If you’ve ever dreamed of climbing the corporate ladder in a world where Windows 3.11 reigns supreme and Excel is your deadliest weapon—your time has come. SpreadCheat, a nostalgic, Excel-flavored puzzle game from Norwegian devs Games People Play, is heading to Steam on May 5th, and it’s dripping in vintage office vibes, clunky icons, and retro chaos.
Priced at a cool $6.99 (with a tasty 20% launch discount), SpreadCheat isn’t just any puzzle game—it’s the only spreadsheet puzzler where you sabotage coworkers and impress your sleazy 90s finance bro-boss one formula at a time. It’s basically the Wall Street meets Minesweeper mashup you never knew you needed.
What Is SpreadCheat?
In this delightfully twisted workplace simulator, players solve grid-based logic puzzles in an Excel-style UI, battling everything from malware pop-ups to cursed PowerPoints. As you “work” your way up the corporate food chain, you’ll unlock even more fiendish spreadsheet challenges while dealing with increasingly absurd office antics. It’s a blend of sharp puzzle-solving and satirical storytelling, all wrapped in a crunchy retro wrapper.
Key Features to Crunch On:
- 🧠 Cell-Melting Puzzle Gameplay: Master increasingly complex spreadsheet puzzles in a story mode or dive into daily challenges that will make your actual day job look like a vacation.
- 💼 Corporate Climbing: Suck up, sabotage, and spreadsheet your way to the top in a hilariously toxic 90s office culture simulator.
- 💾 Windows 3.11 Aesthetic: Embrace the glorious limitations of 256-color screens, MIDI bangers, janky email attachments, and a Clippy-like sidekick named Corpy.
- 🧽 90s Office Mayhem: Tackle mid-level distractions like removing malware, cleaning desktops, and pretending to look busy during fake meetings.
- 🎯 Strategic Sabotage: Success isn’t just about numbers—it’s about knowing which colleague to throw under the bus.
With vibes straight out of a dial-up dream and enough spreadsheet wizardry to make your inner office goblin weep with joy, SpreadCheat is a bizarrely charming throwback to when computers were clunky, bosses were shady, and climbing the corporate ladder meant surviving email chain letters.
SpreadCheat launches May 5 on Steam. Wishlist it now and start perfecting your fake productivity face.
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