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A former Homeworld dev has made a free browser game that plays like an ultraviolent Office Space sequelYou can play Rising Up in about fifteen minutes, possibly during company time
You can play Rising Up in about fifteen minutes, possibly during company time
Image credit:Laurent Gehin
Image credit:Laurent Gehin
Rising Upis afree, sub-fifteen minute browser game that’s a bit like Streets of Rage, where you play a balding office worker and beat a giant scanner to death within the first 30 seconds. This, I believe, should be enough to tempt you into dunking it enthusiastically into your next break coffee, but if you need more convincing, let’s do it.
I was going to write that Rising Up had ‘really good pixel art’ but after thinking about it for a while, I realised this wasn’t what I was trying to say. What the game actually made me feel was closer to: ‘This is a really good piece of art delivered through the medium of pixels’. Punching aside, I’d say Rising Up hits more like an experimental short film. The sense of escalating chaos as you progress, alongside the camera trickery and details, culminates in a wonderfully bizarre ending that at once makes me want a full release but also need this exact tempo to be preserved in perpetuity.
Rising Up (trailer) - Climb the Corporate Ladder… with Your Fists!Watch on YouTube
Rising Up (trailer) - Climb the Corporate Ladder… with Your Fists!
It did feel vaguely violating and dystopian in a ‘surrendering of bodily autonomy upon entering a designated space kind of way’, but I mainly found it quite funny. I quit after a few months, but if I’d stayed there for years, I’d probably want to punch a scanner to death too. You can find Rising Up on Itchhere.
