Omg! Here’s how to play the Severance game where you can do the MDR job yourself

What the hell the severed Innies are actually doing at work as they slave away for Lumon is one of the biggest Severance talking points – and across two seasons that has not changed. “The work is mysterious and important” – that much we know to be true. And the theories of what Mark and his MDR team are actually working on at Lumon is the spout of so many theories which just deepen episode to episode. We know there’s numbers, we know there’s whatever the hell Cold Harbor might be. It just looks like they drag and drop numbers – and now you can too, because there’s a Severance game out where you can actually play and the MDR job yourself! Here’s how to get on it and what happens.

It’s bizarre

I was going the most bizarre looks in the co-working space as people walked past my desk clearly thinking they were living in a simulation or something – but you can literally play this Severance game and look like you’re in the show and the newest MDR recruit. Never felt more like I was actually severed.

If you go to lumon-industries.com you’ll be greeted with the desktop just like the show. Then what? Numbers will jump out to you and you have two use your mouse and cursor to group the ones that feel weird and then the game will sort them and dispose like you’d expect. You get a little bar going up that tracks your progress. It’s bizarrely kind of stressful – it made me feel like I had motion sickness and the game really captures the unease of the show in the best way.

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And there are a few surprises in the mix too, of course. It actually takes longer than you might think to get through the game – but if you make it to 75 per cent you’ll be treated to a dance party from Milchick which makes it all worth doing in the first place. And even more of a treat gives you boasting rights if you make it to 100 per cent – but I won’t ruin it for you you can get your way up there yourself.

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