CorpoNation: The Sorting Process Review (augmentate)
Incredibly boring and samey after a few weeks, completely misunderstands the appeal of games like Papers Please. If the attempt was to make the most boring game possible to reflect corporate life then it was a success, but if fun was intended then it is an abject failure. In Papers Please, you learn about the people of the world through mini-stories, individuals who test your morality. In this game, stories are told through little dialogue boxes with wholly unconvincing characters.
Not only is the gameplay bad, it constantly crashes or softlocks at the lightest touch. Also it has just straight up Solitaire with the most minor of differences and expects you to play it every in-game day.
The currency system is also done badly. I hate to keep comparing it to Papers Please, but since this is the game Corponation chose to emulate, I have to. In Papers Please, the currency system is well done, on a first playthrough the player almost always has to decide between heat, food, and medicine, creating actual choice. In this game, you gain so many credits that the bills are nearly irrelevant.
Major Story Spoilers ahead:
All of this could be saved if the overarching rebellion story that is a staple of these games was done well. Unfortunately, it is the same-old "join a rebellious group and do tasks for them" style. The two "big twists" of the game are that 1. you are making humans (obvious from week 1, you literally work at the genome plant) and that 2. the rebellion group is actually controlled by the corpo, which is only unexpected because of how incredibly stupid it is. No endings have any impact, which I'm sure made the author pat themselves on the back for their edgy nihilistic worldview, but after slogging through the terrible gameplay and story, including a purposefully bad ending just makes the player feel like they've wasted all of their time.
All in all, this game is the prime example of trying to create a new spin on an old classic by first removing everything that made it fun and then adding mindless slop to pad the runtime. Just go play papers please again, I promise you it'll be 10x funner than this game.