2020-08-01_PC_Gamer_(US_Edition

C

ould there be anything worse than
unpaid internships? How about unpaid
internships where you have to clear
basements filled with monsters?
Unfortunately, that’s your employment sitch in the
corporate dungeon crawler Going Under. At least
brawling your way through the bowels of an office
building is good exposure.

boardrooms, lounge areas, and IT suites

forever. Down here the goblins live,

clustered in the remains of the brilliantly

named ‘Joblin’.

Going Under’s dungeons are full of

objects that can be used as weapons.

There are classic swords and spiky clubs,

but the best instruments of destruction

down here are office supplies. Giant

pencils for poking, plastic knives for

stabbing, canned coffee grenades, plant

pots, computer keyboards, laptops, yoga

balls, giant staplers, and more. I reached a

moment of utter joy as I picked up a heavy

computer monitor and lobbed it across

the room, completely wiping out a beefy

goblin. Items can break easily, so you’ll be

dropping and picking up any items that

are readily available. The combat is

scrappy, and experimenting with different

weapons keeps things fresh.

INTERN-BASED

As you make your way through the

dungeons, there are special storage

cupboards that house useful power-ups.

There’s also a company café where you

can buy an extortionately expensive cup

of ‘Fizzle Classic’, or some avocado toast

with flavor text that reads “a delicious

alternative to home ownership”. There’s a

great sense of humor throughout, with an

eye particularly towards skewing

corporations and all the nonsense that

comes with them.

Going Under’s 3D art is a whole world

away from the dingy dungeons of other

roguelikes. There’s a burst of color as you

thump an enemy on the head, and an

explosion of money when they die. The

environments are playful, like using a

whiteboard as a barricade or having postal

drones drop packages of new abilities for

you—it’s delightfully silly. I can’t wait to see

what other failed dating apps and

cryptocurrency corporations lie in wait.

Rachel Watts

AVACADO TOAST—“A

DELICIOUS

ALTERNATIVE TO HOME

OWNERSHIP”

PLAYED

IT

A roguelike through a dungeon

of failed tech startups

GOING UNDER

You play as Jackie, a young woman who’s

started an internship as a marketing

assistant at Fizzle Beverages. Your very

first task is to clear out a bunch of goblins

who have been stealing the company’s

office supplies. It’s not an ideal first day at

work, but it could be worse: You could be

making the teas and coffees.

Fizzle Beverages’ basement isn’t just

any corporate storage space—it also

happens to be the cursed ruins of

countless failed tech start-ups. Its

ex-employees are condemned to wander

procedurally generated underground

6

Gam

PREVIEW

RELEASE
2020

DEVELOPER

Aggro Crab

PUBLISHER

Team17 Digital

LINK

aggrocrab.com/going-under

NEED TO KNOW

He totally crushed it

this quarter.