Toca Life: Office is a freeform play experience that allows kids to tell stories, roleplay, and record videos. It's a virtual playset complete with characters, offices, cars, and more, giving you all the tools you need to play pretend in an office environment.

The Toca Life series is a sort of virtual sandbox that's stuffed full of interesting environments, characters, and more. Toca Life: Office focuses on the places where adults work, allowing players of all ages to act out stories about work, life as an adult, and more. With environments including a courthouse, an office, a bank, a house, a storage room, and a daycare center, kids can act out the routines of their parents, their heroes, or imaginary townspeople of all occupations and ages.

Toca Life: Office doesn't have any goals. Instead, its assortment of characters, props, and locations serves as the perfect vehicle for kids to write their own stories. Kids can play pretend with Toca Life: Office and create bank heists, office mishaps, and more. They can re-create their favorite stories, tell new ones, or act out scenes that occur in real life with their friends and family. Alternately, some kids will enjoy simply poking around the sets and re-arranging the items to create environments that they find appealing. 

Toca Life: Office can be a great educational tool, too. On its own, it's simply an enriched play environment, but with a bit of guidance from adults or older kids, it can reinforce lessons from school and help kids to understand complicated books. Having trouble with assigned reading in class? Go over the text with your kid and have them act out the scenes in Toca Life: Office. The plethora of props and characters and the theme of normal city life make it a great tool for helping your kid deconstruct books, word problems, and more.

All of the Toca Life games have fantastic attention to detail, and Toca Life: Office is no exception. There are lots of hidden chambers in each environment that are stuffed with secret goodies. Each room has an element of tension, whether it's the ninja gear stashed conspicuously near a vent in the bank vault or the secret hole in the wall of the jail cell. The game practically begs children to use these elements, costumes, and characters to tell amazing stories. 

One of the best features of Toca Life: Office and other Toca Life games is the ability to record gameplay. Kids can capture a movie of up to 2 minutes and even record their voices. These movies can be shared with adults, other kids, or even published on the internet. Many young creators have made a name for themselves by uploading riveting stories that they create in Toca Life. Even if your kids aren't interested in sharing their stories with the public, the fact that they can be inspired by the creations of other kids will help keep their play fresh, creative, and fun. It's a wonderful resource that makes the game feel like a whole lot more than a simple virtual sandbox.

Toca Life: Office is a game with no goals other than fun. There's no real right or wrong way to play. As long as you're having fun telling stories (or helping stories get told), you're doing great!

That said, there are a number of "hidden" elements in each scene that might not be obvious at first glance. Here's a comprehensive list of all of the secrets we know about in Toca Life: Office.

In the storage area, there's a fish-man behind a grated pipe on the right side of the scene. All of the boxes have superhero costumes, while the poster on the left that says "No Sloths" has a sloth costume hiding behind it. These unique outfits are perfect for telling high-powered stories about heroes saving the townsfolk from danger.

In the house area, there's a diamond behind the yellow painting on the wall between the kitchen and the bathroom. The other painting has an empty cubby behind it, which can be useful for telling some types of stories.

In the daycare center, there's a framed poster that says "Milk." Behind this poster is an unusual object that might be some sort of an alien plant thing - or might be a delicious frozen treat. It's up to you to decide! 

The courthouse is full of fun. There's a superhero costume in a locker in the room to the right, which is perfect for telling stories about the city prosecutor's unusual nighttime activities. Several judge wigs and outfits reside in the cupboards to the left and right of the judge's podium in the court chamber, allowing you to impanel the circuit en bank should you choose to do so. The jail cell has a poster that can be lifted to reveal a hole, letting you plot a dastardly escape to the electrical room next door. Outside of the room, there's a dark owl costume hidden in the dumpster and a miniature detective with his own tiny car. Will he thwart the prisoner's escape?

In the bank, the vault can be opened with the correct code. Alternately, open the panel above it and use the small electrical box to override the door! A briefcase full of tools is perfect for planning your own high-tech bank heists. 

In the office, the cabinets above the boss's desk on the right side of the map can be opened to reveal a passcode. Enter this passcode on the panels in front of the desk (red circle, yellow plus, yellow plus, blue triangle) and the desk and cabinets lift up, revealing a whole slew of crazy props. You'll find a cat in some sort of power armor, tools, books, and more. In the kitchen, there's a pumpkin in the back of one of the shelves with a hidden button that opens the back wall, revealing a giant pumpkin hero. What is he up to? It's up to you to decide!

Are you a Toca Life: Office expert? What secrets did we miss? What are your favorite creators? Let us know in the comments below!