History VideoGame / JobSimulator

''Job Simulator'', alternatively titled ''Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives'', is a first-person VR game. The game is available for [[UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}} Playstation VR]], Platform/HTCVive, Platform/OculusRift, and [=SteamVR=].

** The cartridges resemble [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] cartridges. The modifier cartridges that you can use after completing all four jobs resemble adapter cartridges, like Game Genie, both in look and function.

* ShaggyDogStory:
** Throughout the years, Owlchemy Labs employees stated that there was a secret hidden somewhere in Job Simulator. In September 2020, fans at the Owlchemy Labs Discord server finally found the secret, which was [[spoiler:a teaser for VacationSimulator-- but by the time they found the secret, Vacation Simulator was already announced, released, and had even got DLC released for it!]]

''Job Simulator'', alternatively titled ''Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives'', is a first-person VR game. The game is available for [[UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}} Playstation VR]], UsefulNotes/HTCVive, UsefulNotes/OculusRift, and [=SteamVR=].

[[caption-width-right:350: Meet [=JobBot=]. He'll be your guide today.]]

!!''Job Simulator'' provides examples of:

* EndlessGame: Infinite Overtime where you and [=TempBot=] run the nightshift of any of the four jobs, completing randomly generated tasks of various types. The only way to be done is to eat the exit burrito.

* FutureImperfect: The simulations are... less than accurate to the actual time periods than the simulations suggest. One example is the characters believe that "burning" a CD literally involves putting it on a flame or that microwaves are actually nuclear and mutate ingredients into the resultant food such as pizza and cake.

* KarmaHoudini: Bandito can get away with his crimes, a couple which are preventable. In the convenience store simulation, you can turn him over when a police officer with three suspects comes into the store. However, you can choose one of the other two and let the real thief get away. In the auto mechanic one, though, Bandito gets away with having you redesign his car and give him a new license plate and he and Sleazebot almost get away with selling another robot’s car.

** PlayedForLaughs. Bot dialogue is normally smooth until they reach a [VARIABLE] within their dialogue which is in a higher or lower pitched MachineMonotone. They're also sometimes grammatically incorrect such as with "I'm trying to cut down on [GLUTEN], but that looks very [SANDWICH]".

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: While working in the restaurant sim, you end up filming a RealityShow with an expy of Creator/GordonRamsay. Fortunately his on-camera demeanor hides that he’s [[MeanCharacterNiceActor actually quite friendly.]]
** The cartridges resemble [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] cartridges. The modifier cartridges you can use after completing all four jobs resemble adapter cartridges, like Game Genie, both in look and function.

** Throughout the years, Owlchemy Labs employees stated that there was a secret hidden somewhere in Job Simulator. In September 2020, fans at the Owlchemy Labs Discord server finally found the secret, which was [[spoiler:a teaser for VacationSimulator—but by the time they found the secret, Vacation Simulator was already announced, released, and had even got DLC released for it!]]

** The cartridges resemble [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom]] cartridges. The modifier cartridges you can use after completing all four jobs resemble adapter cartridges, like Game Genie, both in look and function.
** One of the paper bags has Apu's {{catchphrase}} from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on it--"Thank You! Come Again!"

* StandardOfficeSetting: The office recreation in ''Job Simulator'' looks like an office from the 1980s or 1990s. Motivational posters are everywhere and everyone works in cubicles with box monitor computers.

* TotemPoleTrench: More like Totem Pole Cardboard. During [CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK], you find a suspicious adult bot that isn't just [[BlatantLies three more recently manufactured bots stacked on top of each other adorned with cardboard and drawn on to look like an adult bot]]. "He" asks for fireworks before giving you a fishy ID card that comes up as incorrect then hands you another one that passes as legit. [=JobBot=] says the technology doesn't lie but before you can sell the pyrotechnic devices, their disguise falls apart and they run for it.

** This extends into the teaser page of the upcoming ''Vacation Simulator'' where the mad libs are [CAPITAL] and [GRAMMAR ERROR].

* ShoutOut:

** PlayedForLaughs. The dialogue is smooth until the Mad Libs portion. They're also sometimes grammatically incorrect such as with "I'm trying to cut down on GLUTEN. That looks very SANDWICH".
** This extends into the teaser page of the upcoming ''Vacation Simulator'' where the mad libs are CAPITAL and GRAMMAR ERROR.
** This is brilliantly used to mask the nature of Infinite Overtime's random tasks with bots asking a random combination of items that are MAD LIB.

* TotemPoleTrench: More like Totem Pole Cardboard. During CONVENIENCE STORE CLERK, you find a suspicious adult bot that isn't just [[BlatantLies three more recently manufactured bots stacked on top of each other adorned with cardboard and drawn on to look like an adult bot]]. "He" asks for fireworks before giving you a fishy ID card that comes up as incorrect then hands you another one that passes as legit. [=JobBot=] says the technology doesn't lie but before you can sell the pyrotechnic devices, their disguise falls apart and they run for it.

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* WorkInfoTitle: The game has its genre in its title.

** In Office Worker, a disc for ''[[VideoGame/FlappyBird Flappy Bot]]'' is on the desk.

A sequel called ''VideoGame/VacationSimulator'' was released Arpil, 2019

[[caption-width-right:350: Meet Job Bot. He'll be your guide today.]]

* BrandX: The game features a lot of this. "Gigabite" electromint-flavored gum instead of Extra mint-flavored gum, "Thyme" magazine instead of ''Time'', "Triangle" chips instead of Doritos chips, "[=PowerDot=]" instead of PowerPoint, and several others.

** ''This Is: Totally Disco'' Vol. 98 seems to be a parody of ''Now That's What I Call Music''.

* BrandX: The game features a lot of this. "Gigabite" electromint-flavoured gum instead of Extra mint-flavoured gum, "Thyme" magazine instead of ''Time'', "Triangle" chips instead of Doritos chips, "[=PowerDot=]" instead of Power Point, and several others.

* DevelopersForesight:
** The copier machine can not just copy paper, but also other objects. If you stick your head in it, your "brain" will virtually print out.
** Copying money results in it being labeled as counterfeit.
** Copying [=CDs=] will indicate that [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil the software is pirated.]]
* EasterEgg: The clock in the office has a note saying "Can't believe you'd TAKE the TIME to read this!" on the back.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: While working in the restaurant sim, you end up filming a RealityShow with an expy of Creator/GordonRamsay. Fortunately his on-camera demeanor hides a MeanCharacterNiceActor.

* BrandX: The game features a lot of this. "Gigabite" electromint-flavoured gum instead of Extra mint-flavoured gum, "Thyme" magazine instead of ''Time'', "Triangle" chips instead of Doritos chips, [=PowerDot=]" instead of Power Point, and several others.
* DevelopersForesight: The copier machine can not just copy paper, but also other objects. If you stick your head in it, your "brain" will virtually print out.

** PlayedForLaughs. The dialogue is smooth until the Mad Libs portion. They're also sometimes grammatically wrong such as with "I'm trying to cut down on GLUTEN. That looks very SANDWICH".

* VomitIndiscretionShot: If you eat moldy or rotten food, or drink something not fit for human consumption, you'll projectile vomit.