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.