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.
