Title says it all, what are some games that an idiot manager can look at and think you're doing work?
dwarf fortress, and say that your program is compiling or some shit. or really any game that looks like a command window.
Those old command line interactive fiction games, like Zork, would work too.
thats what i was thinking of, but didnt know what that type of game was called.
To add onto this, any old school roguelike like nethack, dungeon crawl stone soup, brogue, etc
Maybe try cataclysm:dda
Depends on your job, but I'd look into Zachtronics games, especially TIS-100, which is basically just a game where you solve puzzles by writing programs in an assembly-type language.
I used to plan out my circuits and coding for Shenzhen I/O in excel at work and then just email them to myself for when I got home
Of course there would usually be something I forgot that made it completely fail when I tried it in the actual game but it was better than, you know, actually working
Great game too
Hmmm, I've been wanting to learn assembly for a while, I might have to try this out, thanks!
theft from your employer
fraud at/under legal cover of your employer
I love Cultist Simulator too but I've always felt kind of uncomfortable recommending it as the lead dev and owner of the company is a sexual predator who uses their corporate positions and indie game dev clout to extort sexual favors and silence their victims.
If you've gotta play it I'd strong recommend piracy.
There's an excel sheet version of 2048 that I used to play a lot a work. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2014/05/27/2048-excel-style/
Tabletop mobile games like hearthstone and TES legends
Used to play them at work and school
