Sorry We're Open

how do i fix this kind of problem

so, I've noticed that I'm unable to get the last union card that I need to finish the game properly, due to handing the car person the wrong tape, is there anyway to fix that?

Can you, please, give us some sort of a story explanation, or, at least, refer to one?

I tried to find an explanation of what actually happened in ''Sorry, We're Open'' online, but to no result.

I am REALLY curious, and don't want to be left with just mere interpretations of mine.

is there a way to get into the freezer in the grocery branch? i've gotten all 4 endings but I can't find a way into the locked freezer room :(

I’m watching a gameplay and I was wondering, could you have someone sacrifice themselves using I quit then revive them with CPR training?

Absolutely amazing game. You have truly mastered your sense of aesthetic with these games and I always look forward to them!

I love all the analogous statements made by the game, while also giving the player room to interpret things based on their own experience. Personally, I love the nuanced take on how corporate entities and the general public, while not purposefully, have teamed together to remove humanity from employees on any rung of the corporate ladder.

Things I love about this game:

* The gameplay structure is a bit more coherent than ND, while I loved No Delivery's gameplay, the routes to get to an ending felt all over the place, and you could be traversing the ending route without realizing, because there's no clear answer on your current direction. This game did well with allowing a slightly more clear path to the endings while also having "quasi-endings" through side quests.

* Delicate balance between dark-humor and just pure dark tones. While I appreciated the dark humor in your other games, I felt that they weren't as delicately traversed as this game was.

* Piece-by-piece storytelling. The story had a bit of a "trickle-down" (lol) affect where once one portion of the story clicked, everything else became all too familiar and easier to see. I liked that there was more dialogue in this game and a bit more narrative.

* Just a specific example, but I LOVED when you showed the person in the car the outcome of the self-help program. It was perfect.

I ended up still having a few questions even at the end of my playthrough, but I haven't replayed it yet. I am confused on who the victim was at the intro of the game (manager? employee? someone specific?) and the outcome of delivering all of the missing lunches (one thing though, is that I loved the subtle way of being able to grind out lunches end-game if you accidentally ate too many, however ironic it is). I did receive what was in the fridge after delivering all the lunches, but I didn't know if there was a more clear reward.

I would love if your next iteration could show your horror take on working at a restaurant. One suggestion could be a reliable navigation system, like a map (I understand some secrets are meant to be explored without the use of a map, but perhaps a map could unlock after finding all hidden rooms, this could help since there's a good amount of backtracking and I would forget that some areas exist.)

I know no delivery has a steam key, but does this game not?

What on earth do I do with the crate key? Does it get me the second fabric scissors?
Also fantastic game again, just as good as No Delivery, keep up the fantastic work man!

You can pet the dog. 10/10 game

mechanically i think this is a step up, but narrativley feels a bit directionless? i have the 3rd industrial cleaner and nowhere to use it, i searched the store high and low, but nothing. am i supposed to just keep doing shifts? or was i supposed to die to progress?

Hey Oates, question for ya.  I think I basically got the order of everything figured out, but I need another scissors.  I looked in the two places you mentioned elsewhere, and I did all the available shifts.  Are the scissors in Dp shift or somewhere else?  I already used one scissors, and I've looked basically everywhere else.

i actually need some help it seems like I may have soft locked myself if that is possible. It feels as though I've gone everywhere poosible but the last area which seems to be a mall with caution tape that requires fabric scissors to get through. Well I've searched all locations multiple times to try to figure out where to find them but no luck could I get a tip.

I haven't posted a youtube video but I've been streaming the whole process if that would help. https://www.twitch.tv/tyview

Great concept. The aesthetics are very appropriate for the atmosphere it is trying to create.

However, I always run out of money with no reliable and renewable way to earn it. It leaves me with no mid combat options besides making my employees quit, escaping, or anticipating death. I just gave up after my 9th time running out of money.

I hope the current money dependent combat system will be fixed. Either give every character a free attack or create some way to reliably earn money. Something needs to change.

I played the Haunted PS1 Demo-Disc: Spectral Mall version of the demo. No idea if that's any different from the demo here, but here's my review:

Great pixel art and atmosphere. I appreciate the direction toward a hardcore capitalist numbers nightmare RPG. However, the current gameplay design leaves much to be desired.

In combat, you're forced to either use $ or your Manager's HP to attack. If you run out of $ and the enemy's still healthy, you're basically dead. On paper, this sounds like it would lead to tense decisions, and I think I was going through the intended level of pain for most of my playthrough. However, once I got exploded by the final fight of the demo, I figured out I could just repeat the Monday shift, which is really easy, and build up my wallet enough to steamroll through the last shift. Kinda ruined the "work is hell" vibe to be able to do that with no repercussions, and I'm wary of how prevalent grinding previous shifts to get through later ones will be in the full game.

Not to mention, presently, there is a very limited and unexciting pool of events for each shift. Once I memorized what does what, it was a no-brainer to pick the options that might result in my party taking a bit of damage or a status ailment over getting into a battle where I am guaranteed to lose HP and/or $ for little-to-no reward. It bugs me that this is an RPG where the bulk of interesting decisions are in combat, yet the winning strategy is to avoid combat as much as possible.

The battle balance isn't without issues either. I didn't see the use in skills that would make allies block or evade attacks as you can't predict enemy targets. Frankly, max HP totals are so low that ignoring everything aside from directly damaging the enemy feels like the way to go. As such, hiring the character who can only counter seems like a beginner's trap. Nausea damage also seems of minimal use for the same reason.

Lastly, I hate to bring up ludonarrative dissonance, but I do feel a disconnect between the mechanics and what they're supposed to represent thematically. Why am I bribing my staff to make them use skills in battle, even though I'm just as broke and presumably need my salary to live outside of work? Why does the Manager also have to pay to use their own skills, and where does that money go? Why does Goofing Off still get the job done, how do corporate repercussions get applied the moment we goof off, and what does it mean for those repercussions to kill my Manager? Why is my party completely unfazed getting bludgeoned by mannequins in a presumably supernatural manner? I haven't played "No Delivery" yet, but it seems far easier to maintain the suspension of disbelief in that game because I think you only control one human character in a more surreal environment.

Honestly, the most fun I had playing this demo was exploring the supermarket while on break. Being able to roam freely, find items, and do little sidequests throughout the store is far more rewarding than staring at the customer service counter and picking dialogue options. However, the fact that you have to deliberately go to the break room after finishing a shift and use your single industrial cleaner — which some players might be afraid to get rid of — to even know this part of the game exists seems like a failure in signposting. I've seen someone else play this demo for a half hour without discovering the areas outside the break room, so this definitely isn't just a theoretical problem.

I think if I were making this game myself, I would replace $ with "Motivation Points" for each party member as their primary skill resource, with the option for the manager to expend $ to raise Motivation. I'd also find a way to prevent players from gaining too much $ by cheesing earlier shifts and rebalance the game around the player not doing that.

As is, "Sorry, We're Open" is hard to recommend to anyone but the most brain-poisoned number-crunching "I like RPGs that kick me in the teeth" weirdos (me). I'm personally still looking forward to the full release just to see exactly what the heck is up with this spooky supermarket, but I don't predict that my future opinions will be much different barring significant overhauls to the core design of the game.

Full Playthrough with No Commentary here:

wheres the corporate dungeon?