Stick It to the Stickman is an upcoming roguelike developed by Free Lives (of Broforce fame) and published by Devolver Digital.
You are inducted into a company by your best friend. However, the CEO tells you to "fire" your friend. Then, your journey to climb the corporate ladder begins. Literally.
The demo of the game can be downloaded on Steam
and itch.io (the latter of which also includes a demo of the Neurolink mode).The game is set for release in 2024 for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
The reveal trailer can be seen here.
Not to be confused with Stick It to the Man!, which is a Point-and-Click-Puzzle Platformer-Stealth-Based Game Genre Mashup.
These tropes are fired:
- Battle in the Rain: Rain occurs right before the fight against the CEO.
- Contractual Boss Immunity: While all other bosses are instantly defeated when thrown off the building, the CEO will just come back to the arena by hanging off a helicopter.
- Fartillery: One of the moves has you farting a lingering gas cloud, making enemies that make contact with it vomit.
- Interface Screw: In the worker selection menu, the Task Dodger's icon swaps its position with another icon whenever the cursor is directed towards it.note It stops swapping after five swaps.
- Klingon Promotion: The Company seems to operate entirely on this. As when you're hired, you're required to write down the name of who referred you to the company, and if you're hired your first order of business is "firing" and replacing the one who referred you. Unsurprisingly, this is what happens when you successfully win a run, and defeat the CEO, as The Shareholders arrive, and give your winning character the CEO position.
- Satire: Of office politics, cutthroat business practices, and corporate culture in general; and a scathing one at that, with a business that's so adamant about not wanting it's workers to leave that they have toilets installed in cubicles, an on-site morgue, all while the executives sit around doing nothing in luxurious spa-like lounges. And all built around a promotion system that seems to operate exclusively on Klingon Promotion. Oh, and your job only pays a measly $8 an hour.
