Embr is what I've been waiting for, but didn't really know I wanted.

Embr has a lot going for it visually. It has first and foremost a charming, cohesive, and inviting aesthetic. Bold and bright colors make it a cheerful experience even at its most frantic or desperate. The chunky low-poly aesthetic comes together to remind me at least passingly of Ed Edd and Eddy and other cartoon classics of my youth. Interactable items and hazards are easy to understand, while presenting interesting challenges. I can't make any claims about color-blind-friendliness, but the game relies strongly on large, animated, chunky shapes, so I'm sure it's definitely not doing poorly at it. In all, the whole game is easy to understand and fun to look at.

It follows that up with a really charming sense of humor satirizing the gig economy at every turn. From the career fair introduction to the absolute dingdong clients that you're yanking from their preoccupation taking a selfie with their burning television. I'm particularly amused by the clients that are so insistent on taking a right proper dump that left unattended they will quietly dash back into a burning building to finish their business and ruin yours. Embr has *aggressive* competition in the form of Hoser, but you'll need to play the game to get the skinny on that drama.

It's a very refreshing thing to be boldly dashing into danger to save people with something that isn't a gun, from something that isn't people with guns, or things that are best handled by some other kind of non-gun-related murder. The game doesn't go out of its way to spatter blood on the wall, make the clients scream in agony while they're throwing themselves bodily into a grease fire either. Instead they have Embr's app informing you politely via text message that a person has expired, and turning them immediately into a hilariously goofy cartoon skeleton. People are dim and distracted, but also so perfectly unconcerned with what's going on around them that failure doesn't have much of a sting.

Embr's gameplay has a really creative and cute array of tools that gets you to think outside of the box when doing your duties. Rounds can last as little as five minutes, and in that way really respects my time as a working person. In the hours I've played, I have thrown clients from a burning building onto mattresses, waterslides, other players, and even for a while a helpfully angled bouncepad. I've made bridges out of ladders and deployed at least one magical, flying, slip n' slide of doom as I throw myself around a burning pile of industrial shipping crates that have been converted into fire-prone homes.

Get this game! It's good solo, it's better with friends, but it's never bad.

Embr is what I've been waiting for, but didn't really know I wanted. Embr has a lot going for it visually. It has first and foremost a charming, cohesive, and inviting aesthetic. Bold and bright colors make it a cheerful experience even at its most frantic or desperate. The chunky low-poly aesthetic comes together to remind me at least passingly of Ed Edd and Eddy and other cartoon classics of my youth. Interactable items and hazards are easy to understand, while presenting interesting challenges. I can't make any claims about color-blind-friendliness, but the game relies strongly on large, animated, chunky shapes, so I'm sure it's definitely not doing poorly at it. In all, the whole game is easy to understand and fun to look at. It follows that up with a really charming sense of humor satirizing the gig economy at every turn. From the career fair introduction to the absolute dingdong clients that you're yanking from their preoccupation taking a selfie with their burning television. I'm particularly amused by the clients that are so insistent on taking a right proper dump that left unattended they will quietly dash back into a burning building to finish their business and ruin yours. Embr has *aggressive* competition in the form of Hoser, but you'll need to play the game to get the skinny on that drama. It's a very refreshing thing to be boldly dashing into danger to save people with something that isn't a gun, from something that isn't people with guns, or things that are best handled by some other kind of non-gun-related murder. The game doesn't go out of its way to spatter blood on the wall, make the clients scream in agony while they're throwing themselves bodily into a grease fire either. Instead they have Embr's app informing you politely via text message that a person has expired, and turning them immediately into a hilariously goofy cartoon skeleton. People are dim and distracted, but also so perfectly unconcerned with what's going on around them that failure doesn't have much of a sting. Embr's gameplay has a really creative and cute array of tools that gets you to think outside of the box when doing your duties. Rounds can last as little as five minutes, and in that way really respects my time as a working person. In the hours I've played, I have thrown clients from a burning building onto mattresses, waterslides, other players, and even for a while a helpfully angled bouncepad. I've made bridges out of ladders and deployed at least one magical, flying, slip n' slide of doom as I throw myself around a burning pile of industrial shipping crates that have been converted into fire-prone homes. Get this game! It's good solo, it's better with friends, but it's never bad.