Dead End Job

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Dead End Job sends you into a madcap, Ren & Stimpy -esque world to bust up [link deleted]’s a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter that straps a vacuum pack to your back, and puts a plasma blaster in your hand. For you, it’s just another day in the office.

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Developer:
Ant Workshop Ltd
Publisher:
Headup Games
Release date:
13 December 2019
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (72)

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Description



Dead End Job sends you into a madcap, Ren & Stimpy-esque world to bust up ghosts. It’s a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter that straps a vacuum pack to your back, and puts a plasma blaster in your hand. For you, it’s just another day in the office.

  • Exorcise restaurants, offices and other buildings.
  • Use a plasma blaster, your trusty vacuum pack and a whole range of supernatural items.
  • Save your mentor's soul or she'll spend eternity as a spook (voted “Least Preferred Fate” in Ghost Hunter Monthly).
  • So many ghosts.
  • A madcap story written by IGF nominee Xalavier Nelson Jr
  • Drop in/drop out couch co-op, as your mentor appears to lend a hand!
  • Stunning cartoon-quality artwork inspired by 90’s favourites like Ren & Stimpy.
  • Actually, maybe too many ghosts?
  • Featuring original music by the award-winning Will Morton (Grand Theft Auto series).
  • Twitch and Mixer integration allows viewers to help or hinder the streamer.
  • Seriously, can someone please get rid of all of these ghosts?



Please note that Dead End Job supports mouse & keyboard controls for single player, but couch co-op requires at least one player to use a controller.

Familiar Haunts

You take on the role of Hector Plasm, a worker at Ghoul-B-Gone – ‘the Number One experts in paranormal pest control’ – as you’re tasked with heading to haunted offices, restaurants, and other everyday buildings before freeing them of unwanted guests. One minute you're sucking up specters, the next you're sucking up to your bosses, chasing that promotion.
Have you got what it takes to be the best at putting pests to rest?

Don’t Suck… Well, Actually Do

Exercise that fighting spirit, since every specter you snag and every resident you rescue is added to your client’s bill at the end of the job. Haunted by the ghost of your mentor, quite literally, you must learn the ropes and to save her soul before she’s forced to spend eternity as a spook (voted “Least Preferred Fate” in Ghost Hunter Monthly).

Kindred Spirits

Play alone or bust ghosts with a buddy in drop in / drop out co-op that works seamlessly within the main adventure. Plus you can play to an audience with Twitch and Mixer interactivity that allows viewers to help or hinder your assault on the afterlife.

Ghost Writer

Do you love 90's cartoons? Yeah, so do we, and we grew up on their stretchy squishy gross-out laughs. Our love for them spills over into the game like so much ectoplasm. See every nose hair in wacky, vibrant art that brings everyday items to life as screwball spooks to suck up. To top it off, the entire adventure is backed by music from the award-winning Will Morton (Grand Theft Auto series).

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64 Bit
Processor:
2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce 8800 or equivalent
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
2 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

User reviews

iLLNaturedGamingYT
Not recommended | 10 Dec 2022
2.4h played

"It’s a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter that straps a vacuum pack to your back and puts a plasma blaster in your hand." Why is it said to be couch co op when player two is VERY useless, all

Helpful: 15
Astaritus
Recommended | 23 Mar 2022
9.2h played

At a time when the new Ghostbuster game has not yet been released, and is only being developed, we bring to your attention a small indie substitute! A game in which you will again visit the body of an incompetent ghost

Helpful: 9
BatGirlJack
Not recommended | 05 Jul 2023
19 min played

I bought this to play local co-op but it was just awful. The second player can only shoot goo that doesn't even affect the ghosts and actually hinders the main players movement. Seriously? WTF? If both players were

Helpful: 13
MrEmperorSir
Not recommended | 22 Oct 2024
3.9h played

While the game can be a fun little rogue-like, losing literally everything by dying to something you cannot see is not fun. And the upgrade system is vague. Some "upgrades" will actively destroy your run. Try it for a

Helpful: 3
CustomerON
Recommended | 09 Dec 2023
12.7h played

I FORGOT TO POST A REVIEW ON THIS???? Pretty goddarn good game. I played it non-stop during a few days where I had been burnt out creatively, and I gotta say it was a lot of fun that's all cya

Helpful: 0
NOMAD_IX
Not recommended | 09 May 2023
39 min played

It was okay but there are much better games of this type to play. The coop isn't very good. The second player can jump in and out taking the form of the Beryl the ghost. She doesn't do anything other than fly around and

Helpful: 6