Brush up your resume, as Playtonic friends and Canteen have announced that the absolutely normal job simulator,CorpoNation: The Sorting Process, will be released on Aug 07, 2025. Alongside this announcement isa new trailer.
CorpoNationis a job simulator not too far off from the seminalPapers, Please. However, instead of sorting paperwork at the border in a bleak dystopia,CorpoNationhas you sorting genetic samples in ableakCorporatedystopia. It’s probably the same corporate dystopia that we’ll be living in about three years from now. Might as wellstart practicing!
CorpoNationdifferentiates itself fromPapers, Pleaseby also having you experience life outside of the workplace, which I assume is just a dorm for employees. There’s a virtual desktop with games you can play and instant messages you can read. It almost feels like actual human contact. However, there are still shades of its inspiration through narrative concepts like an underground resistance trying to recruit you to undermine your employer.
I’m kind of looking forward toCorpoNation, but at times it feels too real. Hopefully, it’s more than a depressingly exaggerated extrapolation of “drive this car to work, work to pay for the car.” I’m hoping that there’s some fun in undermining your employer instead of the constant, clawing stress and anxiety that came withPapers, Please. I’m not sure my mind can take that sort of trauma again.
CorpoNationis coming out on PC on May 25, 2025. There’s ademo available for it nowif you’re interested in taking it for a test drive.
