How many of you feel overworked and underappreciated at your jobs? Like a cog in the great, uncaring, corporate machine? How many of you wish you could just give your boss a real piece of your mind? Vindefiant, developed by Blakey Games, allows you to fulfill that fantasy in… perhaps a more violent way than you imagined. We played the demo that is out on Steam, so here’s a sneak peak of what you’re in for.

Drunk on Power

Vindefiant follows the journey of a disgruntled employee who is fired from his job, setting him on a path of rage and destruction. Step into Alyx’s shoes on a quest for vengeance, where you fully embrace villainy. The demo doesn’t cover the events that start the game. By the time you’re in it, Alyx has already made a deal with a demon and gained supernatural tentacles. You break into your old workplace, intent on reaching the CEO and… ‘teaching’ him the error of his ways.

It is a bit of a platformer, as you Doc Ock your way through the halls. I’d love to talk to the architectural designer of the building, because, what? Its impossible to imagine how anyone could navigate it without wall and ceiling-sticking tentacles, let alone a regular paper pusher. There’s also what looks like barbed wire in some areas that instantly ends you. Thankfully, your demonic powers just send you back to where you began on the screen.

Vindefiant‘s mechanics are relatively simple. You can surge forward with shift as you move around the map, and grab things with your mouse. There’s a number of interactable objects, from fruits, to standard office supplies, to people. Despite the pixel graphics, it can actually get pretty gory as you beat people with water coolers or throw them on spikes. There are helpless, hapless office workers and armed security guards, not that the guns do much against you. Further levels will probably become more dangerous when Vindefiant is fully released.

Blakey Games says that Vindefiant will eventually ten chapters as the game transports players through different environments. We will see a stunning city at sunset and the dark, winding passages of a sewer for certain. Additionally, players can unlock ‘Nightmare chapters,’ which present more challenging and unforgiving variations that require mastery of the game’s mechanics to conquer. We’ll have to wait for Vindefiant‘s final release in Q4 of this year for that, so make sure to Wishlist the game to keep up with the latest news.

Vindefiant demo is part of Steam’s Next Fest. Grab it now, because it might not last long!