You are the new hire at the bottom of a 40-floor corporate tower. Walk each floor, do the office chores as short mini-games, earn paperclips and KPI stars, impress HR and ride the elevator up, floor by floor, until the corner office on floor 40 is yours. This guide covers everything, from the lobby turnstiles to all 33 mini-games.
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The tower has 40 floors in eight departments of five floors each. Every floor you reach gives you a new job title, from Unpaid Intern in the lobby to Chief Executive Officer at the top. Your career is saved in your browser as you play, and the game works offline once loaded.
| Floors | Department | Job titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1-5 | Lobby & Mailroom | Unpaid Intern → Facilities Coordinator |
| 6-10 | Customer Support | Support Agent I → Support Team Lead |
| 11-15 | Sales | Sales Development Rep → Regional Sales Director |
| 16-20 | Marketing | Marketing Coordinator → Head of Synergy Marketing |
| 21-25 | IT & Engineering | Helpdesk Technician → Principal Architect |
| 26-30 | Finance | Junior Accountant → Director of Finance |
| 31-35 | Legal & HR | HR Generalist → VP People & Culture |
| 36-40 | Executive Suite | Vice President → Chief Executive Officer |
The mini-games take on the look and content of the department: the same game plays differently in Sales than in IT.
Everything works with the keyboard, a mouse or touch.
| Walk | ← ↑ → ↓ or W A S D, or click / tap the floor |
| Interact | Space or Enter next to a desk, printer, colleague or door, or click it |
| Menu / back / pause | Esc |
| Shop | O |
| Perks | P |
| Training | T |
| Badge wall | B |
| Music on / off | M |
| Quick help | H |
| Give up a floor quest | G |
Each mini-game shows its own controls at the start and along the bottom of the screen.
A new career starts outside the tower. Pick your company name and colour, your name and your look, then walk in. You arrive in the Grand Lobby with 50 paperclips, 5 Stock Options and an empty coffee pot.
The receptionist waves you over. The front desk task is always the Jargon Decoder ("Decode the Memo") and it is free while you check in. Any result counts: finishing it fills your coffee pot, starts the refill and pays the usual rewards. It also unlocks the Signed In badge.
The lobby turnstiles stay closed until you have checked in. The first time through, they take one cup of coffee from your new card. After that they are always free. Beyond them are the rest of the lobby floor and the elevator.
Every floor has 8 workstations (rising to 14 on the top floors). A yellow ! marks a station that is ready. Walk up to it and press Space to open its task card, which shows the mini-game, its coffee cost, the rewards, your best result so far and how long the station rests after you play.
Each mini-game lasts up to about 90 seconds and ends with a score. The score turns into 0-3 KPI stars, and the stars decide the reward:
| Score | KPI stars | Paperclips & XP |
|---|---|---|
| under 35% | 0 | 30% of the base reward |
| 35-59% | ★ | 100% |
| 60-84% | ★★ | 150% |
| 85% and more | ★★★ | 220%, plus a 5% chance of a bonus Stock Option |
Rewards grow with the floor: a 1-star task pays 25 paperclips on floor 1, about 100 on floor 10 and over 2,000 on floor 30. Stars add up every time you play, so replaying a station is always worth it; your personal best per station is kept separately. You can pause any mini-game with Esc. Giving up scores 0.
After you play, the station rests. Simple games come back slowly and complex ones quickly, so every game type is worth playing. The base cooldown is one minute on floor 1 and grows 8% per floor.
| Game type | Coffee | Cooldown | Floor 1 | Floor 10 | Floor 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quick | 1 | 4× base | 4:00 | 8:00 | 37:16 |
| Medium | 2 | 1.5× base | 1:30 | 3:00 | 13:59 |
| Complex | 3 | 0.75× base | 0:45 | 1:30 | 6:59 |
A Stock Option skips a station's cooldown instantly (from the task card).
Coffee is your energy. Your pot holds 6 cups on the first floors and one more every five floors (14 on floor 40). It refills one cup every 2 minutes, even while the game is closed.
Ran dry? You can switch on browser Reminders under Menu > Settings: the game then tells you when your coffee is full again (only while the tab is open in the background, at most 3 a day and never at night).
To leave a floor you need four things. The elevator panel shows your progress on each one.
The review costs 2 coffee: seven questions where you tell HR what they want to hear. Get 60% right to pass. If you fail, HR makes you wait (twice a station's base cooldown) before you can try again. Once you pass, take the elevator up: you pay the keycard fee and get a new floor, a new title, a full coffee pot and a Stock Option. Going down to floors you have already reached is always free.
