Lucky me has the dubious honour of writing the first review for "The Process: Need a Job?".
"The Process: Need a Job?" is, well, kind of a joke game I guess, it's supposed to make you laugh at how frustrating employment can be... it's really nonsensical despite effort going into this, at least part of it would be sloppy English translation. It's a "job simulator" where you're stuck at a desk and have to survive until you get angry enough to quit. Survival is a matter of mucking around with a couple of desktop simulators, playing some very lame minigames... really, it's not fun, and I hope my description didn't mislead anyone into thinking it might be.
Part of the reason it's just not fun is how badly built it is. Quality matters. Part of the reason games from Blizzard, Rockstar, Bioware and all the other superstars of gaming do so well is because they're usually so well polished. They look great, they feel great to play. "The Process: Need a Job?" looks awful, and feels awful to play.
So if you came across this game wondering if it's some hidden gem and nobody discovered it yet, that's not the case. People understandably ignored this game because, quite simply, it's just bad.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak player count was only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
"The Process: Need a Job?" has the laughable, eye-watering price of around $6 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
For comparison, the $6 asking price for this game could get you games like "Pillars of Eternity II", "Cities: Skylines" or "Monster Hunter World". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
[quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b]
Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
