I see you are making money...
Exoptable Money is an indie game. The game revolves around making as much money as possible, which spouts from a single red box. Over time, the player will receive letters from unseen characters who wish to 'help' you make more money.Remakes of both this game and it's sequel Presentable Liberty were announced
on Kickstarter, but it failed to reach its goal, as did a second and third attempt. Sadly, the games will never be remade, as the creator, Robert Brock (aka Wertpol), committed suicide sometime in early 2018.
This game provides examples of:
- Ambition Is Evil: Not the player… but Doctor Money. And Madame Sinclaire, who kills your cat.
- Asshole Victim: At the end of the game, Dr. Money is stated to have died from his own virus and Madame Sinclaire is heavily implied to have gotten it too but the two have done some really awful things with Madame Sinclaire killing your cat to sell their fur and Dr. Money being the dude who created the virus so he can make a quick buck to sell an "antidote" that causes organ failure and than sell organs that don't do much.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted. Dr. Money ends up taking all of your cash for himself. However, the virus that he had created in order to make millions off of the dying country ends up killing him in the end.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Madame Sinclaire shows her true colors by killing your cat so you can sell their fur.
- Big Bad: It appears to be Madame Sinclaire at first, but Dr. Money eventually takes over the role.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Madame Sinclaire, who first appears to be wanting to get to know you as a penpal and partner, before murdering your cat.
- But Thou Must!: Even if you never send the cat out, by the time it's time for the game to get you cat hair, the cat will leave on its own for Madame Sinclaire to see.
- Black Comedy: The sheer irony of the ending is not only dark, but utterly hilarious, in its own crushing kind of way. First, your machine breaks, and is completely irreparable. Doctor Money offers to sell you a can opener for the mysterious can in your inventory, but it costs all of your money - every last cent. Starving, you open the can and find... BEANS. You devour them, destroying the one reward you have left, then die in short order from your organs failing you. Doctor Money continues to make money, but he too eventually gets infected by the virus and dies, and it's implied Madame Sinclair meets the same fate as well. All three of you met your death while chasing the almighty dollar, and in the end, it was All for Nothing.
- Blood-Stained Letter: What you receive after Madame Sinclaire kills your cat.
- Capitalism Is Bad: Both characters who write letters to you have ways to make more money than you initially have but they both have inhumane ways to do so.
- Madame Sinclaire: She kills your cat and has you sell their fur.
- Dr. Money: He infects people with a virus so they can buy his antidote which in turn causes organ failure so he can sell cheap organs that will kill you in a few days
- Cute Kitten: You can buy one that you send out to get more and more money for you. Just don't get too attached to it, if you bought it before Madame Sinclair introduces cat fur as a source of money. If you bought it after, and keep it with you, the cat will live, even if you activate the fur procedure to full and finish the game.
- Disguised Horror Story: The game initially presents itself as some kind of Cookie Clicker-esque game with you making money to buy upgrades to make even more money but then things take a turn when Madame Sinclaire kills your cat and you can sell said cat's fur for money and later human organs. Later, Dr. Money gives you a virus of which you die from at the end.
- Downer Ending: Near the end of the game, Dr. Money promises to send you a gift once you fully upgrade your money machine. Doing so, however, causes the machine to break down completely, and the doctor ends up taking all of your money. In return, he then sends you… a can opener to open your tin can, which is revealed to be nothing more than a can of beans. You just lost your money-making machine along with every cent that you made, and all you have left is a can of beans for food, which you eat ravenously and thus obliterate your only true reward. The epilogue then states that you died a week later due to your organs "failing you". Oh, and there's also a war being fought against the Chinese in the East, who might just be the only people who are surviving the Pandemic.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Upgrading the money machine sufficiently will unlock the next item to put in the machine. Midway through the game, the item unlocked after topaz is cat fur. This can be revealed right before you open Madame Sinclaire's next letter, which contains your dead cat that Madame Sinclaire slaughtered.
- Gorn: Really comes into play once you start harvesting cat fur and human organs. When you unlock them, your machine starts spouting blood, fur, whiskers, and pounds upon pounds of organs.
- Great Offscreen War: During the story there's a war going on between the East and the West. You never get to see it but Dr. Money initially tries to make money off of you by asking to donate to the war effort. When that doesn't work, he infects you with his virus so you can buy his cure.
- Greed: The overall theme of the game. How far is a person willing to go to make money? What sacrifices have to be made? And most importantly, will it even be worth it in the end?
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The ending reveals that Dr. Money was killed by the same virus that he himself had created.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Madame Sinclaire is heavily implied to have gotten the virus and while we never know her fate, it can be reasonably assumed that she died. Although she wasn't the only victim of the virus, she was probably of the victims of that had it coming after she killed your cat.
- Misapplied Phlebotinum: So, you have a box which can make money. Sinclaire and Dr. Money later prove that it can also make countless amounts of organs, blood, fur, and whiskers, implying that it could be used to manufacture anything, including the cure. But, all Dr. Money wants to use it for is to make money.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Dr. Money is incredibly cruel and greedy.
- Offstage Villainy: Because the entire game presumably in set in one room, you never get to see any of Dr. Money making the virus, spreading it, selling the antidote and the organs among the general population. You also never get to see Madame Sinclaire killing your cat other than being mailed the cat's head.
- Uncertain Doom: We never learn the fate of Madame Sinclaire. It's heavily implied that she got the virus as she mentioned the rest of her family had died from said virus and in one of her last letters, she says she has to buy new organs, which the Player had to been selling to victims of the virus. It can be reasonably assumed that she died but unlike Dr. Money who is stated in the ending to have died from the virus, it just says that "Madame Sinclaire was never seen again".
