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Unskilled Labor is an anticapitalist tabletop roleplaying game about a slightly fantastical working class. You gain new skills and powers from your various jobs, opening up new possibilities and building on old strengths. However, those jobs saddle you with obligations, take a toll on your health and sleep schedule, and pay you just barely less than enough to survive. You'll have to fight just to keep your head above water, let alone make any kind of meaningful progress. But hey, if you're tough, and clever, and lucky, and persistent, maybe you'll even get to punch a cop in the face.

To play, you'll need a handful of resumes, an old calendar, a deck of Zener cards, a handful of tokens, and pencils and pens. One player takes on the role of the GM (General Manager), while one to seven control PCs (Proletariat Characters). Featuring twelve PC occupations (from Retail to Office Work to Academia to Warehouse to Food Service), five antagonist occupations (from Cop to Landlord to Politician), 145 skills, three pregen PCs, and at least a dozen lines of rules text that made me deeply sad to type out.