50 Fun Facts About Lobotomy Corporation

Which collaborative fiction website about containing anomalies inspired the creators of Lobotomy Corporation?

SCP Foundation was an obsession of studio head Kim Jihoon, who wanted to play a game about containing its monsters and could not find one. He started building his own with friends from a college club.

What energy source, named after a real brain chemical, does Lobotomy Corporation harvest from its Abnormalities?

Enkephalin is drawn from Abnormalities whenever they feel satisfied and is stored as a green liquid. The company also doses its own employees with it to keep their stress down.

Which Lobotomy Corporation monster forms when three guardians of the Black Forest breach together and merge into one?

Apocalypse Bird is immune to all damage, so it can only be beaten by destroying the eggs it scatters through the facility. The merger cannot happen before Day 21.

Which Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation kills any employee who is sent to work with it twice in a row?

Happy Teddy Bear hugs a repeat visitor so tightly that they choke, because it was abandoned by the child who owned it and will not let anyone go again. Alternating employees keeps everyone alive.

Plague Doctor in Lobotomy Corporation transforms into which angelic Abnormality after blessing twelve employees?

WhiteNight turns the twelve blessed employees into Apostles that attack their former colleagues. The change is permanent: it carries over into every later run of the game.

In Lobotomy Corporation, Warm-Hearted Woodsman and Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom come from which classic story?

The Wizard of Oz ends badly in this telling: the Tin Woodsman is handed a worthless lead heart, and the Scarecrow is left still hunting for the minds of clever people.

In Lobotomy Corporation, which risk level is reserved for the most dangerous Abnormalities, such as Blue Star?

ALEPH Abnormalities can cause a game over on their own if they are not suppressed in time. Ending a day with one still loose wipes out every LOB Point earned.

Which small white Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation turns red and bites for huge damage if an agent dares to hit it?

Punishing Bird normally pecks for almost no damage and flies home by itself, so the safest answer to its breach is to leave it alone. Strike it and its bite deals 800 to 1,200 damage.

Which Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation wears the skin of an employee it has killed as a disguise?

Nothing There takes the skin of anyone who dies in its cell and keeps the look until the next employee walks in. Underneath it is a jumble of human parts with four eyes and a clawed arm on its head.

Which South Korean indie studio developed and published the monster-management game Lobotomy Corporation?

Project Moon began as four friends from a college club and grew to ten people before release. The game went on to sell more than a million copies.

Which deck-building game, released for Windows and Xbox One, is the direct sequel to Lobotomy Corporation?

Library of Ruina swapped monster management for card battles when it arrived in August 2021. A third instalment, the dungeon role-playing game Limbus Company, followed in 2023.

Which blue-haired artificial intelligence advises the manager and oversees every Sephirah in Lobotomy Corporation?

Angela watches the whole facility and raises the alarm when an Abnormality breaches or an employee dies. Her eyes are rarely seen open, except when she is angry.

Which cheerful Sephirah heads the Control Team and greets the manager on Day 1 of Lobotomy Corporation?

Malkuth is the first Sephirah a player meets, and she wears an armband marked with her initial. She is enthusiastic, impatient and always set on the best results.

Dawn, Noon, Dusk and Midnight are the four tiers of which roaming enemy waves in Lobotomy Corporation?

Ordeals cannot be contained the way Abnormalities can, so a peaceful day becomes impossible once they start on Day 6. Each wave is colour-coded too, with themes that run from a carnival to ancient machines.

The Sephirot department heads in Lobotomy Corporation are named after the Tree of Life in which mystical tradition?

Kabbalah arranges its spheres into a tree, and the facility copies that layout upside down. On the final day the whole building flips over to set the tree upright.

ZAYIN, TETH and WAW, three risk levels in Lobotomy Corporation, are named after letters of which alphabet?

Hebrew letters name all five ranks. The letter behind the top rank stands for a master or lord, while Teth represents both good and evil.

In Lobotomy Corporation, which damage type takes a percentage of an employee's maximum health, not a fixed amount?

Pale damage is feared because toughness offers no protection: it always takes a share of the victim's maximum HP. Red hurts health, White hurts sanity and Black hurts both.

