Every Purchase and What It Costs You

Twenty-six purchases across four categories. This table lists the price of each and what it does to your three meters.

The four categories

Flatters leadership, reaches staff, pure burn, and process and consulting. The ending logic looks at how your spending splits across these, and letting one category dominate triggers its matching ending.

Repeatable purchases

Some items can be bought more than once, and holding the button buys in bulk. The effect decays though — ten branded mugs is not ten times one branded mug.

Purchase list

PurchasePriceCategoryEffect
A personal light show for the CEO$1,880,000Flatters leadership
Morale -4
Approval +18
Suspicion +6
Custom walk-on music for the CEO$880,000Flatters leadership
Morale -3
Approval +12
Founder origin-story documentary$1,280,000Flatters leadership
Approval +15
Suspicion +4
Twelve-foot portrait of leadership$620,000Flatters leadership
Morale -5
Approval +9
Drone show spelling the company name$1,560,000Flatters leadership
Approval +14
Suspicion +5
A celebrity who peaked in 2011$2,600,000Flatters leadership
Morale +4
Approval +16
Suspicion +8
80-slide strategy deck$980,000Process & consulting
Morale -2
Approval +5
Suspicion +10
Two-day rebrand workshop$760,000Process & consulting
Approval +4
Suspicion +7
AI transformation white paper$1,120,000Process & consulting
Approval +11
Suspicion +9
External culture consultant$540,000Process & consulting
Morale -3
Suspicion +6
Company-wide OKR retraining$380,000Process & consulting
Morale -6
Approval +6
Holographic SYNERGY sign$580,000Pure burn
Suspicion +5
5,000 mugs printed with the values
Up to 3×
$490,000Pure burn
Morale -2
Suspicion +3
Actors hired to play excited employees$600,000Pure burn
Morale -8
Suspicion +14
Gold-leaf dessert station$720,000Pure burn
Morale +3
Suspicion +11
200 custom crystal awards
Up to 4×
$260,000Pure burn
Approval +4
Metaverse breakout room$1,340,000Pure burn
Approval +8
Suspicion +12
Mandatory desert hiking retreat$1,280,000Pure burn
Morale -12
Approval +7
One extra day of lunch stipend
Up to 20×
$30,000Reaches staff
Morale +6
$100 bonus for everyone
Up to 10×
$200,000Reaches staff
Morale +14
Approval -8
Cancel one recurring meeting
Up to 5×
0Reaches staff
Morale +10
Approval -5
Real chairs for everyone$1,600,000Reaches staff
Morale +18
Approval -4
Skip the leadership photo op0Reaches staff
Morale +8
Approval -12
Travel fund for employees' families$1,900,000Reaches staff
Morale +20
Approval -6
Suspicion +4
Rides home for everyone that night
Up to 3×
$120,000Reaches staff
Morale +7
Leave two hours early on Fridays (pilot)0Reaches staff
Morale +16
Approval -14
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