Gaming 'Fallout but in Excel' Lets You Visit the Wasteland While Your Boss Thinks You're Working

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A YouTuber has taken a boring office product and injected an RPG you can play while pretending to look at spreadsheets.

If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It’s the end of the world, all over again.

How do you turn spreadsheet software into a video game? Don’t ask me because I have less than zero idea. That said, the game’s creator, YouTuber “Dynamic Pear,” has offered a quick tutorial on how to use his weird, makeshift game that was developed via everybody’s least favorite office software.

On his website, “Pear” gives a brief description of the game’s story like so:

It is the 145th year of the second age. Life in Mercer is unrecognisable to that which came earlier – The bombs saw to that. Humanity may never fully recover…Adventure beckons once more, and you are ready to answer its call!

The YouTuber explains that his game has two components: “Mapping and Questing” and “Battling.” You can move through the various areas of the bombed-out RPG environment...

'Fallout but in Excel' Lets You Visit the Wasteland While Your Boss Thinks You're Working

A YouTuber has taken a boring office product and injected an RPG you can play while pretending to look at spreadsheets.

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