London. 1843. You are the hardworking ledger clerk of the counting house of Scrooge and Marley... well, just Scrooge, now? Hard to tell since Scrooge had never paid to paint out Marley’s name, despite him being dead these past 7 years. Christmas time is coming. You’ll need to hustle if you want to put together a proper holiday for your family while attending to all of life’s usual demands on your limited time and thin wallet. And maybe, just maybe, by spreading the Christmas Cheer, you will finally live to see a Christmas Miracle in the life of Ebenezer Scrooge.

What the Dickens is Christmas Themed roll and write based around A Christmas Carol. You play as Bob Cratchit trying to juggle work and family life while you spread a little Christmas Cheer in the week leading up to Christmas Day. Provide the best Christmas you can for your family while keeping your boss from getting angry, getting your work done, and perhaps spreading a bit of Christmas cheer to your community. Don’t forget the stress of stretching a counting clerk’s meager wages in the cozy industrial dystopia of Dickensian England, and you’ve got all the cheer and stress of Christmas packaged up in a simple, bookish roll-and-write.