Jérôme

Jérôme — a short story game about hiding a layoff from your family.

After fourteen years at a logistics company, Jérôme gets a letter: his role has been transferred to an automated workflow. He doesn't tell his family.

Every morning he takes his laptop and the lunch Léa packs him "for work", rides tram 3 across the city and sits in a café where nobody knows him. Léa and the kids think he's at work. The rent is due in seven days.

• Three actions a day: apply for jobs, take a gig, sell something, spend time with the family, or just scroll the feed.

• Every lie goes on a napkin. Everyone he lies to talks to Léa, so his stories have to match.

• Seven days, dreams between them, several endings. 

About half an hour. Plays in the browser, on phones too. Progress is saved in your browser