The Company Man is a Blunder Mifflin platformer you’ll immediately forget

The three personality types are “Person Who Hasn’t Seen The Office,” “Person Who Quotes The Office Constantly,” and “Person Who Loved The Office But Is Tired Of Reading About Pams Looking For Their Jim In Tinder Profiles.” As someone who quotes The Office too much, I really wish I was reviewing this from inside either of the other two camps.

The Company Man is your classic action platformer, where your little dude jumps around and fights other little dudes. Your little dude is named Jim, and you work at a water company, where you set out to unseat the CEO. Via email-based attacks against toxic coworkers, you joust across departments and chug coffee and generally have a pretty mediocre time.

Nothing is functionally wrong with The Company Man. You do attacks and those hurt a stream of generic enemies, allowing you to acquire coins to power up your attacks and skills. But beyond that there’s little else to say about the most normie experience you can find on major gaming platforms in 2022. Even in terms of billing itself as a reference-heavy sitcom fighter (is this a genre?), there’s little here that fulfills that promise beyond a boss that dresses like a 16-bit Dwight in a mustard-colored suit.

It is both sold as an unlicensed NBC workplace brawler and fails to deliver on that promise. What remains is an utterly forgettable few hours of platforming that will go directly into the box for corporate.

See, that’s a reference at least. But it is equally for no one. This is middling management.

You can skip this.