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A fun game, compared to what I've played of Papers Please this is less focused on finding inconsistencies and more getting into a grove of swiftly categorizing people based on their simple stats and dealing with a constantly changing set of negative features to look out and account for, like having to scan people for radiation and incinerate the ones too far gone or turning off the lights to find people infected with luminescent mushrooms and then waking them off with a spoon. Unlike Papers Please, this game has an entire factory management side which the inspector portion of the game is in service of, as the people you reject are "recycled" into various resources which themselves need to be further refined into more sophisticated resources as the game goes on. These various resources-gathering rooms in the factory are worked by employees, who are also hired from the inspection side of the game.

In general, I think the game integrates it's two halves pretty well. Shifting between your zen-like sorting state on the inspection screen to your more strategic mindset when reorganizing your workforce feels like a fun change of pace, and both sides are fun in their own way. I also liked the games narrative and aesthetics, as while simple they're charming and interesting enough to make you want to learn more about the world and it's ultimate fate.

As for issues, I think the game could really benefit from having an option to automatically optimize your employees for certain resources, having to constantly manually shuffle them around was somewhat tedious. I also wish the game had done more with it's art-style, as while I liked it overall I felt like it could have gone a lot further with it's post-apocalyptic and human-recycling themes. Most buildings and rooms in the game are pretty clean and normal looking, and rarely sell the fact that they take place in a nuclear wasteland or that they were likely made from human flesh. I get the developers not wanting to go too far with these ideas as the game could shift from a relatively-lighthearted black comedy to outright body-horror, but I still think it was a little too tame.

Overall, I'd recommend the game to people like sorting and optimization and are interested in the game's world.

A fun game, compared to what I've played of Papers Please this is less focused on finding inconsistencies and more getting into a grove of swiftly categorizing people based on their simple stats and dealing with a constantly changing set of negative features to look out and account for, like having to scan people for radiation and incinerate the ones too far gone or turning off the lights to find people infected with luminescent mushrooms and then waking them off with a spoon. Unlike Papers Please, this game has an entire factory management side which the inspector portion of the game is in service of, as the people you reject are "recycled" into various resources which themselves need to be further refined into more sophisticated resources as the game goes on. These various resources-gathering rooms in the factory are worked by employees, who are also hired from the inspection side of the game. In general, I think the game integrates it's two halves pretty well. Shifting between your zen-like sorting state on the inspection screen to your more strategic mindset when reorganizing your workforce feels like a fun change of pace, and both sides are fun in their own way. I also liked the games narrative and aesthetics, as while simple they're charming and interesting enough to make you want to learn more about the world and it's ultimate fate. As for issues, I think the game could really benefit from having an option to automatically optimize your employees for certain resources, having to constantly manually shuffle them around was somewhat tedious. I also wish the game had done more with it's art-style, as while I liked it overall I felt like it could have gone a lot further with it's post-apocalyptic and human-recycling themes. Most buildings and rooms in the game are pretty clean and normal looking, and rarely sell the fact that they take place in a nuclear wasteland or that they were likely made from human flesh. I get the developers not wanting to go too far with these ideas as the game could shift from a relatively-lighthearted black comedy to outright body-horror, but I still think it was a little too tame. Overall, I'd recommend the game to people like sorting and optimization and are interested in the game's world.