SYSADMIN Hell

Welcome to your new job. You’re already behind. Congratulations. You’re now the sole sysadmin for a growing company. Tickets are coming in. Users are panicking. Management wants answers. And the printer is angry. SYSADMIN HELL is a dark, sarcastic incremental management game about keeping a company alive while everything, and everyone, actively works against you. TICKETS NEVER STOP Handle a constant stream of increasingly ridiculous support tickets: - “My password doesn’t work” (it’s Caps Lock) - “Email is down” (it isn’t) - “The printer smells funny” (oh no) - “It worked yesterday” (it did not) AUTOMATE OR BURN OUT Clicking only gets you so far. Buy upgrades, scripts, and tools to automate the chaos: - Auto-responders that quietly chip away at tickets - Password reset scripts that mostly work - Macros, coffee machines, and self-service portals nobody reads Automation isn’t perfect; it fails, stalls, and sometimes makes things worse. Just like real IT. THE DAY GETS WORSE IN REAL TIME This isn’t a relaxed idle game. As the day progresses: - Backlogs trigger chaos spikes - Critical tickets make future tickets harder - Management emails escalate from “concerned” to “furious” A STORY TOLD THROUGH INCIDENTS The story unfolds through: - Strange one-off “shadow tickets” - Escalating emails from unnamed departments - Subtle changes in tone as the company grows Something is wrong here. And it’s not just the users. A DESKTOP FROM A BETTER, WORSE TIME Experience it all through a nostalgic Win98-inspired desktop: - Windowed apps - Grey panels - Ugly buttons - Fonts that should have stayed dead It looks familiar. That’s part of the problem.