Overemployed Empire by JOrbits
Overemployed Empire
In Overemployed Empire your goal is to retire early. Try to juggle as many jobs as possible to collect more paychecks.
Use your money to buy upgrades and reach your goal of early retirement.


| Link | https://jorbits.itch.io/overemployed-empire |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/overemployed-empire |
Ratings
| Overall | 5th | 4.439⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 6th | 4.439⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 8th | 4.317⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 74th | 4.22⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 179th | 4.146⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 82th | 4⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 7th | 4.524⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 23th | 4.39⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 36🗨️ |
The only slightly annoying thing is the slow scrolling in the offers window (if you scroll with the mouse wheel). Otherwise, it's a great game!
It would be nice to have some background music, though.
This was a blast! I really liked juggling calls and applying for new ones not knowing if i would be able to handle all the clicking. Really polished and tons of fun, the progression is great for gametime and I love the old windows aesthetic. Excellent entry :smile:

Love from the same computer art

Glad you all enjoyed the game so far!
Very simple but addictive in the best way possible! The voice recordings are genius. I would not be suprised to see this among the top ranks!
This is my favourite game so far. This is absolutely incredible work :rofl:
But I still love this game


At first I thought I could actually type the email haha

I love that there is a built in tension between getting more jobs and keeping up with all the calls. I enjoyed the outrageous cover letters, though I didn't really have time to read most of them.
Super fun!
I managed to apply for every job pretty much immediately and only got fired once. The challenge would be a bit higher with one or two more mechanics for keeping a job (i'm sure there was no time for it though) sprinkled in.
But seriously even though the gameplay is simple there are so many lovely details that it doesn't get boring at all (also you are kinda stressed - who figured?). I love the ultra confident tone in which we write the letters. The OS aesthetic was great, you even have a background colour option.
And finally the ending being part of the upgrade system is a really clever way to tell us what we are working towards, and the upgrades themselves were also cool (though the no timeout one is a bit extreme imo).