With a unique presentation unlike anything I've seen before in gaming, Salary Man Escape creates its own singular vision of workplace hell. But with frustrating controls and a bordering-on-broken physics model, the stellar puzzle design is lost in a mire of irritation and exasperation. If I wanted to feel stressed, I would just go to work.
Salary Man Escape2018
Salary Man Escape
2018 Oasis Games68Worthwhile
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- $10.99
- $15.99
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- Launch
- June 25, 2018
- Developer
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- Publisher
- Oasis Games
- Themes
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Overview
Use skill, strategy and the power of PlayStation VR to help a desperate salary man get away from his torturous life, in this satirical physics-based puzzler.
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Press63
Players94
WorthwhileExcellent- Metacritic63from 14 reviews
- OpenCritic62from 6 reviews
Salary Man Escape is a fun puzzle game with a very catchy soundtrack. The game does have its flaws with its controls and the physics, but once you’ve got used to them and you know how the game works, there are many hours of entertainment to have here as you aim to save all 60 employees. Every time you successfully complete the later levels you get an...
Salary Man Escape is a great puzzle game ruined by its useless VR integration.
Salary Man Escape is an interesting idea for a puzzle game, but its execution ends up being more along the lines of the very drudgery that it tries to parody, rather than the escape that video games promise. It relies a little bit too heavily in its physics, which creates object collision issues in the more complex later levels. Fortunately, the driving...
Salary Man Escape is not a bad puzzle game, which, with a good level of immersion, almost doesn't the charms of VR technology in the gameplay. This is one of those games that could work without VR. Unlike the recent Moss, which would lose most of the emotions and gameplay elements without VR.