Minimum Effort vs TV Studio Sim

You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job. Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.

You just founded a TV network. One office, one idea, and a lot to prove. TV Studio Sim puts you in charge of every decision behind the shows people can’t stop talking about. Develop the series, hire the talent, pick the premiere date and watch the ratings roll in week by week. Will your drama become a phenomenon, or get cancelled after one season? MAKE THE SHOWS • Create original series across drama, comedy, sci-fi, procedurals, reality and limited series, each with its own theme, from crime and romance to horror, westerns and space. • Bid against rival networks for hot pitches on the Rights Market. • Hire showrunners, directors and actors, every one with their own stats, strengths and potential. • Run the writers’ room. Bring in a script doctor, buy extra weeks or pay for rewrites on set to sharpen the script. • Handle the drama behind the scenes: on-set incidents, rival poaching attempts and tough calls that change your season. LAUNCH THEM RIGHT • Pick the perfect premiere week and design a poster for every season. • Buy ad campaigns to build hype before episode one. • Follow every episode’s viewers, ratings and revenue as the season airs. • Read the headlines and the fan reactions on The Wire. Is your show trending? BUILD A LEGACY • Renew your hits, cancel your flops, or give a fan favourite its final season. • Watch your talent grow with every season they work for you. • Sign streaming deals, or launch your very own streaming service. • Compete at the Golden Remotes, TV’s biggest night, and fill your trophy shelf. • Raise your network’s prestige and outshine your rivals year after year. MAKE IT YOURS • Name your network and design its logo. • Choose your difficulty, from a relaxed start to a cutthroat climb. • Unlock achievements as your empire grows. • Light and dark mode. From your first pilot to the top of the ratings: how big can your network get?