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Thank You For Your Application
Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“After countless rejections, I finally landed a job where I reject everyone else. In the vicious cycle of a broken job market, following protocol makes me a model employee, while showing any humanity makes me a liability.”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“Wow... Never in a million years would I have actually agreed with someone if they told me that being an Interviewer could be fun; I would have chuckled in their face before kindly directing them towards the nearest hospital for a mental eval. You'd assume that a game that…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“May your labor be everlasting. May your work be without end. Thank You For Your Application is kinda like Papers Please, minus the constant financial stress, obscure errors, high stakes, and everything else I loved about the OG. I usually adore games that involve squinting at…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 1.1.4: New Languages | Forum Event is Live!
Dear Interviewers, Thank you, as always, for your continued support. Lab HQ is pleased to announce that Thank You for Your Application has just been updated to Version 1.1.4, adding support for the fo
Patch Note 1.1.3
Fixed an issue where text displayed as "None" when using certain languages.
Patch Note 1.1.2
Fixed the issue where the apartment panel would go black when using Traditional Chinese.
Patch Note 1.1.1: Piecework Mode & Customisable Controls Added
Hi interviewers, Thank You For Your Application has released for a month. Thank you for all your support and reviews—we’ve now received more than 800 Steam reviews ! We’ve also received a great deal o
Patch Note 1.0.16
\ Adjusted the Japanese and Chinese wording of the recruitment requirements on Days 20–21. Adjusted autosave points so that autosaves are now created after each day’s settlement. \ Fixed an issue on D
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Simulation |
| Player tags | Point & Click · 2D · Pixel Graphics · Dystopian · Singleplayer · Capitalism · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Indie · RPG · Political Sim · Retro (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 15 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 or Higher (64bit) Processor: Intel Core i3, 2.5GHz or AMD Athlon equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® 700 series or AMD Radeon™ equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space