Passage: A Job Interview Simulator! (v1.02)

A collapsing job search becomes a supernatural survival story in this horror-leaning indie narrative about a recent graduate with nowhere left to turn. Rejection letters, financial desperation, and the pressure to appear employable give the premise an uncomfortably recognizable foundation before it veers into stranger territory. Your pet cat suddenly reveals itself as an ancient Egyptian deity, offering guidance and power in exchange for your performance under the merciless gaze of corporate recruiters. The mood shifts between dark workplace satire, anxious nightmare fuel, and absurd feline-god comedy, making every interview feel far more dangerous than a routine conversation about strengths and weaknesses.

Players guide the protagonist through a branching, choice-driven story built around interviews, personal decisions, and conversations with potential employers. Each encounter asks you to read people, select responses, manage the consequences of your choices, and decide how much faith to place in your newly divine companion. The cat-god’s abilities can alter the flow of an interview, including stopping time, but its help does not remove the pressure of making a convincing impression. Decisions steer the plot toward five different endings, while the game’s advertised eight-plus-hour narrative gives its mystery room to develop beyond a simple sequence of job-application gags.

What stands out is how effectively Passage turns the familiar misery of graduate employment into its central horror device. Corporate offices, interview etiquette, and professional self-promotion become parts of a larger conspiracy tied to recurring nightmares and unsettling prospective employers. Original character art and a dedicated soundtrack help sell both the mundane stress and the escalating supernatural unease, while the multiple routes encourage another run to uncover missed outcomes. Fans of choice-based visual novels with psychological horror, especially players who enjoy the uneasy workplace themes of games like The Stanley Parable or Doki Doki Literature Club, should find plenty to chew on; newcomers to narrative games can also enjoy it if they are ready for text-heavy play and consequential decisions.