Games Like Something Really Evil Inc.

You had a boring job. Then someone lured you to the sewer.

Yvonne runs this company. Your job is to make sure her workers never finish anything. Her short temper can be exploited to turn the public against a heartless yet charismatic CEO.

Something Really Evil Inc. is a real-time roguelike about hacking an office. Every run starts with access to a new floor, and a new project nearing completion.

The Crew

Get to know your fellow hackers! Hank writes the hacks and hands you the day's options. Gina takes credit for the good ideas, some of it deserved. Piper is Yvonne's personal assistant, which is exactly as useful as it sounds. Fluffypaw tinkers around and helps power you up! Get to know everyone and utilize each of them to their fullest potential!

Hack the office

Workers generate office points by doing their jobs. Too many points and the project ships and you lose. So you go after the things they use.

Computers, the vending machine, the water cooler, the conference table — each has slots, and you fill those slots with hacks:

Some hacks fire on their own. Others are triggered manually. Some hacks can even be mutated together to combine or create new functionality!

Trinkets

Between days, Fluffypaw offers you a choice of trinkets. They all do different things and can influence the direction of your run.

Make it to the end

Distract workers while remaining undetected for long enough and their project will be officially delayed, improving the world a little bit at a time. Be careful of the boss who is brought in on the last day to make sure the project gets completed!

Then do it again, but harder

Win a run and you unlock the next Ascension: unique challenges that make it harder and harder to achieve victory. Can you complete them all?

Yvonne is going to be furious. That's the point.