Setting:
You're a high school kid starting a job in a department store in a tall building in a big city.

What you do:
On your first day you're shown around, then are given tasks and have to do monotonous ordinary tasks. During this day you'll want to learn as much as you can about the layout of the building while keeping your boss happy cause if you're fired, the game is over.

Day 2, you go in to work and a group of people come in and take the building over. You're tied up and put under the criminals' surveillance. You struggle and manage to break free. Now you have to sneak out of the building without any of the criminals knowing or you'll be tied up again or shot. You could make your way down using the elevator (high risk), stairs (medium), or alternative means such as scaling the outside wall with equipment from the sports store, going down the air ducts, using the elevator shaft, etc. Along the way you can also set up traps to try and catch the criminals.

The appeal:
You could go ahead and tell-off the customers and beat them up which many kids working blue-collar jobs always want to do but never can. You could also run amuck of the store or even kill your boss if you want to. These would result in being fired and the game is over but being able to live out the dream of not taking crap from your job with no real-life consequences will attract all of those who work these monotonous everyday jobs.

Tom Clark
luno44@hotmail.com