Ludography
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2008 · Platformer · Puzzle

Karoshi

The original freeware puzzle-platformer in which the goal is to find out how to kill yourself.

Released
2 March 2008
Platforms
WindowsAndroid
Genres
PlatformerPuzzle
Developers
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Publishers
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Perspective
Side view
Themes
Comedy
Engine
Adobe Flash

About

Karoshi is a series of puzzle-platform games created by Jesse Venbrux and developed by YoYo Games Ltd, in which the goal is to make the player character, a Japanese salaryman named "Mr. Karoshi", commit suicide. The word "karōshi" literally means "death by overwork" in Japanese.

The series titles span a number of platforms. 0, and Karoshi Factory, were released as standalone executables for Windows. Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman and Super Karoshi run on the Adobe Flash platform, the latter of which was developed by Armor Games. The latest installment, Mr.

Keywords

  • freeware

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Mr. Karoshi has a rating of 86% on Metacritic, based on 11 reviews. It won the Android game of the year at Pocket Gamer for 2012.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows2 March 2008Worldwide

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