It's funny that this game is a repetitive, fairly buggy, sloppily executed idea of both a minigame vessel and a management sim, and yet I enjoy every second of it and get horribly addicted to playing it like 4-5 hours a day.

The gameplay loop here is what's doing a hard carry with juggling laundry loads with emptying arcade machines, getting achievements so you boost popularity on said machines, and on top of that little bits and pieces to keep your attention.

Very few of the arcade games are really that fun to play, moreso just a fun take on some older game genres and ideas. One of my favorites is the DLC machine called "Empathy," where all you do is walk in this bizarre, dim, vector landscape and avoid shots as you ponder your life.

There's such a weird quirk to how shallow/buggy the games are, but I feel compelled to play them more because it feels like I have a reason to at all times. The game offers a pretty huge soundtrack and quite a lot of arcade games to play.

If you can grab this on sale and can get past some really rough patches of menuing and some not very fun minigames, there's something here that ticks my brain something fierce.