Accounting (video game)

Accounting
Developer(s) Crows Crows Crows
Squanchtendo
Publisher(s) Crows Crows Crows
Director(s) Justin Roiland
William Pugh
Producer(s) Tanya Watson
Kevin Patterson
Artist(s) Dominik Johann
Writer(s) Justin Roiland
William Pugh
Composer(s) Tom Schley
Engine Unity
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • WW: October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18)
Genre(s) Exploration game
Mode(s) Single-player

Accounting is a virtual reality video game by Crows Crows Crows and Squanchtendo, released on Microsoft Windows for the HTC Vive in 2016.

Gameplay and plot

The player is introduced in a small basement office by two accountants (William Pugh and Dominik Johann) through a phonecall as a candidate for a new "virtual reality accounting" experiment, which supposedly increases efficiency in accounting: the player is invited to put on (in-game) a VR helmet. The player is then teleported to a small idyllic meadow, but that's interrupted by a puffy white person sticking out of a tree hollow (Justin Roiland) throwing insults and profanity at the player for showing up uninvited. The accountants contact the player through a landline phone and express their panic about the experiment going wrong, while the player can use a nearby VR helmet to go one level deeper into virtual reality. The player then arrives in a dungeon, meeting The King of VR (Vatche Panos), another puffy obese creature, who is initially friendly but gradually turns insulting; the player stabs and disembowels the King, and pulls out yet another VR helmet from its body to go one level deeper. In the next world, a player finds a xylophone made out of bones, with two chatty skulls (Roiland and Cassie Steele) attached, who urge the player to use other bones to play the xylophone, appearing to have some sort of sexual satisfaction if the player does so and disappointment if the player stops.

In a cabinet behind the player, a small jar of acid is found: drinking it causes the player to die and arrive back one layer in virtual reality, where the player is on trial for killing The King. Though the player has access to a variety of Little Public Defenders (Echo Kellum, Chelsea Kane and Scott Chernoff), tiny egg-like defense lawyers who argue the player's innocence, picking them up and throwing them around will upset the judge (Roiland) who orders the player's execution via guillotine. Once executed, the player appears in the meadow again, but it's entirely on fire, and the tree person angrily orders the player to keep a talking bomb (Arin Hanson) away from the blaze. The player is too late, however, and the bomb explodes, killing the player once again and bringing them back to the basement, where the accountants express their joy about the successful experiment, and the end credits are displayed on a whiteboard. The player can at this point find a loaded gun in a drawer and shoot themselves in the head, which then removes the final layer of (actual) virtual reality and ends the game.

Throughout the game, the player can interact with a variety of objects, which don't change the outcome of the game, and most characters will continue their dialogue indefinitely.

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