If you like interesting lore, challenging games, creepy cool monster designs, management simulators, or morally gray anime characters that make you wonder if you're being talked down to but with enough plausible deniability to make you ignore it, look no further!

Lobotomy Corporation is an extremely addicting game where you manage the workers at an energy production company. The energy is harvested from monsters called "abnormalities" and you have to make sure you work with them in just the right way or they might eat your workers alive, break loose, or have some other awful effect on your facility. You can restart every work day in case anything goes wrong though, so if something doesn't go according to plan you can have a do over.

The monsters all have unique and really cool designs. Some of the abnormalities are pretty grotesque abominations but there are goofier ones, like some human sized shrimps vibing in their containment cell. They all have a detailed write up about them that you can unlock and read about if you work with them enough. Sometimes it's about how they came to be, sometimes it's a little story about it that happened in the facility, it varies from abnormality to abnormality. There are also monsters you can fight that will spawn in the facility and aren't abnormalities, and those are pretty cool too.

The heads of the different departments in game will give you missions that you don't really have to complete, but if you do rewards you with some of their backstory and some more information about the world. You start to get a better idea of the big picture the more you play, and it makes you want to keep playing to keep learning new information.

This isn't a game for everybody, but if you're okay with a bit of horror and some light gore, and if any of what I said interests you, I'd definitely recommend this.

Reviewed on Jan 16, 2021


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