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.