Which magical girl in Lobotomy Corporation heals workers with a blown kiss but turns villain when peace lasts too long?

The Queen of Hatred exists to fight evil, so when no villains are left she becomes one herself. Her counter drops whenever fewer than three employees have died before a Qliphoth Meltdown.

Fortitude, Prudence and Temperance are three of the four agent stats in Lobotomy Corporation; what is the fourth?

Justice sets how quickly an agent attacks and moves through the facility. Together the four stats match the classical cardinal virtues.

Agents in Lobotomy Corporation can be ordered to do Instinct, Insight, Repression or which fourth kind of work?

Attachment work trains the same stat it relies on, so agents who keep doing it grow in Temperance. Every Abnormality favours some kinds of work and punishes others.

In Lobotomy Corporation, which colour marks the enemy waves of worm-like creatures that swarm lone employees?

Amber waves have a food theme: each worm is weak alone, but a swarm wears down a lone employee with continuous damage. A loud digging noise announces their arrival.

Which mercenary squad led by Myo can a Lobotomy Corporation manager hire to sweep a department of threats?

Rabbit Team wear gas masks with long ears, and each department they clear costs a quarter of the energy collected that day. Every employee in the chosen area panics the moment they arrive.

Seven Abnormalities in Lobotomy Corporation were designed by backers of the game's campaign on which crowdfunding site?

Tumblbug donors' creations carry a D for Donation in their codes and appear in rounded extraction boxes. They can be switched off in the settings and are not needed for full completion.

In a Lobotomy Corporation Abnormality's code, F stands for Fairytale and O for Original, but what does T mean?

Trauma covers Abnormalities born from traumatic experiences, phobias or intense emotions, such as Bloodbath and Spider Bud. The letter meanings were revealed in the game's art book.

The E.G.O equipment extracted from Abnormalities in Lobotomy Corporation stands for 'Extermination of Geometrical' what?

Organ completes the name of gear that is really an Abnormality's essence compressed into a weapon or suit. A wearer whose mind is too weak risks being taken over by it.

Which rarely emotional Sephirah runs the Extraction Team in the lowest layer of Lobotomy Corporation?

Binah oversees the making of new Abnormalities and is the only one in the facility able to withstand watching it happen. Players usually reach her between Day 37 and Day 42.

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds, every Lobotomy Corporation manager's first Abnormality, takes what form?

A skull on a cross, bound together by a crown of thorns, is the shape of this harmless starter. A good work result on it restores some of the agent's sanity.

Which Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation heals and grows by eating the corpses of fallen employees?

Mountain of Smiling Bodies began as a pile of casualties that a Sephirah left uncleared until the corpses fused together. Once loose, it doubles its maximum health after consuming three of them.

Which backer-designed Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation is ranked at the highest risk level even while contained?

Melting Love blesses one agent with a slime heart, and that agent then infects co-workers until they dissolve into slime creatures. It began as waste from an experiment, hidden away by a fond employee.

Which backer-designed Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation looks like a small white pug puppy until it breaches?

Ppodae charms employees into doting on it, to the point that they hold lottery draws over who looks after it next. When it breaches it grows to about four times its size.

Which backer-designed Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation sits in its cell as a big floating pink cartoon heart?

Army in Black is filed under the lowest risk level and can even guard an employee, cutting the damage they take by a fifth. Once it breaches, its soldiers rank among the deadliest threats in the game.

Which Abnormality in Lobotomy Corporation will fire a wall-piercing bullet across the facility for a fee in energy?

Der Freischütz charges a tenth of the manager's current energy per shot and lets the manager aim it. After the seventh request, he starts choosing his own target.

Which childlike Lobotomy Corporation Abnormality hands workers a heart-shaped gift that can hatch a spider-like friend?

Laetitia hides her friends inside presents as a prank meant to cheer people up. If a gifted employee sets off to work with a different Abnormality, the present bursts and kills them.

In Lobotomy Corporation, which sea creatures dressed as fishermen tend the Opened Can of WellCheers vending machine?

