Coming out of nowhere, GOOD JOB! By Paladin Studios brings the minutia of work to your home, but makes them funny, challenging and overall entertaining to perform. Players take control of a newish employee who is given a number of tasks that range from watering plants and organizing boxes, to moving projectors and much more! Good Job! is a pretty fun game, especially with two people, but it can overstay its welcome at times with tedious tasks and unpredictable controls.
This game is cute. This game has a lot of charm. It is hard not to love watching your character put on new clothes and be so happy fulfilling a task by running a forklift through a wall just to get a box to another room. This game is also terribly comedic. The tasks are simple, but the means to do them has a lot of range. I couldn’t help but laugh hysterically when sling-shotting a projector through various walls to get it to the correct room. Players playing by themselves or with another will eventually find some good laughs as things get smashed, people get thrown or objectives are completed in silly ways. A player can smash and destroy or complete tasks in any way they want, but to get high grades, players must complete tasks efficiently and destroy as little as possible. This allows players to either casually finish each puzzle/task as fast and fun as possible, or with as much care and delicacy as possible to score well.
The only issues that I found with the game was some of the puzzles were terribly long with no real value and some of the grabbing or connections were spotty. At one point, I had to water over 200 plants in a large set of rooms. This was a lot of fun to get water from various sources and find plants to water, but because there were so many and I had to water every single one there, it felt tedious to comb through every inch of the room to find one or two last plants. There were only a handful of puzzles that felt more like chores than fun tasks, but they slowed the pace and fun down a lot when they appeared. This along with clunky connections when grabbing or dragging things can make the game slightly frustrating, but never so much that it annoys or ruins the game play. It actually usually leads to more funny antics than genuine annoyance.
Good Job! is a great time if you just want a puzzle game to eat up some hours, have some silly fun with friends or destroy an office while still getting praise (in game). They’re are some flaws in tasks and other places, but this game is an overall pretty good game to play if not taken too seriously.
