Mike from Twinfinite writes, "One intrepid office worker (that’s you…pay attention) sees what’s happening, and takes action at beating back the horde with anything he can find. Let’s be clear; imagine Office Space crossed with Dead Rising, and that’s pretty much all you need to know about Corporate Lifestyle Simulator."
Whether they know it or not, these two games have a lot to say about contemporary capitalism, nihilism, and game design.
Continue Play's Jay Adams takes a look at bignic's isometric office-based shoot-em-up, Corporate Lifestyle Simulator, which takes the term "office zombies" a bit literally.
In recent months it has become fashionable to append the word ‘Simulator’ to games that are nothing of the sort. It sort of began with Surgeon Simulator, but has moved on to such a point that gamers are currently eagerly awaiting a copy of Bear Simulator whilst wondering if they should give Goat Simulator a try.
It was inevitable that at some point somebody would combine the industry’s most over-used concept with the industry’s newest tired and overplayed joke and so from the digital ether came Corporate Lifestyle Simulator, a game that has very little to do with corporate lifestyles, nothing to do with simulators, and quite a lot to do with shooting a ridiculous number of moaning zombified freaks.