Summary
Keeping a job isn’t always easy, especially if you’re terrible at it. In video games, we’re used to getting game overs, failing, and having to try again, but not every virtual employer is willing to let you go at the drop of a hat.
No matter how bad at your job you might be, no matter how much you screw up, and no matter how grossly unqualified you really are, these video games will see you get hired, and stay hired. Hooray for job security!
Job Simulator is aneducational experiencefrom the future, which sees you travel to specialized museum exhibits to relive what the game refers to optimistically as “the glory days of work”. you’re able to tell it’s from the future because the only time anybody would ever describe clocking in as “the glory days” is at least ten years after they’ve retired.
It doesn’t really matter if you’re good at the job you select or not in Job Simulator, because the jobs themselves are all risk-free simulations. Sure, the game might say “you’re fired” on occasion, but you can always try again, no matter how many customers you accidentally kill at the restaurant, or how slow a scanner you are. Nowthisis the kind of day job we can get behind!
Agent 47 is the greatest assassin the world has ever known. He can stand idly by while someone runs near a swimming pool, because he’s just finished greasing the water and spreading extra banana peels all over the premises. He knows all the best ways to say ‘oops’ after pushing someone over a particularly high-up ledge.Heknows all of this.You, on the other hand…
You might have to accidentally take care of some ‘extra targets’ every now and then, infiltrate a top-secret meeting dressed as a literal circus clown, and occasionally just punch the wrong person and initiate a war-starting gunfight, but that’s alright. You’re Agent 47. The best in the biz, and not at all the worst hitman of all time that keeps getting jobs for reasons unknown.
It’s nice to pick up a shift or two in Kerbal Space Program and launch rockets without testing anything. The Kerbals are very supportive coworkers, and they’re always happy to explode a little orlaunch a rocketthat could end an entire civilization without a care in the world. If there was ever a game where it was okay to be a rocket scientist who’s never studied rocket science, this is it.
To be fair, not everyone who plays Kerbal Space Program is actually bad at their job, and a good number of players have managed to create engineering marvels that are literally out of this world, but unfortunately for the Kerbals, not everybody who jumps in has that kind of brilliance at their disposal.
3Moving Out 2
Let’s Clean Out That Apartment
Moving Out and its incredible sequel made it clear that the ‘dysfunctional co-op occupation’ style of game popularized by Overcooked is here to stay, and while that spells certain doom for the furniture of anyone who lives in the game’s fictional neighborhood, it spells a good time for pretty much everyone else.
You and a friendwill take on the role of newly hired professional movers, and as such, you’ll soon find yourselves snowboarding down the stairs at a regal manor, throwing expensive televisions and couches out glass windows from the second floor, and figure out how exactly to get all that junk packed up into your woefully undersized moving van.
No matter how good at cooking you might think you are, Overcooked 2 will prove you wrong eventually. Tasked to cook for your life against a coming apocalypse, nobody who plays this game stays calm for long, and the resulting chaos isgreat for fans of multiplayer games. Of course, you can fail levels here, but you never end up fired or let go from your position as pro chef.
It could be reasonably argued that none of the chefs in Overcooked 2, even when performing at their peak, are actually good at their jobs. Good at flinging fire extinguishers across the kitchen? Yes. Good at yelling at their friends for doing the wrong tasks at the wrong time? Absolutely. Good at cooking? Not a chance.
Dr. Mario is the most famous medical professional in gaming today, aside from maybe that surgeon Joel took out at the end of The Last Of Us Part 1. With that kind of fame, you’d expect that when you play Dr. Mario you’re playing as a trained specialist who knows exactly how to handle each and every patient that comes your way. Instead, Dr. Mario endlessly shoves pills down people’s throats.
If you did that in real life, getting fired would be the least of your worries, and you could probably expect at least half a dozen wrongful death suits. In the Mushroom Kingdom, however, Dr. Mario continues to show up for work only once in a blue moon, and engage in the exact same harmful practices each and every time. It might make for a fun puzzle game, but it also makes for a very poor doctor that never seems to get fired for his actions.
