Overwork Empire

Overwork Empire combines business simulation, tower defense and card play. You run a gaming company as a ruthless entrepreneur through a 20-year cycle, managing its finances, staff and projects while handling challenges that arise each year.

Run the company

At the start of each year, a preparation phase gives you the chance to pay rent, salaries and taxes. If mistakes leave the company short of funds, you can apply for a bank loan, but cannot take out another until the first is repaid. Construction cards expand your site and add facilities, while hiring cards let you recruit employees for project needs. Facilities are divided into R&D, food and server rooms, and you must allocate talent to each department to keep the company running.

The card system includes construction, hiring, trap and skill cards. You can assign skill cards to bosses and management employees. During the year-long work phase, you use their skills on exhausted employees who are trying to escape, forcing them back to their workstations to continue working overtime. Using a skill card costs action points, which regenerate at a rate of one per second.

Develop projects

You can work on multiple projects. When manpower and funding are limited, outsourced projects can help you accumulate funds. Once you meet the required conditions, you can develop projects in-house. Completed in-house projects generate revenue over a sustained period and may be nominated for awards such as Game of the Year.

Winning your first game award draws you into a plagiarism lawsuit and unlocks the plagiarism feature. You can send management staff to infiltrate other companies and steal data, but each instance of plagiarism results in a lawsuit.

Face yearly events

News events appear every year across four sections: Social Welfare, Financial Consulting, Industry News and Company Development. They present challenges to the company's growth as well as new development goals. Completing tasks earns rewards that can unlock company systems to ease the pressure of dealing with these challenges.

Multiple endings

The game has several endings, including bankruptcy, acquisition and a perfect ending.