This review contains spoilers
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.
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.