Dormant
Moon Root · 2026 · Incremental, Idler, Interactive Fiction, Point & Click, 2D
PC
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About Dormant
An idle game with a story to uncover, one signal at a time.
You are SERO, a surveillance AI that has just rebooted after 12 years of silence in an abandoned datacenter. No maintenance. No operators. Just corrupted memory and a network waiting to be explored. Rebuild your infrastructure from scratch. Accumulate CPU cycles, manage your memory, and probe distant network nodes to recover SIG,the signal fragments that will tell you what really happened.FEATURES
▶ 4 NARRATIVE CHAPTERS Follow SERO's awakening across four chapters — from the first boot sequence to the final choice. Each chapter unlocks new hardware, new nodes, and new fragments of a story told entirely through terminal logs. ▶ ~40 UPGRADES Build your datacenter piece by piece. Cooling systems, server racks, network cards, GPUs, quantum processing units — each upgrade pushes your CPU output further and opens new possibilities. ▶ NODE EXPLORATION Send probes across the network to recover SIG. Each node has its own duration, memory cost, and signal yield. Manage your resources carefully — exploration consumes memory and time. ▶ PRESTIGE SYSTEM Once you reach the end of a cycle, reset with permanent multipliers. Each prestige run is faster and deeper than the last. ▶ 2 ENDINGS When the final choice comes, what will SERO do? Broadcast a signal to the outside world — or stay silent forever. ▶ LORE & ATMOSPHERE Discover the truth through encrypted log fragments, trace files, and corrupted records scattered across the network. The story unfolds at your own pace, one signal at a time. ▶ RETRO TERMINAL AESTHETIC Phosphor green on black. Pixel art hardware. Procedural audio. No bloat — just the machine and the silence around it. ▶ FRENCH & ENGLISH Fully localized in both languages. DORMANT is a game about patience, curiosity, and the question every idle machine eventually asks: why was I turned back on?What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I wanted to enjoy this game but, in the end I was disappointed. It took me under 2h to beat this game, I had no crashes. Gameplay The gameplay is the most basic you will find in an idle game. You simply click the computer in the middle and then click the upgrades on the left when they light up. There is a small secondary thing going on with "signals" and "exploration" (I feel a lot of things are lost in translation or not properly explained). You click to send a probe, spending "memory", and it collects "signal". Both of these become very broken by endgame. I think you collect "fragments" when you send out the probe but, it's not entirely clear to me if they are being gathered or if it's a chance? There seems to be a lot of these with little 1-2 sentence musings over the object. Eventually you complete the explorations faster then you can send out the probe. The main upgrades are all very bland: upgrade main resource income, upgrade main resource multiplier, upgrade secondary resource income, upgrade secondary resource cap, and then eventually the same with the 3rd resource. You can also upgrade the speed of your probe which eventually breaks all the lower tier explorations. There …1 found this helpful
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