Eggnog Incorporated sees you double-checking eggnog to make sure it’s good enough to send out to the masses and ensure they enjoy it.
I am a big fan of eggnog. Not the crappy kind you get in the UK that reeks of rum. I mean eggnog that has a bunch of nutmeg notes, with a creamy texture and taste, as a milk drink. The ones they reference in Home Sweet Home Alone. But, I digress. In Eggnog Incorporated, you spend time inspecting batches of eggnog so that they can be sent off to the various shops that stock them.
Eggnog Incorporated is a Papers, Please-inspired game, where you have been given the job of lead Eggnog Inspector. You are handed batches of eggnog and must have a look at the carton, see the color of the drink, and decide the quality. Your quality stamp means a lot! And you need to actually hold your thumb down loads to actually get the stamp (which makes no sense, but maybe this is just really serious business).
Your office sucks, by the way. There are cockroaches crawling around on the walls, which the FDA would have a field day on. Your boss, who is beautifully voice-acted in Russian, seems to have a new strange request every single day. These requests often ask you to do something against your job, with some stupid reason as to why it has happened. An intern dumped a bunch of salt into a batch of nog. Can you just pass it through anyway?
If you haven’t made a bunch of mistakes in your day-to-day job within the game, you can probably afford to let it through. Otherwise, you may not be able to listen. If you do as you are told, you get upgrades to your office. Sometimes these upgrades literally are just cosmetic, and make your terrible space look better, while others actually help out a bit. Sometimes, though, your boss will make your computer slower if you don’t listen.
In Eggnog Incorporated, things slowly become more challenging. You will need to do a bunch of new tests – trying out the flavor, double checking flavor notes, inserting floppy disks, and much more. It becomes quite challenging, especially with your daily quotas to make! My biggest issue with Eggnog Incorporated is how things interact with each other, though. The floppy disk is hard to put into the PC – it almost feels like sometimes the hit boxes are off. The same with the sample in the Robot’s mouth. This can really break the feel of the game, and make things quite hard to do.
Eggnog Incorporated is a really interesting little game, though. There is a lot of fun to be had in checking out the nog, making sure everything is good, and then sending it on it’s way.
Eggnog Incorporated is available now on Steam.
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