Thank You for Your Application Launches on Steam
The game's focus on the stress and moral weight of corporate hiring, combined with a dystopian near-future setting, offers a pointed commentary on real-world job hunting and workplace pressures.
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Publisher No More Robots and developer IceLemonTea Studio released the interview simulation game Thank You for Your Application on PC via Steam on June 19. Players take the role of an interviewer at a megacorporation in the fictional Sorashima City in 2066, deciding applicants' fates while managing their own precarious finances and housing. The game features branching storylines and includes a new demo alongside the full release.
In Thank You for Your Application, players become an interviewer for the largest company in Sorashima City, a dystopian near-future metropolis where global disasters and economic decline have intensified an 'employment war.' The protagonist, one of the few who landed a job, must balance their own bills and rent against the power to hire or reject applicants. The gameplay cycles through preparation, interview, and rest phases: reading news and manuals, conducting interviews with options including electric shock interrogation, and returning home to manage finances and mental health via email and shopping.
Developer IceLemonTea Studio, an indie studio based in Hong Kong, released this as its first title. The full version arrives about a year after the initial demo from April 2025. A new demo is also available on Steam alongside the launch.
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