The bar at the top of the screen shows your paperclips, KPI stars against this floor's quota, your level, Stock Options, how many different mini-games you have played and your coffee with the time to the next cup. Click any of them for details.
| Perk | Effect | Levels | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigger Mug | +2 max coffee | 5 | 150 paperclips, rising |
| Espresso Machine | -10% coffee refill time | 5 | 250 paperclips, rising |
| Ergonomic Chair | +8% XP from tasks | 5 | 300 paperclips, rising |
| Second Monitor | +8% paperclips from tasks | 5 | 300 paperclips, rising |
| Golden Stapler | +10% paperclips, forever | 1 | 40 Stock Options |
| Corner Office Plant | -15% task cooldowns | 1 | 60 Stock Options |
The Training Center (T) turns paperclips into XP at 4 paperclips per XP, handy when you have the stars and the fee but not the level. The Shop (O) sells Stock Option packs. It is a demo: the checkout is simulated and no real money is ever charged.
Two stations send you out onto the floor before the desk part starts. A timer runs at the top of the screen; G gives up.
Once a day (after your check-in), a colleague on your floor has a blue speech bubble: they need a quick favour before stand-up. The favour is one of the quick mini-games and it is completely free: no coffee, no cooldown and it does not count towards your KPI stars. In return you get double paperclips, XP, a cup of coffee and a 20% chance of a Stock Option. Do it seven days in a row and the seventh day pays a Stock Option for sure.
Office life is unpredictable. After you have spent some time on a floor, a random event can break out (roughly every 6-10 minutes). Winning pays a bonus; losing costs nothing.
Every floor you reach has a desk with your nameplate, marked MY DESK until you decorate it. Your decorations move with you from floor to floor: one on the left, one on the right and one on top of the monitor. Each floor's shop sells its own selection of seven items (always some stationery) plus that floor's "Best Employee" trophy, which you can only buy after meeting the floor's KPI star quota. Swap what is on show any time in the Collection tab.
35 badges hang on the badge wall (B or the medal button). Some come naturally, others take a whole career:
Reach the top floor and you are the Chief Executive Officer. You can now decide your colleagues' fate: talk to anyone on floor 40 and choose Fire, Keep or Later. Fire ten people for the Restructuring badge, or the whole board for Clean Sweep.
>_ prompt. It opens a terminal;
type help and see what a curious employee can do.
33 mini-games are shared out across the tower's stations, so every floor has a different mix. They come in three types; the type sets the coffee cost and the cooldown. Every game has a time limit of about 90 seconds or less, and works with the keyboard, the mouse and touch. The screenshots show the Customer Support versions; other departments use their own words and props.
Reflex games and one-choice-per-round games. Cheap to play, but the station then rests the longest (4x the base cooldown).
Guard the badge gate. Stop anyone without a badge beep or a VISITOR sticker before they get through; stopping legitimate staff costs you.
Controls: Stop people without a badge (green BEEP) or VISITOR sticker before they pass the gate. SPACE stops the marked person (Left/Right to change), or click a person.
You are playing solitaire at work. Alt-tab right before the boss with the red tie walks past your desk; false alarms cost you.
Controls: Press SPACE (or click) to alt-tab right before the BOSS (red tie) passes your desk. False alarms cost you.
Corporate trivia with a ticking clock: pick the best answer to each question.
Controls: Pick the best answer before time runs out. Keys 1-4 or arrows + Space, or click.
Thirty seconds in the elevator with the CEO. Stop each slot reel on the word the CEO will love; the rumour at the top tells you what they like.
Controls: Stop each reel (Space/Enter, click STOP or the reel) on the word the CEO will love. Follow the rumour icon!
Receipts versus budget. Add up the receipts and pick how much budget is left from four amounts.
Controls: Add up the receipts and pick the right amount. Keys 1-4 or arrows + Space, or click.
Mail, tickets and requests drop into your inbox one after another. Sort each one into the right of three bins before it slips past (the bins follow the department, e.g. Solve / Escalate / Close in Customer Support).
Controls: Sort each item into the right bin. Keys: ← ↓ → (or 1 2 3), or click a bin.
The boss says a buzzword. Pick what it REALLY means.
Controls: The boss says a buzzword. Pick what it REALLY means. Keys 1-4 or arrows + Space, or click.
Sit through a meeting with a buzzword bingo card. Mark a word the moment someone says it and complete as many lines as you can.
Controls: When someone says a word on your card, press Space or click it. Complete the lines!
Fix the jammed printer: mash to fill the power bar, then strike when the needle is in the green zone (yellow counts half).
Controls: First MASH Space (or click) to fill the bar, then press it when the needle is in the green zone. Yellow = half.
Busy colleagues, one meeting. Find the time slot where every attendee is free and book it, round after round.
Controls: Find the slot where everyone is free. ← → to choose, Space to book, or click the column.
Bugs (or tickets) pop up on a 3x3 grid. Hit them before they escape, but spare the decoys like thank-you notes.
Controls: Hit targets as they pop up: numpad keys 7-9/4-6/1-3, arrows + SPACE, or click. Spare the decoys!
Memory, typing and juggling games. Two cups, 1.5x the base cooldown.
Carry your coffee from the kitchen to your desk across the busy office floor without bumping into anyone. Hold an arrow key to keep hopping.
Controls: Carry your coffee from the kitchen to your desk. Arrows hop (hold to keep going) or click beside you. Dodge traffic!
Memorise every colleague's coffee order (size, drink, milk), then rebuild each order from memory.
