clock out.

clock out. compresses pre-interview nerves into a tiny surreal interactive fiction. You play a data analyst trying to steady himself before meeting a mysterious company, with a creator-estimated four-minute route and six endings waiting behind repeated passes.

What is clock out.?

The setup takes one of adulthood’s least cinematic rituals and lets it wobble out of shape: a nervous applicant, an unfamiliar company, and a few minutes before professional composure is supposed to arrive on cue. clock out. was made in RPG Maker as a game-design class final and gallery piece, and the creator is candid about its roughness. That context fits the compact form. Arrow keys move, Z, Space, or Enter handles interaction, and Shift lets the analyst hurry through a scenario short enough to replay. Six endings give the anxious little loop more branching room than its four-minute estimate first suggests.

What you can do there

• Guide a nervous data analyst before a mysterious job interview
• Replay a four-minute scenario to seek six endings

Why we picked it

Its scale and subject are sharply matched. Job-interview dread already makes ordinary rooms and pauses feel strange, and this project turns that nervous static into a small branching artifact instead of stretching it into a conventional adventure. The six-ending structure also gives curious visitors a reason to poke again after the first clock-out.

How to get the most from it

Let the first run happen without chasing a particular result, then replay and change interactions to look for the other endings. Use the arrow keys to move, Z, Space, or Enter to interact, and Shift to run. If assets load slowly, the creator recommends closing other browser tabs before trying again.

Good to know

The creator calls this a rough class project and does not plan updates beyond possible game-breaking fixes. Three credited Kevin MacLeod tracks indicate a scored experience, but audio controls were not verified. The six routes, touch support, smartphone layout, save behavior, accessibility, privacy, and performance remain untested.

Who made it, and when?

devkity is the credited creator or organization.