Red Accent Studios’ satirical PlayStation VR game Salary Man Escape has been released.
The physics-based VR Puzzle game involves helping an employee escape a surreal work environment. Completing a level rewards you with a “motivational” phrase related to the puzzle solution, and faintly barbed with the monotony, endlessness, and entrapping nature of work.
Here’s a rundown on the game:
Life’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.
Tired of work? Feeling trapped at your position with no hope of promotion? Vent out your deepest frustrations with Salary Man Escape, a satirical and edgy VR physics puzzle game about helping a disgruntled Salaryman escape his miserable life, created by Red Accent Studios.
Through clever physics interactions and manipulation of different bricks and platforms, players must reorganize an edifice of unstable bricks, in order to create a route for the salaryman to reach the exit.
Key Features:
- Unique VR Perspective: With the freedom of movement in VR, players are provided a perfect 360-degree perspective of the puzzle, which allows for an special 3D puzzling experience
- Physics-Dependent Puzzling: Solving puzzles in Salary Man Escape is all about leveraging physics properties, such as weight, balance and force; each individual playthrough will never behave exactly the same, and so players must expend their creative energies to discover the best solution forward.
- Edgy art style, ’80s Japan soundtrack: The game features a minimalistic, monochromatic visual style, contrasted with a cheerful, classic ’80s Japanese soundtrack, to evoke and symbolize the bleak, yet often ironic and humorous existence that is the “Salary Man.”
- 6 Chapters, 78 Levels: The game features over 8 hours of gameplay, with 6 chapters, 60 basic levels, and 18 PS4™-exclusive hidden levels. Each chapter introduces a brand-new puzzle mechanic to the mix, making puzzle progression increasingly more complex and difficult.
- Unlock hidden levels and achievements: Unlock hidden levels (which feature special mechanics) by collecting the coins scattered throughout the previous levels, often in off-path locations. Complete all levels to earn special achievements and bragging rights.
