Admin
Admin is a short, charming point-and-click where you play IT support for an office full of forgetful coworkers. It's light on challenge but heavy on personality - exactly the kind of game you'll finish with a smile and immediately wish had a sequel.
Reviewed Game
✓ Pros
- +Sharp, consistent humor with genuinely likable characters
- +Clever environmental storytelling through notes and office details
- +Zero friction - easy to pick up, satisfying to complete
✗ Cons
- −Very short (30-45 minutes)
- −Puzzles rarely challenge experienced point-and-click players
If you've ever worked in an office, Admin will feel uncomfortably familiar. After a New Year's party bender wipes everyone's memory of their passwords, you — the only competent person in the building - are tasked with getting the whole office back online, one sticky note at a time. Originally released in 2021, it quietly received an update as recently as January 2026, a sign that this small game still has people looking after it.
The puzzle design is gentle by intent. Most solutions involve scanning the environment for post-it notes and matching the clue to something nearby —-a favorite color, a colleague's birthday, a mug on a desk. Nothing will stump you for long, and that's fine. Admin isn't trying to be an escape room; it's trying to make you laugh, and it succeeds.
The highlight is a mid-game puzzle that sends you digging through a bookshelf to cross-reference a character's horoscope against their birthday. It's the one moment the game asks you to hold two pieces of information in your head at once, and it lands well - clever without being cruel.
What carries Admin above its modest ambitions is the writing. Every character has a distinct voice. The humor is dry and consistent - the kind where you read a post-it note and actually chuckle rather than just acknowledge the joke. For a short free game made by three people, the personality packed into it is impressive.
The only disappointment is the credits screen. Not because anything went wrong - but because it arrived too soon. In 2025, developer GabeMalk announced Admin 2 is in the works. There's been no update since, but if the sequel carries even half the charm of the original, it'll be worth the wait.