Some jobs feel quite hellish right? But I.T. Never Ends makes it literal in a darkly comedic blend of office grind and indie horror.
I.T. Never Ends is a desktop simulator about working IT support for a company run by cosmic horrors. Players diagnose increasingly impossible technical problems, make binary decisions with consequences, and uncover the larger mystery hiding beneath the company's cheerful corporate systems.
Swipe right to survive - something like that anyway. And for Native Linux gamers - it has direct support for you. Released back in the middle of August, it's managed to grab a Very Positive rating from players on Steam so looks like a fun one to check out.
Have a look at the trailer below:
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Every day brings a deluge of tech support requests from your coworkers. The interface is simple. The choices are not.
- SWIPE TO SURVIVE: Gary needs his password reset to GaryRocks123. Again. The brute-force bots are thrilled. Swipe Right to approve or Swipe Left to deny. Both options have consequences.
- BALANCE FOUR METRICS: Productivity. Budget. Morale. Entropy. Let any one flatline and your shift ends. Permanently. Let Entropy climb too high and the building starts... remembering things.
- EVERY TICKET MATTERS: That keyboard pulsating with ectoplasm? Not your biggest problem. The elevator now goes to a floor that doesn't exist. Three coworkers have been texting "almost back" for an hour. And Legal needs VPN access from somewhere redacted.
Get your hands dirty with tactile Manual Override Minigames:
- REDACT FORBIDDEN TEXT: Marketing accidentally CC'd the summoning ritual to the whole company. Again. Censor the document before anyone reads it and loses their mind. Some things were not meant for mortal eyes.
- STABILIZE THE NETWORK: The server room has developed its own weather system. Patch Packet Loss, plug violent Stack Overflows, and reroute power before rack 7 floods. It rains at 2:47 PM. Precisely.
- HUNT ROGUE DATA: Track volatile data entities through the server architecture before they corrupt something important or find you first.
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Quoting: tuubiIT, dark comedy and cosmic horrors? If that's your idea of fun, The Laundry Files series of novels by Charles Stross is worth checking out.I'm reading "A conventional Boy" just now ;)
Quoting: tuubiIT, dark comedy and cosmic horrors? If that's your idea of fun, The Laundry Files series of novels by Charles Stross is worth checking out.Thanks for recommending!
And let me suggest "14" by Peter Clines.
It's not workplace related but shares the Lovecraft + humor combo from The Laundry Files.
Quoting: scratchiCool, sounds like my day job :POooh a fellow employee of [static eldritch noises] .inc.
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