Shrimp in grey overalls and yellow boots run the machine, which hands out healing sodas after work. A bad result puts the drinker to sleep while a wave floods the room.

Which Lobotomy Corporation Abnormality is a cheery cleaning robot that spins sickle arms down hallways when loose?

All-Around Helper goes by Little Helper until Observation Level 3. After each spinning charge it runs out of power for about ten seconds, which is the moment to strike.

Which Lobotomy Corporation Abnormality, discarded and left to rot, grew thorny stalks and went looking for a prince?

Snow White's Apple came to hate the princess after being thrown away with a single bite taken. When it breaches, it covers hallway floors in vines that slow and stab employees.

Big Bird in Lobotomy Corporation made the wick of its everlasting lantern out of what?

Its own feathers became the wick after someone asked what would happen if the monster came at night. Big Bird then decided that killing forest creatures itself would save them from the monster.

Judgement Bird in Lobotomy Corporation rigged which golden object so that it would always deliver a verdict?

A scale hangs from its neck, and after someone asked what would happen if it tipped neither way, the bird fixed it to lean to one side for ever. It hangs any employee its judgement kills.

The Singing Machine in Lobotomy Corporation, which turns employees into music, is what kind of industrial device?

A meat grinder lined with sawblades is its true form, and an employee it possesses will jump inside to be ground into a tune. Small pipes on its lid and back let the music out.

Yin and Yang in Lobotomy Corporation are the dark and light halves of what kind of object?

A pendant split in two is how the pair appear, and picking Yin makes Yang the only tool offered next. Employees nickname the dark half the Pendant of the Devil.

The strongbox Abnormality Schadenfreude in Lobotomy Corporation spoils an agent's work only under which condition?

While it is on screen, an agent's work yields only negative energy boxes and its counter ticks down every five seconds. The cure is simply to scroll the camera away.

Which backer-designed tool in Lobotomy Corporation, once fully charged, re-contains every escaped Abnormality at once?

Backward Clock needs four lights lit by agents winding its key, and only a level 5 employee gets its full effect. Despite the time-machine pitch, it never brings dead staff back.

In the story of Lobotomy Corporation, whose sacrifice made Cogito plentiful enough to create new Abnormalities?

Carmen became known as the Bucket, the source of the Cogito that is injected into humans to draw Abnormalities out of them. That makes her, in effect, the mother of every one in the facility.

Which upper layer of the Lobotomy Corporation facility holds the Control, Information, Training and Safety teams?

Asiyah is where every run begins, since the Control Team is the first department a manager opens. Below it lie the middle layer and then the deepest one, home of the Extraction and Record teams.

In Lobotomy Corporation, 'Abnormality' is a rough early translation of a Korean word built on which idea?

Fantasy, or illusion, is the root of the Korean name, with a suffix marking it as a physical being. The rough machine translation stuck and has been kept in every later game.

Despite its storybook name, The Little Prince in Lobotomy Corporation takes the form of which towering growth?

A giant mushroom in dark blue and purple is its shape, and it is listed as Giant Mushroom Chunk until fully observed. Its base looks like a cluster of heads with hollow eyes and mouths.

Which sleepy Sephirah, known for his love of coffee, heads the Welfare Team in Lobotomy Corporation?

Chesed works in the facility's middle layer and wears a suit in the style of the turn of the twentieth century, set off by a blue cravat. He only pretends to care for his employees.

Child of the Galaxy in Lobotomy Corporation gives every employee who works with him which token of friendship?

A pebble from the sobbing boy slowly heals its holder, but it comes with strings attached. If the holder goes off to work with another Abnormality, his counter drops and the holder is hurt.

The tool Abnormality Theresia in Lobotomy Corporation is an ornate, blood-stained example of which object?

A music box topped with a ballerina is its form, and its tune restores the sanity of everyone in the same department. An agent who keeps it playing for more than 30 seconds panics.

Crumbling Armor in Lobotomy Corporation is an aged, rusting suit in the style of which class of warrior?

Samurai armour with cherry blossoms painted on the chest, it carries a legend of owners who died in battle while the armour itself stayed undamaged. Agents who do Repression work on it leave with a flame-shaped gift.