Work Life Balance (2025)

Game Information

About the Game

Work Life Balance is a narrative adventure game set in a near-future dystopia where a corporation controls every aspect of daily life, from housing and food to work assignments and social status.

With no traditional combat or character stats, players progress by exploring the environment, collecting clues, and entering the protagonist’s mind. Through its Maze of Thought and Maze of Debate systems, players organize fragmented thoughts, uncover contradictions, and confront the beliefs that keep the protagonist trapped within the corporate system.

The game combines dark corporate satire with a deeply personal story about work, identity, and the difficult question of what it means to live a fulfilling life.

My Role

Work Life Balance was my first independently developed and self-published game. After leaving my corporate career in 2024, I taught myself game design and programming and brought the project from its initial concept through development, localization, and release.

My responsibilities included:

• Game concept and direction

• Game, narrative, and puzzle design

• Programming and event implementation

• Visual direction and UI implementation

• Localization in Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and English

• Production and release management

• Steam publishing and marketing