Thank You For Your Application on PC (Goldberg)

Get into the largest company in Aeropolis City, reviewing applicants’ resumes and documents according to strict and constantly changing hiring requirements, before making decisions that may alter the course of other people’s lives. Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters. Throughout the game, players will encounter a wide range of applicants, absurd corporate systems, ever-changing policy demands, and the company’s dark secrets gradually coming to light. Against a backdrop of dark humour and corporate drudgery, players must make choice after choice in their everyday working life.

Decide the fate of job applicants: As an interviewer, will you side with capital and the rules, or give workers the green light? Exercise your tiny slice of corporate power: Check application documents, raise questions, make judgements — and even shock applicants with electricity. A bleak apartment life after work: Pay your bills, browse forums, buy daily necessities, and try to keep your mental state intact. Multiple-ending narrative: Exploring themes such as workplace discipline, the shame of unemployment, efficiency-first thinking and discrimination against outsiders, your choices will shape the direction of the story.

Screen candidates’ resumes and documents according to the company’s daily hiring requirements, then decide whether to accept or eliminate them. Check their internship certificates. We want graduates with experience. Check their Psychological Evaluation Report. We want employees with a stable state of mind. “Thank you for your application” is the same concept as “Papers, Please” by Lucas Pope. If you enjoyed “Papers, Please”, you will enjoy this game and the other way around.

Basically, you play a recruiter in a dystopic Tech company, and you have to check the applications for errors, missing documents, etc. Sometimes, NPCs will ask you for help or to let someone pass the interview to achieve certain goals. So you have to make decisions, and the ending of Thank You For Your Application will vary depending on the choices you make along the way. Besides, you have to pay your rent and other expenses, so there are important decisions to make. Most of the story is conveyed through text messages, emails, directives, and dialogues. As a result, if you don’t enjoy reading texts, then Thank You For Your Application probably isn’t for you.