Controls: Memorise every order, then rebuild each one. Keys 1-4, arrows + Space, or click.
Keep the desk plant alive for a quarter: water and light in the green bands, blinds open or closed, pests sprayed.
Controls: Keep water and light in the green bands and squash pests. 1/W water, 2/B blinds, 3/SPACE spray, or click.
Expense claims under the microscope. Approve the legitimate receipts and reject the fraud: check dates, amounts, reasons and duplicates.
Controls: Check each receipt: APPROVE (A / Right / click) the legit ones, REJECT (R / Left / click) the fraud. Watch for duplicates!
Stay awake in a long meeting: sip coffee to keep your eyelids up (not too often, or the jitters get you) and nod only when a buzzword is said.
Controls: Stay awake: SPACE or click the mug to sip (not too often!). Nod with N / Up / NOD button ONLY at buzzwords.
Name badges lie face down. Flip two at a time and match the pairs in as few turns as possible.
Controls: Flip two badges at a time and match the pairs. Arrows + Space, or click.
Present slides you have never seen. For each chart, pick the narration that actually matches it.
Controls: Present slides you have never seen: pick the narration that matches the chart. Keys 1-4, arrows + Space, or click.
A live share price. Buy when it is low, sell when it is high and reach the profit target before the closing bell.
Controls: BUY (↑ / 1 / click) when low, SELL (↓ / 2 / click) when high. Reach the profit target before the bell.
A chat window full of customers. Type each canned reply exactly as shown: speed counts, typos cost accuracy.
Controls: Type each phrase exactly. No keyboard? Click the tile with the next letter.
Someone hit Reply All. Delete the "RE:" replies before the inbox overflows, and never delete starred mail.
Controls: Someone hit Reply All. Delete the RE: replies (click, or Up/Down + SPACE or X) before the inbox overflows. Never delete starred mail!
The server rack blinks a sequence of lights. Repeat it from memory; every round adds one more light.
Controls: Watch the lights, then repeat them with keys 1-6 or by clicking. Each round adds one more.
A process has been shuffled. Pick its steps in the correct order to rebuild the slide deck.
Controls: Pick the steps in the correct order. Number keys, arrows + Space, or click.
An email with gaps in it. Pick the phrase that fits each blank so the message makes (corporate) sense.
Controls: Fill each blank with the right phrase. Keys 1-4 or arrows + Space, or click.
Puzzles and multi-step tasks, including the floor quests. Three cups, but the station is ready again soonest (0.75x).
A tangle of patch cables. Re-patch each port to the socket of its colour without ever touching PROD.
Controls: Re-patch every cable to the socket with its colour. Click a port, then a socket (or arrows + SPACE). Never touch PROD!
Tower defence on your calendar: place excuses (Decline, Out of Office, Double-booked, Headphones) to stop meeting invites from reaching your Focus Time.
Controls: Defend your Focus Time from meeting invites. Pick a defence (1-4 or click the bar), then place it on the calendar (click, or arrows + SPACE).
A quarterly report where some Totals are wrong. Flag every row whose Total is not the sum of its columns, then submit. Flagging correct rows costs points.
Controls: Flag every wrong Total (click it, or Up/Down + Space). Enter or Submit when done.
Fridge Tetris: fit the lunches into the office fridge and fill whole shelves to clear them.
Controls: Fit the lunches into the fridge and fill whole shelves to clear them. Arrows move, UP rotates, SPACE drops; or aim with the mouse, click to drop, wheel to rotate.
Turn the knobs, sliders and switches until the KPI chart climbs to the target line. Each control moves the chart in its own way.
Controls: Tune the knobs, sliders and switches until the chart climbs to the target. ←/→ pick, ↑/↓ adjust (or click / drag / wheel).
A surprise reorg and a leaked HR memo. Drag every badge into the org chart so that all the clues hold, then submit the reorg.
Controls: Surprise reorg! Drag each badge into the chart so every clue holds (or click a badge, then a box). Keys: arrows + SPACE to pick/drop. SUBMIT REORG when done.
IT forces a password change. Type a password that turns every rule green, submit, and a new rule appears. Three failed attempts lock you out.
Controls: IT forces a password change. When every rule is green, SUBMIT (Enter) - then a new rule appears. Type, or click the key tiles. 3 failed attempts lock you out!
A floor quest. Find the named colleague somewhere on the floor and chat with them, then come back to the station and fill in their 360 review from what they told you.
Controls: Track down the colleague on this floor and chat with them, then come back here and fill in their review from what they said.
A floor quest. You are locked out and your password is your pet's name. Search the floor's whiteboards for the photo of your pet, then log back in.
Controls: You are locked out! Your password is your pet's name and a photo of your pet is on a whiteboard somewhere on this floor. Find it, then log back in.
Not a station game: you play it at the HR desk once you are promotion-ready (see Getting promoted).
The HR performance review. Tell HR what they want to hear; you need 60% of the answers right to pass.
Controls: Tell HR what they want to hear. Score 60% to pass. Keys 1-4, arrows + Space, or click.