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A Simple job

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

💼 A simple task: Don’t press the red button. Sounds easy? 😏 Featuring an annoying voice, absurd endings, and too many achievements. Free. Pointless. Glorious. 🤡🔴

What works

  • Free to play
  • Humorous and quirky narration
  • Multiple endings and achievements
  • Good replay value
  • Active developer support and dlc

Things to keep in mind

  • Simple core mechanics
  • Short playtime
  • Some technical issues (performance, bugs)
  • Lack of subtitles
  • Some players find humor or voice acting less appealing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • BABBDI

  • Slender Threads: Prologue

  • Dead Take

  • The Henry Stickmin Collection

  • Amanda the Adventurer

  • This Strange Realm Of Mine

More survival-focused

Games that feels like A Simple job but with a stronger survival pressure

  • TERPENIE

  • Fears to Fathom - Home Alone

  • [Nightmare Files] Clap Clap

  • Garten of Banban 0

  • Glitched Out: Chapter 1

  • Spirits of Xanadu

More expressive

Games that feels like A Simple job but with more self-expression and customization

  • Awkward Dimensions Redux

  • GlitchSPANKR

  • SLUDGE LIFE 2

  • Job Simulator

  • The Windows Are Gone

  • Moral Dilemma: The Interview

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with A Simple job. These titles are not in What to play next.

A Simple job: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026