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Mike's Software

Mike's Business is collapsing! Play through fast-paced, rapid-fire microgames, and kit your run out with Add-Ons to last as long as you can.

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About the Game

Mike's Business, inc. is collapsing and he needs your help to save it!

Play through fast-paced, rapid-fire microgames, and kit your run out with Add-Ons to last as long as you can!

Rapid-fire Corporate Mayhem

Mike's Software is a microgame roguelite made up of short, simple tasks that only give you a few seconds to react.

Unjam printers, close virus popups, kill malware processes, delete suspicious files, type passwords, catch coins, write emails, reboot servers, sign documents, cook the books, and generally keep the business moving by any means necessary.

Every task is easy to understand on its own. The pressure comes from speed, switching inputs, reading bad interfaces quickly, and trying not to make too many mistakes in one run.

Earn revenue. Avoid collapse.

Each successful task earns money for the business. Mistakes cost money and push the company closer to collapse.

Survive long enough, and the pace starts to build. The longer the run goes, the faster Mike’s broken little business machine expects you to work.

Install Add-Ons

Between rounds, you can spend revenue on Add-Ons that modify your run.

Some help you survive mistakes. Some improve revenue. Some change how certain tasks behave. All of them are dressed up like completely normal business software, internal processes, support packages, temporary staffing arrangements, and other things a company might definitely try to justify in writing.

Features

  • Fast-paced microgames with simple controls

  • Revenue-based roguelite runs

  • Add-Ons that modify each run

  • Fake desktop and business software presentation

  • Office, computer, and corporate satire

  • Mouse, keyboard, typing, dragging, memory, timing, and reaction-based tasks

  • Hand-drawn, low-budget software aesthetic

  • Increasing speed and pressure the longer you survive