5 MAY 2025 - Excel obsessives, conditional formatting fanatics, and corporate climbers: SpreadCheat by Norwegian indie studio Games People Play is officially live! Today marks the full release of the world’s bestest (and onliest) 90s-styled spreadsheet puzzler, now available for PC on Steam.
To celebrate, SpreadCheat is launching with a 20% discount on its $6.99 USD price (check out this spreadsheet to reveal the true launch price: shorturl.at/8Llyu)
Fire up your virtual Pentium computer and start cheating your way to the top!
Spreadcheat’s Release Trailer:
Here is what the press had to say:
"You know what we need more games about? Financial fraud. Spreadcheat is a game where you do just that by cooking the books."
- The Gamer
"A smile in an .exe file"
- Thumb Culture
"A deeply odd and funny puzzle game about life in a bro-driven ‘90s business"
- PC Gamer
"SpreadCheat is the Dark Souls of Microsoft Excel simulators. It has my coveted inexplicable dolphin pop-up of approval. It's brazenly high-low effort in a way I deeply enjoy."
- Rock Paper Shotgun
Press & Creators who want to dive into the corporate lifestyle of the 90s can request a Steam code here:
Request a Steam Key for SpreadcheatSteam: store.steampowered.com/app/2966550/SpreadCheat
Press kit: spreadcheat.notion.site/Spreadcheat
Press contact: jack@gamespeopleplay.co
About the Game
SpreadCheat is an Excel-inspired puzzle game that brings you back to the glory days of Windows 3.11 and corporate culture. Under the tutelage of a sleazy 90s finance bro, you’ll bend, break, and backdate financial spreadsheets to hit impossible targets, manipulate budgets, and cover up toxic office antics, all one cell at a time.
- Cell-Bending Missions: Tackle dozens of numeric brainteasers across an over-the-top single-player campaign. Each mission gives you a cheeky mission text and a target number. Figure out how to make the cells add up and outsmart your boss’s shady directives.
- Corporate Shenanigans: Dive into side-tasks like virus cleanup, desktop scrubbing, and PowerPointing. Every distraction is an opportunity to bulk up your corporate cred.
- Retro Windows 3.11 Aesthetic: Feast your eyes on a 256-color palette and pixel-perfect UI elements, chill out to a tense MIDI background track and surf the spreadsheets with your own (and somehow even worse) Clippy-esque assistant, Corpy
- Daily Challenge: Keep flexing your spreadsheet muscles with a brand new procedurally generated puzzle every day, impress your friends, win hearts, and tell everyone you meet about your current streak.
Get ready to cheat, climb, and conquer - SpreadCheat is live now!
About Games People Play
Games People Play is a Norwegian indie developer founded by Jack Kristoffersen and Joachim Barrum. With credits including Daze Before Christmas (SNES), Sega Extreme Sports (Dreamcast), and Project IGI (Pentium PC), the duo reunites veteran talent and new blood for games that blend retro charm with modern twists.
For Spreadcheat, they brought on board the following nerds:
Artist Simon Nyhus (Fruitbus, Sunlight)
Composer/audio designer Eirik Johansen (Vermintide 2: Chaos Wastes, Block N Load)
Writer David Skaufjord (Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley)
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