Doug Hates His Job

Critic reviews

• DDarkstation

  Lee Mehr · May 05, 2020

  2.0

  Jumbled, infuriating, and unfinished are a few choice adjectives I can attribute to Doug Hates His Job. The panoply of gameplay styles it wants to flex should be treated as a canary in the coal mine for other young developers. The mockumentary approach makes its dull humor more of a mockery than of the white-collar job climate it’s lampooning. As a result, Super Villain Games succeeded in helping me relate to Doug's plight in one crucial way: hating my reviewing job — if only for a short time.
• XTXbox Tavern

  Jamie Collyer · Apr 24, 2020

  4.0

  There’s a fairly entertaining story here, of a man who hates his job so much, yet continues to do the outlandish things his boss sets out for him. It’s just a shame that the actual gameplay is, quite simply, not very fun. From sloppy, unfair 2D brawling to overly repetitive arena combat, it’s likely that most will be put off before the adventure even truly begins.

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• TTheXboxHub

  Jahanzeb Khan · Apr 24, 2020

  2.0

  Doug Hates His Job on Xbox One has an interesting setup for what could have been a gamer’s dream game, because a lot of us still play video games well into our adult life as a fantasy escape from our dreadful jobs and responsibilities. Instead, it ends up being an experience far more dreary and painful than a day job.

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