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It Makes for Painful Work

In It Makes for Painful Work, you spend a few days as a contract worker in a late-capitalist hellscape where you'll do fun things such as customer service, review AI training data, and vote for slogans made by…

31 May 2025

It Makes for Painful Work is an indie developed by zorkie studios, released 31 May 2025 on Web browser.

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What It Makes for Painful Work is

It Makes for Painful Work is an indie game developed by zorkie studios and released in 2025. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on Twine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In It Makes for Painful Work, you spend a few days as a contract worker in a late-capitalist hellscape where you'll do fun things such as customer service, review AI training data, and vote for slogans made by terrible AIs.
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How it plays

Its themes are business and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

It Makes for Painful Work launched on 31 May 2025, within three weeks of Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Elden Ring Nightreign.

Released around the same time: Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Elden Ring Nightreign.

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When did It Makes for Painful Work come out?
It Makes for Painful Work was released on 31 May 2025 for Web browser.

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