Fit check
Is Crush the Industry worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Deckbuilder fans interested in building skill combinations across runs
- Players drawn to games about workplace challenges and corporate advancement
- Roguelike players who want unlockable characters and difficulty levels
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a story-focused campaign with a detailed narrative arc
- Players who prefer stable health and predictable effects during combat
- Players looking for real-time stealth strategy, as in Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Our take on Crush the Industry
The corporate-climb premise sets the scene, while the described activity focuses on deckbuilding, combat encounters, and unlocking content. The store text gives little detail about how the climb itself is portrayed beyond career progression and milestone rewards.
What is Crush the Industry?
Crush the Industry is a roguelike deckbuilder about working up through a game studio.
Each career run has an evolving schedule and draws on a collection of over 200 skills and talents, which can combine into different synergies. Players face workplace challenges, manage sanity, and contend with a health system that changes over time. Cycling lets players draw new skills as they prepare combinations. The game features over 40 battle encounters and a cast of playable characters. Milestones unlock additional characters, skills, talents, bosses, and difficulty levels. Hard Mode and the 9 Circles of Corporate Hell offer further challenges.
How Crush the Industry plays
- 01Skill and talent deck
- The game includes over 200 skills and talents that can combine into synergies.
- 02Changing run schedule
- The schedule changes over the course of career runs.
- 03Cycling mechanic
- Cycling draws new skills to support preparing combinations.
- 04Workplace encounters
- More than 40 battles feature opponents themed around studio life and gaming communities.
- 05Milestone unlocks
- Progress milestones unlock characters, skills, talents, bosses, and difficulty levels.
Crush the Industry compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown also combines combat with deckbuilding, but its description emphasizes positioning, attack tiles, and preparing for a fight with the Shogun. Crush the Industry centers its encounters on workplace challenges and adds sanity effects and career progression.
Crush the Industry: platforms & release
Is Crush the Industry worth it?
It is worth it if: deckbuilder fans interested in building skill combinations across runs. Skip it if: players seeking a story-focused campaign with a detailed narrative arc.
Where can I download Crush the Industry?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Crush the Industry's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Crush the Industry on?
Windows and macOS.
