A feel-bad slow burn corporate horror / absurdist comedy game about people making a bad choice for bad and mundane reasons. (Okay, some of the reasons are whacky). Please expect some mechanics and also a lot of improv.

Widepath Hills, a new housing development which markets heavily to families, has requested a meeting with the department heads of Peters, Peters, & Peters Construction Materials.

All the middle managers have to do to win this deal for the Unknowable Forces Which Move their Stock Prices in Various Ways is stick around for long enough that Widepath Hills’ representative is satisfied with each middle manager's moral character.

But something isn’t right about this meeting, about this deal. Everyone there knows it the second they walk through the door, if not sooner.

They’re going to see it through to the bitter end anyways.

Long Description

Do you want the best for your children? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?

There’s a better way.

Welcome to Widepath Hills, where the pies are freshly baked, the lawns are freshly mowed, and every child has a friend to play with.

Widepath Hills (™) specializes in fostering communities of families.

Every weekend, happy home-dwellers will enjoy events curated for families just like yours. You can expect fishing trips, poker games, and knitting circles for the adults, and the kids can get involved with little leagues, theater productions, and more.

With our low housing and utility costs, your family—yes, yours—can afford for a parent to homeschool rather than waste half of their waking hours away from the prizes of their heart.

Your child deserves opportunities to socialize; don’t buy the lie that you need school to do so.

Buy one of our houses instead.

Coming soon: developments near your city. Discounts available for expecting couples and homeschooling couples.

---

Subject Line: Gathering of souls

To: Danica M, Lucca E., Rubies T., Lauds P., The Face

CC: Titus Junior

Dear Colleagues,

Peters, Peters, & Peters Construction Materials Inc. has the opportunity to win our highest-total-contract-value in decades: Widepath Hills.

Having reviewed our decks and found them compelling, the buyer has requested a meeting with you all.

Personal relationships are very important to the buyer, and sincere connections with each of you will let them feel confident doing business with us.

Should you leave before the buyer’s representative—copied on this email—has assessed each and every one of you to his satisfaction, Widepath Hills will opt not to use our materials in their next development.

Suffice it to say, we would prefer that you endure this evaluation until its natural conclusion.

While unusual for heads of departments other than Sales to take a sales call, the mutual value our two companies can bring to one another is great enough to be well worth such a minor departure from norms.

Please find an agenda for this meeting attached.

Best,

The Unknowable Forces Which Move Our Stock Prices in Various Ways

---

We Should Leave is a feel-bad slow burn absurdist comedy game with elements of corporate horror about people making a bad choice for bad and mundane reasons. (Okay, some of the reasons are whacky).

Widepath Hills, a new housing development which markets heavily to couples, has requested a meeting with the department heads of Peters, Peters, & Peters Construction Materials to establish a business relationship.

All the middle managers have to do to win this deal for the Unknowable Forces Which Move their Stock Prices in Various Ways is stick around for long enough that Widepath Hills’ representative is satisfied with each middle manager's moral character.

It’s easy.

… or rather, it should be easy.

But something isn’t right about this meeting, about this deal. Everyone there knows it the second they walk through the door, if not sooner.

They’re going to see it through to the bitter end anyways.

Come find out why, and to what ends. Coffee and donuts provided.

---

Inspiration, vibes-wise:

• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

• My Work Is Not Yet Done among other titles by Thomas Ligotti

• Adventures in Oddyssey

• This

• Quiverfull: inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce

---

Gameplay is powered by one collection of non-diegetic props (simple puzzles), one collection of diegetic props (paper calendar invites), time-based roleplay limitations & abilities, and a meeting agenda.

Sign up to be an executive if you like this stuff: running meetings, knowing more things than other players, competing, improv.

Sign up to be a middle manager if you like this stuff: striving to accomplish goals, experiencing plot twists, arguing, improv.

---

Reasons you may not want to play:

Everyone is a villain, and not in a fun sexy way. All characters will become complicit, in one way or another, with terrible off-stage violence. The game attempts to condemn this complicity.

Some story outcomes in this game respond to player autonomy, and one big one does not: nobody leaves the meeting. I recommend signing up for this game to scratch a “reflecting internally on my character’s decisions as I make them” itch, and not a “majorly changing what happens in the world of the story” itch.

Have I mentioned there is lots of improv? There is lots of improv. I recommend this game for people who like lots of improv, and other games for people who do not like lots of improv.