Clock Out

Clock Out turns an office day into solitaire. Each hour four cards come up, and you deal with three of them; the fourth carries over into the next hour, and choosing which one to leave is half the game. Colleagues and deadlines cost patience, shown as a bar at the top of the screen. Coffee gives it back, but only once an hour; a second cup that hour is wasted. An excuse can absorb a hit, but it wears out: once it has covered a 9, it only covers cards below 9. Two breaks a day push the current four cards back for later, never two hours in a row.

The deck is the clock, 44 cards from 9am to 5pm. Run out of patience and the game tells you what time it was and how many cards you were from the door. Every day has a par, the best finish that deck allows, solved exactly beforehand, so no one can beat it; matching it makes a perfect day. Your best run on each day shows as a ghost on the patience bar, and a rating rises for clean days on hard decks and falls when you walk out.

Today's day is the same deck for everyone, with a streak and a result you can copy in one click. The day is picked from a bank of 500 decks, each solved for its par, and the game walks through all of them before one repeats. A new deck comes at midnight on your own clock. Any day in the bank can be played by its number, and New day deals one at random. The game has no sound and no timer, saves after every card and fits in a narrow window or on a phone. Its itch.io page notes that AI assisted with code and graphics.