Careful, It's Hot key art: an open-plan office with an orange dotted route to a desk, and a mug filled past the brim

Careful, It's Hot!

Fill it to the brim. Carry it to your desk. Don't spill a drop.

About the game

Your boss wants a coffee. A full one. Careful, It's Hot is a first-person comedy game about carrying a cup filled right to the brim across a very busy office, without spilling a drop.

Hold the button to pour and let go before it overflows. Then walk it all the way to your desk before the clock runs out. Every step sloshes, every turn tips it, and deliver too little and it doesn't count. The office does not make way: coworkers wander into your path, doors swing open in your face, dogs want a sniff and the mail cart stops for no one.

It gets worse every day. Across 100 workdays and four promotions, from Intern to the corner office, the office adds fire drills, jackhammers next door, power cuts, sprinkler tests, paper airplanes from the sales team, ping pong in the lounge, a nerf war across the open plan, yoga balls, beach balls, a guy on a scooter, a camera crew and, on the last day, the CEO.

Trailers

Music: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" and "Fluffing a Duck" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. If you re-upload a trailer, keep this credit in the description.

Features

  • One cup, one ruleFill it to the brim, carry it to your desk, don't spill. Anyone gets it from one look.
  • Coffee that sloshesSpeed, turns and bumps all move the liquid. Six cups, from a paper cup to a tiny espresso.
  • 100 workdaysFour promotions from Intern to Director, then the corner office. Every day adds something new.
  • An office out to get you30+ coworkers with their own routines, dogs, carts, chair racers, fire drills and power cuts.
  • Late-game chaosPaper airplanes, ping pong, nerf wars, yoga balls, beach balls, a scooter and the CEO.
  • Nerve and slow-moClose calls and dodges build a score multiplier up to x3, with a beat of slow motion on a near miss.
  • 300 coffee beansThree per day: pass it, deliver it 90% full, spill nothing. Practice any day you've reached.
  • Made for clipsTwo-to-three-minute days, instant retry, and a fail screen for every kind of disaster.
  • Plays anywhereController and Steam Deck support, 18 Steam achievements and a leaderboard.

Gameplay clips

Short silent loops, 1170 px wide. Free to embed in coverage.

Pour and carry. Right to the brim, then out of the break room.
The office. Chair racers, the mail cart, a fire drill.
Later days. Paper airplanes, air mail, yoga balls.
The payoff. A close call, a delivery, a promotion.

Vertical cuts

Ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1080×1920 with captions.

POV · your boss wants it filled to the brim
Day 1 vs Day 84
Each day worse · Day 8 to Day 100
Promo · vertical

Screenshots

14 screenshots, 1920×1080 JPG, straight from the game. Click any image to open it at full size.

Logo and key art

Careful, It's Hot logo, transparent PNG
Logo · transparent PNG, 1280×720
Careful, It's Hot logo, large transparent PNG
Logo, large · transparent PNG, 2205×803
Key art without text
Key art, no text · JPG, 3840×1240
Main capsule
Main capsule · PNG, 1232×706
Header capsule
Header · PNG, 920×430
Vertical capsule
Vertical capsule · PNG, 748×896
Box art, portrait
Box art · PNG, 600×900
Game icon
Icon · PNG, 1024×1024 and 256×256

History

Everyone has done it: filled a mug a little too full, then walked it across the room very, very slowly. Careful, It's Hot started as that one moment, a single mechanic, and grew into a 100-day office career where everything you can imagine, and several things you can't, gets between you and your desk.

The game is made by SO SO Games, a small independent studio, in Unreal Engine 5. The office, its 30-plus residents and their props are built with our own procedural Blender and Unreal tools; the sound effects are real recordings and the soundtrack is Kevin MacLeod's. It's play-tested with a built-in fun meter that tracks flow, close calls and how fast players go again after a spill.

For coverage

ContentOffice slapstick. No blood, no gore, no sexual content. Expected rating: E for Everyone / PEGI 3.
UsageScreenshots, clips, trailers, logo and art on this page may be used freely in coverage, reviews and videos of the game.
StreamingStreaming and monetized videos are welcome. The in-game music is Kevin MacLeod's (CC BY 4.0) and is cleared for streams with credit.
Music credit"Fluffing a Duck", "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys", "Sneaky Snitch", "Carefree", "Wallpaper", "Local Forecast - Elevator" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.
AI disclosureThe hero mug illustration and the store-art backdrops started as images generated with Google Gemini, then were picked, retouched and composited by hand. Everything you play is made by us.

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One zip with the factsheet, screenshots, logo, key art, capsules and the clips.

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