It's really solid, but it's got quite a lot of missed opportunities. The biggest one was when I saw the lip monster lady on the HR floor and my mind was blown because I felt like I knew what was coming. That's because before or after the whole fiasco with the lip lady, it was specified that the witch could only be a woman and I had the biggest light bulb pop out of my cranium because I remembered so much of the cast were women, and then I thought that, "Oh Shit! All the chicks are gonna betray me and then Brian Pasternack will turn into Devil Man and go through all the floors and hunt all of them down in their specific floors they occupy like the lip lady, kind of like a boss rush formula! This is dope AF yo!" But that ain't the case at all, and I really wished that it was the case. I still thoroughly enjoyed the game though, even if it gets way too esoteric in terms of quest design smtimes.

I feel like if there was a sequel, or if it was 50% longer (give or take) there could have been more build-up, world-building, and more profound character arcs set up here to set it apart from many other indie titles.

Yuppie Psycho is a game that first came into my vision via OneyPlays, where I was quickly hooked by its world and made the decision to play it for myself eventually. Now, I am playing it, and I can say it’s pretty damn good.

Yuppie Psycho’s genre is hard to describe. The game describes itself as a “first job survival horror”, but it’s not like a typical game in the survival horror genre. Though it features many staples such as inventory management and tense encounters, outside of this the game controls like a typical RPGMaker game (though it was not made in that engine). You walk around from a top-down perspective and analyze the world around you, talking to characters and the like. The switches between these two tones are almost always seamless, as the atmosphere of either of these two does not completely overlay the other.

Yuppie Psycho’s best aspect is its story and writing. Taking place entirely within a giant, ten-floor office building, you control Brian Pasternack, a low-class, jobless young man who only just graduated basic education, only to immediately receive a mysterious letter from one of the biggest companies on the planet to work for them in their main headquarters. However, this dream is quickly dashed as Brian discovers he has been given an exceptionally bizarre job- to kill a “Witch” that has been corrupting the building. What follows is Brian’s adventure across the various floors of the building, getting information on the Witch with the help of an AI who warns Brian not to reveal his job to any of his coworkers, as anyone could be the Witch in disguise.

The humor of the game comes from how passive nearly every character is to the events happening in the office. Brian himself is an over-the-top, easily frightened loser who’d you’d moreso expect to play as in a dating sim or something, and is very confused at the nature of the building for much of the game. It’s entertaining to see his reactions bounce off the rest of the cast. The Witch’s corruption is everywhere and affects everyone, shown very obviously by spouts of blood, pulsating monsters, dozens of suit-sporting corpses, and how no one else in the office thinks that’s weird at all.

Yuppie Psycho fluctuates greatly between RPG-like exploration of an interesting world with entertaining moments and characters and a tense survival horror that racks your brain in unconventional ways.

One of the best games i've ever played, the characters and world are so interesting, especially in the hidden documents, the game is also amazing at creating a tense atmosphere, especially in the ending sequences and anything with Mr Devil. The soundtrack is a highlight too, it effortlessly transitions from painful noise similar to Silent Hill in tense scenes to more relaxed themes that are some of the best I've ever heard in the game. The gameplay seems like a basic RPGmaker style game at first but the limited saves and food system add some depth to it to keep it engaging like with the old RE games, even if I personally found the game pretty easy and didn't worry much about the resource management. The art is also beautiful, especially in the cutscenes and interactive screens like the mirror or save stations. The game really just feels like it has a lot of love put into it, especially with all the little details like the vhs tapes made by the cast members, the easter eggs with witch paper and saving, and the hidden scenes on the cameras or little moments of foreshadowing, i'd definetely reccomend playing this atleast once.