Endless Monday Visual Novel: A Commentary on AI and Corporations
Screenshot of Endless Monday Main Menu by hcnone Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines and Overtime allows players to navigate as Penny, an office worker in the Creative department who has a bad habit of procrastinating her projects. Players get to decide when she focuses on her work and when she gets distracted—and which distractions to embrace. Already, this sounds so relevant to many people in this type of job, especially in this technological era where it's commonplace to claim you have "the attention span of a goldfish" (or a dog because—"Squirrel!"). While this Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) visual novel game starts off as a typical office day, it starts to veer into the realm of absurd and "just-go-with-it" thinking, revealing that working in a colorless workplace may not be good for one's mental health and that strange things are happening behind closed corporate doors. After playing Endless Monday , I see it as a satirical, meta, and...