Progress Wars: grinding considered as a game


Progress Wars is a pretty arch and funny critique of the way that video games are often more compelling/engrossing than fun. A variety of random missions are generated, one after another ("Hijack Silk Traders," "Attain warehouse") which you complete by repeatedly clicking a "Perform mission" button, which edges a progress bar toward completion. Once you finish a mission, you get another one. And another, and another. As Fipi Lele says, "The guy at the end is really hard."

Progress Wars

(Thanks, Fipi!)