
SpreadCheat is a puzzle game that fuses intricate spreadsheet challenges with a comedic, 90s financial vibe in a retro Windows 3.11 setting. The Player takes on the role of the new office prodigy, solving absurd tasks and manipulating spreadsheet cells to hit specific targets using clever formulas.
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Excel and accounting has never been this exhilarating! Dive into SpreadCheat, where thrilling math puzzles await you. Unravel the main story with your spreadsheet skills or solve endless daily challenges. Get ready to turn those numbers into pure excitement!

Step into the fast-paced and finance world of the 90's, and dip into the wonderful world of corporate bro culture. Crunch those numbers, cover for your boss, and climb that corporate ladder. Maybe you'll become a bro one day yourself?

Indulge in the aesthetic pleasure of the ultimate 90's operating system. Complete with MIDI-music, 256 sparkling colors, hilarious e-mail attachments, your own personal genius Clippy-like assistant, Corpy!

Catch a break from cracking numbers by doing fun stuff around the office in a myriad of mid 90's minitasks. Remove malicious malware, clean up dirty desktops and unleash your inner artist by helping your boss figure out PowerPoint!
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil
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Hours played at review time, across 37 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Ok, so I beat everything in under two hours (including hard and impossible modes, but not the streaks). I have to say, the normal campaign is a little too easy, especially with one of the later levels [spoiler] just needing you to put a 1 in every spot [/spoiler]. The hard and impossible modes aren't too much more difficult either (since the impossible levels are randomly generated, sometimes it just gives you the correct number without you having to do anything). I'm not saying the levels should actually be impossible, I was just expecting something a little more challenging, like a bigger spreadsheet or something. Besides the difficultly, I did like the game. The gameplay is fun, the aesthetic is really charming, and Corpy is only slightly annoying.
I've never done any dodgy accounting (or have I?), but I did work in tech in the early 2000s and a lot of this is scarily familiar. I'm struggling to decide whether I recommend this game or not. The puzzling is interesting and a little challenging; Dodgying up those spreadsheets was surprisingly satisfying. But, it definitely has "you needed to be there" vibes. I haven't finished it yet, so I can't say for certain, but it feels like the game is celebrating these things as 'the good old days'. However, in my mind - as a young women working in an office full of men- they were the dark times and I am grateful for the reminder of how far we've come. If you'd like to reminisce about those 90s tech days, this might be for you. Regardless of how we feel, I think we can all relate to the generous overtime "reward" of 2 slices of pizza. Some technical issues I had: - The game doesn't remember your resolution preferences. By default, it is tiny on my 4k screens and I had to go into settings every time I opened it to make it bigger. - F12 screenshots come out black. - The buttons in the top-left corner aren't labelled, and one quits the game without warning. - The game asks for your name and then assume you're a guy the whole time. I'd have been ok with this if we were given a character rather than asking for our names.
[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 6/10[/url]. Satirizes a lot of early-90s UIs very effectively, and does a great send up of unethical corporate culture, at least as defined by Hollywood standards. But as a game it's barely OK. Clearly a mobile port, can't even remember its screen settings between launches, unlocked frame rates (laptop overheating!), and mini-games where the controls seem to barely work. The "game" part is filling in a mini-spreadsheet from a limited set of numbers and formulas to reach the target value. Moderately fun, but clearly just there to break up the jokes. Recommended, but only if you are just here for the laughs and/or nostalgia.
OMFG This game is Hilarious!! I... umm i mean my friend was on my work computer and got some viruses! Great Stuff!! Classic old school windows feel, great game, worth the price! And good music! The music needs to loop and i wish i could resize the work window.
WOW what a GAME, I got to clean desks and make powerpoints, and don't even get me started on the PIZZA!!!!!!!!!
i have no idea what i'm doing :')
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1 year daily achievement. If the game has no "autoboot on startup" that's just awful. The rest of the game is ok, just solving some easy equations with algebra. Wait for sale/bundle.
The spreadsheet puzzles are disappointing: too easy in general, but also inconsistent in their difficulty. The game attempts to tie the puzzles to the loose story through your boss's dialogue, but since the numbers and formulae are random and the rows and columns are unlabeled, it doesn't actually feel like you're doing what you're told you're doing. It's a short game, but if you want to see both endings, you will have to replay all of the same puzzles from the beginning. The two harder difficulties offer no story at all, and the randomized puzzles are no more difficult than usual. For those who care about achievements, note that the game requires you to solve a daily challenge puzzle for 365 days. These puzzles are also no more difficult than usual, and certainly aren't satisfying enough to justify logging in every day to complete them. The events and dialogue aren't noteworthy, but they're narratively sufficient. Without good puzzles, though, they aren't nearly enough to earn the game a recommendation.
It's short and simple enough, had decent charm in the story beats, and "can" avoid getting stale if you take some shortcuts. Overall, it's not remarkable but was fine on a solid launch discount. The core of the game is the small spreadsheets in the trailers, generally simple math but the difficulty curve was erratic in my experience. As for getting stale, there are daily challenge levels and two extra difficulty modes, all just add more of the same. Check the forums if you want to save time on all the achievements, or find your save file.
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