The navigational nightmare of an IKEA retailer is the stuff of legend uninspiring stand-up comics. But now it’s in a videogame too. Assembly Required is a parody sim about constructing a “furniture maze” designed to bamboozle your prospects and weaken their their pockets fingers. You need to exhaust the store’s guests with a gauntlet of armchairs, ottomans, eating tables and heart-shaped beds, whereas having fun with “a mix of Tycoon and Tower Defense gameplay”. Wanna see the trailer? Just go that means, previous the canine baths, left on the espresso hammocks, by way of the forest of lamps, flip proper at curtain canyon, and left once more on the meatball graveyard. Can’t miss it.
Those horrible dancing fellas look possessed by devils however not less than they’re having fun with themselves. They’re the boyos who handle components of your store, say builders MUTT Studio, accountable for issues like high quality assurance, buyer help, inventory and gross sales. There are again rooms the place issues get packaged and constructed, stuffed with these hellions. You’ll must maintain your Minion-like yellow lads glad whereas they work, or your retailer will “descend into chaos”. In different phrases, they’ll go on strike.
Meanwhile, you’ll be plopping down furnishings shows and dictating the move of shoppers with a squiggly line weaving by way of your store, forcing them into a protracted, winding route previous all essentially the most shows you need them to see. Like that a part of the airport the place you undergo the ballroom fabricated from perfumes. You’ll be capable to improve the dimensions of your retailer to make “increasingly incomprehensible mazes” and “deal with the unique challenges of multiple customer types who seek to destroy and escape your maze.” Accursed free-thinkers, daring to defy the road.
It’s going to be $15, says MUTT, and can keep away from early entry by going straight to launch a while in summer time this 12 months.
