Discouraged Workers

Overview

『Discouraged Workers』 is an independent progressive kinetic novel created by YGGDRASIL STUDIO. The episode is the fifth in the Project DW series, a satirical story based on the popular Korean soap operas-styled plot. It compares Ga-yeon’s bleak everyday life to the dark side of youth.

As a hospital coordinator, Ga-yeon fell in love with a doctor at the hospital she was working in and they had an affair even though the doctor was a married man. When the director found out, she was fired. For over a year she tried to find another job, but her mental uneasiness eventually made her give up and she became a recluse.

A year later, in the spring of 2013, her younger sister, Hye-na, and her first love Yunwoo come to her.

A story about the dark side of today's youth and serious life events happening around Ga-yeon.

Discouraged Workers 

Description

• The basic mechanism is based on a Kinetic Novel.
• The episode is adult content. The program contains Violence, Blood, Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, Strong Language, Use of Tobacco, Alcohol Reference. Not recommended for Children, Seniors or Pregnant, Feeble-Minded Person.
• You will be moved on mostly through Ga-yeon’s point of view and the Archives will be also helpful for you to understand the whole story.
• Basically you don’t need to be directly involved – just watch, read, listen, and feel it.
• However sometimes, you may be required to do something to collect some records or scenes.
• Discouraged Workers is played automatically. You can toggle this function.

Features

• A Korean-based densely-plotted story with the gloomy theme.
• The short but intense 120+ minutes, with the real soap opera-like directing.
• The animation-style hand-drawn sprites & CGs, and backgrounds based on retouched real pictures.
• Archives contains 90+ records(Characters and Concept, Diary, Gallery, Music, and Replay).
• 30+ Steam Achievements, full Steam Trading Cards series, Steam Workshop, cross-platform auto-cloud sync with Steam Cloud.
• Full Controller Support, Steam Controller support.
• Blind-friendly support.

Key Records

• SlideDB 2016 AOTY TOP 50
• EMOTIONAL GAMES AWARDS 2016 Nominee
• SlideDB 2015 AOTY TOP 50
• Greenlit on Steam Greenlight
• The second Adult Only title on Steam
• Very first released for Adult and TEEN version on Steam
• Very first native Steam Controller support in Korea, Republic of.
• Funded with Tumblbug
• Participated in the FUCK CAPITALISM JAM(#FuckJam2k15)
• Amazon Top 100 selling Indie Games PC Games #12, Mac Games #4
• IndieGameStand Top Sellers #1 -TEEN version
• itch.io Top games #51, Adventure games #7, Android adventure #1
• SlideDB Popular Games #1(2 times), IndieDB #11, ModDB #45
• App Store iPad Top Paid Educational Games #2, iPhone Top Paid Adventure Games #10, Top Paid Educational Games #1 in Singapore -TEEN version
• Google Play Top Paid Adventure #20 in India, Top New Paid Adventure #7 in Korea, Republic of., Top New Paid Adventure #20 in 8 countries -TEEN version