In this game of revenge, you play as a fired office worker. It's after hours. A box of your belongings is on your desk, ready to go, but the printouts you made detailing your horrible boss's many misdeeds are missing! Find those printouts before you leave this miserable building for the last time.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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You realize your printouts are missing. Your "belongings" become a flyer, a lighter, a hole punch, and no printouts.
> smell. x stain. x desk. x walls.
> x printouts. x flyer. x lighter. x punch.
> e.
Stairwell
> x clock. x cards.
> take punch. punch cards.(+1)
> drop punch.
> n.(no: need a key for the elevator)
> u.(no: too slippery)
> d.(no: need light)
> light lighter.(+1)
> d.(+1. You fall down the ramp and drop the lighter.)
Darkness / Basement
> take lighter.(+1)
> light lighter.
> x forklift. turn on switch.(headlights!)
> x walls.(bricks to north)
> enter forklift. n.(+1; hole in wall made)
> n.
Elevator Shaft
> x rungs. u.
Darkness / Under the Elevator Car
> light lighter. s.(+1)
Top Floor
> e.(+1)
Carpet Level
> x boss.(+1; a dummy)
> x coat. x buckle.(+1; has keyhole)
> x head.
> x junk.(+1)
> take poster.(+1)
> x poster.
> x carpet. touch it.(soft)
> x velvet. touch it.(rough)
> x windows.
> w. w.
Cleaning Pantry
> x puddle. x products.
> x canister. x tap. x sign.(flammable)
> e. s.
Kitchenette
> x cabinets. open cabinets.(can't)
> x oven.
The "horizontal eight" on the oven display is the infinity symbol. The oven will keep going indefinitely until someone opens it.
> open oven.
> x blob. take it.(+1)
> x blob. x item. take key.(can't)
> n. e.
Carpet Level
> put blob on velvet.(+1)
> take key. x it.("MA5T3R")
> put key in keyhole. turn key.(+1)
> s.(+1)
Secret Chamber
> x chair. x shredder. take printouts.(+1)
> x printouts.
> x monitors. x VCR. open it.(+1)
> x cassette.
> n. w. w.
Cleaning Pantry
> take canister.(+1)
> e. e. s.
Secret Chamber
> open tap.(+1)
> n. w. s. n. w.
Cleaning Pantry
The canister is now empty.
> drop canister.
> e.
Top Floor
> taste liguid.(snrk)
> light liquid.(+1)
> d. s.
*** The End ***
Extras
Characters
This is a solo adventure, but other characters are mentioned:
Your former boss is just the absolute worst. You have nothing good to say about him.
Your former coworkers are idiots and bullies.
The cleaning staff turned into zombies because of the toxic chemicals in the cleaning products.
Tina Weymouth is the subject of your poster.
In the epilogue, the police search your apartment if you leave with the hole punch that doesn't belong to you. If you damaged the building with the forklift or fire and didn't take the videotape, the police get more involved.
Credits
Fired A story about bad company, written in March, April, and August 2025 by Olaf Nowacki.
Any resemblance to living persons or real events is purely coincidental.
Thanks A huge thank you to Annette Köhn, who created the cover, and to Andrew Schultz, Leon Lin, Mike Russo and Tabitha, who provided me with such great support with their testing and feedback! Also a huge thank you to Anna, Hannes, Patrick and Saskia for testing and providing feedback on the German version, on which this game is based.
Please start by typing "script" and send me your comments and transcript to email redacted!
Endings
Deadly End
if you stay in the burning building.
The End
if you leave the building.
The details of the leave-the-building ending vary based on what you accomplished or failed to accomplish:
Items are listed in the order acquired in this walkthrough.
a cardboard box containing your belongings. It's on the desk in your former office.
Take the box, examine it, then examine your belongings. You learn you have no printouts, and the belongings are revealed to be a hole punch, a lighter, and a flyer.
a hole punch. It's in the box after you examine your belongings.
In the stairwell, punch the punch cards so they all have as many holes as your card.
Drop the hole punch. The punch doesn't belong to you and if you take it home, you're accused of theft and police search your home.
a lighter. It's in the box after you examine your belongings.
In the stairwell, light the lighter for light, then go down (the ramp) to the basement. Unfortunately, the ramp is slippery, and you fall most of the way and drop the lighter.
In the dark basement, TAKE LIGHTER to regain it. Light it again to see the basement, its forklift, and the forklift's switch. Turn on the switch to turn on the forklift's headlights.
At the top of the dark elevator shaft, light the lighter to see the elevator door to the south.
After pouring flammable blue liquid in all the upstairs rooms (see canister), light the liquid (with the lighter), then leave the building as soon as possible.
a flyer. It's in the box after you examine your belongings.
Your character doesn't need this flyer. It's just another example of how bad your boss is.
In July 2025, during a farm worker shortage in the USA, a fake flyer went around asking nurses to volunteer to pick blueberries in their spare time as a clinical ladder opportunity. Outrage ensued. [I wanted to put a link here about the event but I was unable to find a definitive webpage. It was mostly in TikTok and Instagram posts.]
no printouts. It's in your inventory after you examine your belongings.
Examine this non-item to remind yourself what you're looking for.
When you get the actual printouts, this absence disappears.
your poster. Find it by examining the junk in the carpet level.
Take the poster and examine it. It's yours. It was stolen off your office wall some time ago.
a tacky blob. It's in the microwave oven in the kitchenette; examine the cabinets or listen to find the oven.
In the carpet level, put the blob on the velvet to rub all the blob off the key that's inside it.
a key. It's inside the tacky blob; see blob on removing the key from it.
In the carpet level, examine the boss doll's belt to discover a keyhole. Put the key into the keyhole then turn the key to open a secret passage south. You won't get the key back.
your stack of printouts. They're in a shredder in the secret chamber; examine the chair to find the shredder, then examine the shredder to see the printouts.
Take the printouts and keep them. They detail your boss's misdeeds.
a videotape. Acquire it by opening the VCR in the secret chamber; examine the monitors to find the VCR.
Keep the tape. You don't want your boss to have evidence that you did anything on the top level.
a canister of highly flammable liquid. Examine the cleaning products in the cleaning pantry to find it.
Examine the canister; it has a warning sign and a tap.
Read the warning sign; the canister's liquid is highly flammable.
After acquiring the poster, printouts, and videotape, open the tap and walk around so all the upper floor locations have blue liquid in them.
Drop the canister. In the central top floor room, light the liquid (with the lighter), then quickly go down the ramp and out the exit.
Score
This is the response to SCORE:
You have so far scored N out of a possible 20, in T turns.
Points are awarded as follows:
1 point for punching holes in the punch cards.
1 point for lighting the lighter the first time.
1 point for entering the dark basement.
1 point for regaining the lighter.
1 point for busting through a brick wall.
1 point for reaching the top floor.
1 point for entering the carpet level.
1 point for seeing the dummy for what it is.
1 point for finding the keyhole.
1 point for finding your poster.
1 point for taking your poster.
1 point for taking the tacky blob.
1 point for freeing the key from the tacky blob.
1 point for opening the doll.
1 point for entering the secret chamber.
1 point for taking the printouts.
1 point for taking a videotape.
1 point for taking the canister.
1 point for opening the tap.
1 point for lighting the liquid.
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