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PC Gamer
PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

I played a visual novel about the terror of having a 'casual' boss and a job that wants you to conform to society's expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability

A man in a yellow t-shirt with a turtle on it against the backdrop of a relaxed office space.

Truer than You is a visual novel about the gig economy. You're hired by a start-up run by a techbro who wears "fun" t-shirts—always a warning sign—to complete vague tasks delivered via phone app. It's sort of like Fiverr only the jobs range from helping someone who might be an artist or might be a terrorist record a threatening video to being someone's plus-one at an event they don't want to attend alone like Jenny Got-No-Friends.

At the end of each gig you're given a score out of five, and it says something about how accurately it captured the Uber driver experience that when I got a four-out-of-five rating I responded with indignation they'd docked me a point, instead of relief that I'd actually scored quite well.

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