Vidjama Gmaes Work

The Suits Have Gone Mad! is some free crap on Steam.

I can think of no game better to kick of the Vidjama Gmaes Work website than The Suits Have Gone Mad! A game that is not only an artsy fartsy walking simulator, but free for good measure. Released literally the day that I’m writing up this commentary, but not the day that I’m publishing it, The Suits Have Gone Mad! is a game about being a corporate stooge who one days gains the power of insight and becomes a hunted pariah of the company because of it.

It’s a concept that is both moderately uninspired and repetitive, a game that fronts the idea of your world evidently being one of complete black and white with you working as a “senior innovator” at a tone company whose job is to market innovative new tones that are really just shades of gray.  I don’t want to crap on indie devs, but the concept of free spirits introducing color to a dull monotone world has been done so many times it’s literally a genre of its own now.

But I’m willing to give credit where credit is due; The Suits Have Gone Mad! is a good introduction to what will be an episodic story. You don’t really need an introduction to the world, the themes are pretty surface level stuff. Your world gets twist turned upside down when your presentation of the latest monotone tone gets hacked and the color is switched with blue, freaking out all the suits and making you enemy number one of your company. You have to escape and eventually that’s where the game ends after about an hour.

For what it’s worth the game has several genuinely creepy moments like one where the lights go out on the elevator and all you see are the whites of the eyes of those in with you. There is one singular scene where the game becomes actiony and you can suddenly sprint and dodge as an enemy suit guy throws himself at you like a fish. It’s also possible to slip in a puddle and kill yourself in the first 30 seconds of the game.

There are a few logic puzzles in the game including a few times where you have to “hack” all the computers by selecting the right combination of number strips to bypass locks.

If you’ve got some time, check it out on Steam. It’s free.