Ring in items. Take the money. Go home. Come back to work. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat, even as the world burns around you.
Need a packet? follows Molly, a cashier, through her trials at work, or lack thereof. Mostly, it’s about ringing items through, the steady beep of the scanner boring into your skull. When not taking cash and scanning customers’ useless junk, you can go home, fiddling around your apartment as you wait for work to begin again. Then, it’s just a simple danger-filled commute, all filled with the endless drone of frightening news cycles and distractions on your phone.
It’s not long before you will begin to succumb to the routine of it all. Things appear normal, but tedious at first, but a subtle menace creeps into Need a packet? and works to erode reality in a hurry. The cash register is a medieval tower beset by dragons and beasts out to kill you. Colossal monstrosities assault your bus on the way to work. Disturbing imagery appears throughout your day, shifting the dull normalcy into something terrifying.
As a garbage crisis hits the city, literally poisoning and rotting it, the endless stream of customers still comes in, looking to buy their junk as Molly’s sense of reality falls apart. Need a packet? is a chilling look at the things we must do to survive, and the mental wage we pay to hold them down as the world seems to be dying around us.
Need a packet? is available for $6.99 on Steam.
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