A Day in a Hell Corp

This is a Twine game where you wake up in hell and things only go worse from there. But that's because you work there. You wander around trying to torment souls efficiently. Depending on how you do, your boss rewards you.

There are different torment areas. Here's the one for gluttons, for instance:

Whoa, that sweet tooth ward, man, it's a real food paradise! Walls covered in big, dripping chocolate cakes and sticky caramel fountains. Wobbly carts full of treats everywhere, with little sweet-tooth devils running around, stealing cream puffs and licking their sticky fingers.

Nurses in ice cream-stained aprons trying to keep things straight, but they just end up slipping on banana peels or diving headfirst into whipped cream pools. Every corner's full of laughs and sugary chaos, a place where even the devil can't say no to another cookie.

Torture Level: [😈😈]

Your trusty... assistant is here!

If you ask about the diet, it tells you:

Man, this week's diet? It's like, welcome to the sweet tooth ward of hell, where every meal's a feast for those gluttony sinners! Day starts with pancakes stacked sky-high, buttery croissants, and hot chocolate thick as lava. Lunch? We're talking towering cakes and chocolate fountains with marshmallows. Snack time? Cream puffs that explode in your mouth and cookies that just call your name. Dinner's the grand finale, with mousse, tiramisu—Italy's legendary coffee-infused dessert—and soufflés that look like magic on a plate. Every meal here's a temptation you can't resist! .

Call me crazy, but these descriptions don't really scream 'hell' to me, especially for gluttons. In this case, we can add some medicine to mess up the food and increase the torture level.

The game was originally written in Italian it seems from the Twine code (which has all passages titled in Italian), which explains the very rare word in Italian that can be seen from time to time.

To me, the game felt like an exploration game, like Alice in Wonderland, just looking at things. That puzzles that are there aren't too tricky; one was labelling things according to a table, most others just depended on the order you clicked links, so it wasn't too bad.

I found that the writing of each sentence was pretty good, although it was kind of choppy with lots of m-dashes and emojis and asking itself questions (like 'Lunch? We're talking towering cakes!'). Different paragraphs didn't seem closely connected, though, and different areas seemed altogether dissonant from each other. It was hard to see the unifying themes; what makes this place hell-like? Why are orcs here? How do the unusual accents of me and my coworker contribute to the game?

The use of colors for text was nice.