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Welcome to the Karoshi Club
If you're nervous about job searching and interviews, face your fears head-on in "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" a Japanese horror business punk visual novel.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“It is a really interesting psychological horror visual novel. You play as Kenji, a former game developer who is looking for a new job. Most of the game takes place during a strange job interview, where you need to make choices and decide whether to tell the truth or lie. As you…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Welcome to the Karoshi Club turns one of modern working life’s most uncomfortable rituals, the job interview, into the foundation for a strange and effective psychological horror story. Rather than beginning with monsters, abandoned buildings, or conventional supernatural…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Cross Promo - Delta Demo by 0xc3pti0n
Hello everyone! Our close friends have released a demo of their game "Delta" Please play it and rate it on Steam:
Update 1.3.0
Update 1.3.0 Overview Add Spanish Language Pack Add Spanish Language Pack We’re absolutely thrilled to announce our latest addition: the Spanish Language Pack! It fills us with joy to see our communit
Steam Visual Novel Fest 2025 & Special Recommendation
Steam Visual Novel Fest 2025 This year, we are also participating in the Visual Novel Games Festival, which is exciting! Don't forget to visit the main page to discover some great games in the genre!
The Storyteller's Festival 2025
The Storyteller's Festival 2025 We are delighted with the "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" at The Storyteller's Festival by TwoHalfStudios. Please check out a variety of cool games: https://store.steampo
Congratulations on completing your first year at Keneō Industry!
We want to thank everyone who played our free prologue for Karoshi Club! Your feedback and reviews are greatly appreciated! Don't forget to add Karoshi Club in your Wishlist https://store.steampowered
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Casual · Visual Novel · Anime · Exploration · 2D · Hand-drawn · 1990's · Capitalism · Atmospheric · Dark · Psychological Horror · Sci-fi (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Vietnamese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America |
| Achievements | 5 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 230 MB available space