Minimum Effort
What it is
A satirical workplace strategy game for iPhone. You play an employee whose objective is not to succeed at work but to extract the maximum salary for the minimum amount of actual labour — and to survive the people who would notice.
Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00 and every act trades three things against each other: the time it saves, the output it produces, and how conspicuous it makes you.
How a day works
- Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall. It never files the report.
- The boss patrols. When he walks past mid-act you have a couple of seconds to look busy, and less time the hotter you already are.
- Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss from a direction you were not watching.
- Promotions are a trap. Every rung pays more and expects more. The skill is being good enough not to be fired.
The four tracks
Corporate — easy
Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads.
Startup — chaotic
Twelve people, no structure, and everybody watching everybody.
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.
Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack, a single purchase — not a subscription.
What it does not do
- No account, no sign-in, no server. Your careers are saved on your device.
- No analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs.
- No data leaves the phone. There is nothing to leave.