ColdCall: Telesales Sim

About the game

ColdCall is a dark-comedy telemarketing sim. You're 34, your business just went under, and SureWin Wealth is the only company that called you back. The job: cold-call strangers and sell them wealth products. Everything they say comes flying at you, and you have exactly one task: don't let them hang up.

Story and setting inspired by a Chinese author's essay about doing telesales in Guangzhou. Gameplay partly inspired by Undertale.

• Dodge the insults, catch the agreement: every line they say is a bullet
  
• The chef answers with a cleaver, the barber brings two pairs of scissors: whatever they do for a living, that's what hits you
  
• The suspicious one, the indecisive one, the talker, the one reading out a verification code: everybody on the list has their own routine
  
• The lead the AI scored 90/100 might be a rival telemarketer
  
• Xiaocheng, the AI compliance bot, listens in on every call. Each time it catches you, it comes out of your paycheck

• Big client Mr. Wang picks up the phone and fights you himself: he charges, he smokes, he throws cash
  
• Friday leaderboard decides your commission: first place doubles it, last place pays a penalty
  
• Base pay depends on talk time, commission on your rank. The rent doesn't care about either

• Doudou's tutoring, Mom's medicine, this month's rent: which one gets paid? Short on cash? There's always CashPal
  
• Close one deal and you stay. Close none and you're out
  
• Sales Champion, jumping ship with a coworker, or back to job hunting?

Eighty hang-ups today. Are you dialing number eighty-one?

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