain high dopamine levels 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, ok? Survive the week. It'll get better.

Story-driven
Advance through your personal story. You survived the day? Then you can go to sleep. Something's calling you. 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.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Side view

Languages

8 languages, with audio, subtitles and interface
Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
Chinese (Simplified)
English
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese (Portugal)
Spanish (Spain)

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Released

3 February 2026

Platforms

PCWindows

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Side view2D scrollingDirect control