


This man will appear later in the theory, so don't forget him.Īround this time is when you are hired. Once the robots are discarded, they are found by a man who recharges them using the city's power, which causes power shortages. This is why there are robot arms in some of the levels. This led to the people destroying some hostile robots and discarding others. Many companies purchased these robots, including the HRM building.ĭuring or after the robots were created and distributed, the robots went haywire and began forcefully removing people from their job in order to replace them. These robots would come in large sizes, such as the ones seen surrounding the city, and small sizes, such as the one seen taking over the news broadcast. This outside company's main focus was to create robots that could replace anyone's job. Because if the robots were created by the HRM building, then the HRM building would have had access to computers way sooner. Because the robots are too big to find space for in/nearby the HRM building, and 2. The HRM building couldn't have created the robots for two reasons: 1. I'm going to go through the robot's history chronologically, and I will try to explain everything the best I can.įirst, there is a company elsewhere that is creating the robots. Now is time for the really important part, the history of the robots. This doesn't mean that floors that don't deal with words aren't dealing with decrypting/encrypting messages. In the last few years, most of the outputs are words if not entire messages, and there are even a few words in earlier years.

The HRM building's other levels are mainly focused on encrypting/decrypting messages. Since no real work happens in the first few floors, I believe that is where work surrounding news is located, which is also how Carol (AKA the news lady) is able to fall from the building without dying. Once you enter blue-colored years, the boss man begins mentioning other groups being involved in your work, such as the "zero advocacy community". This is proven by the boss lady mentioning on year 12 that the output of your work is just going into a wastebin in the next room. The first few floors (specifically the orange-colored ones) are designed fo training employees. The HRM building is the building in which the game takes place. To start, let's cover the detais of the HRM building. Just a disclaimer, none of this is in any way 100% true, and this is just my take on the story after some careful thought and lots of playthroughs. I scowered the internet for an answer, but my efforts were fruitless, so I decided to create my own theory. The cutscenes don't show much other than what is happening to the HRM building the moment your hired, and what's on the news during breaks. I now believe that the game is all about robots slowly taking the jobs of people around the world, and at the end of the game the player having their job taken by a robot created by their own company, which was being created throughout the game as shown by the researchers and failed robots.įor a long time before and after I played Human Resource Machine, I was wondering about the story behind the game. EDIT: Looking back, a lot of points may have just been for comedic purposes and are not tied with important events in the story, so take this with a grain of salt.
