What a Shitty Job

What a Shitty Job is a 2D top-down survival action game with a small amount of Roguelite elements. You play as an employee fighting to survive a cruel workplace, using work and life skills to defeat hostile colleagues, leaders and the company’s big boss. Characters represent different positions in a game company, each with its own combat abilities.

Workplace enemies

Dozens of colleagues with different abilities try to stop you. As you grow stronger, you may also face more than a dozen bosses, including leaders and other powerful figures who are harder to defeat than ordinary colleagues. They use everything they can against you as you become a bigger threat.

Weapons and positions

The game offers more than a dozen starting weapons based on familiar work items, such as mice, keyboards and drinking cups. You can transform weapons as you progress, improving their capabilities or changing their forms and functions; each weapon has different evolutionary branches.

You can play as 40 or more positions, each with its own passive traits and starting skill. You begin with the initial positions and unlock more as you progress, including middle-management, management and administrative roles.

Skills and abilities

You can learn dozens of skills, upgrade them and combine them for stronger effects. Repeatedly learning skills can produce additional effects, and certain combinations may become new skills.

Skills also improve five abilities: creativity, aesthetics, logic, workplace and life. Each ability brings different mechanics and effects at different levels, shaping your combat and upgrade strategies. You can specialize in one ability or develop several.

Weekends and events

After each round of battle, you reach the weekend and choose how to spend your free time. You can shop on your phone, modify weapons, study to learn skills, eat out or shop with friends, or sleep in. You can also spend time with a special companion at home, which may bring good luck.

Special events can occur each week and affect the course of the battle. These may include heavy rain, a new leader arriving, traffic making you late, a power outage, changes to the company’s overtime schedule or a rise in pork prices.