BlueScreenCrisis

Given the release date, slapdash cover image and minimal blurb, my first thought was that this game was an April Fool's joke, or possibly malware. It does not appear to be malware.

This unusual work puts the player in the position of an IT support worker in a nebulous corporate setting. The strange tone and disconnected gameplay makes it seem more like a half-written training tool instead of something intended as entertainment. Its concise but bland language, heavy on bullet points, smacks of LLM-generated text.

As far as plot goes, the action is split into four phases. In the first phase, the PC is given a stack of problem reports for which prioritization must be assigned. Once this is done, the PC must investigate a particular scenario more closely. In the third phase, correction of the problem must be accomplished. The fourth phase seems intended to be a kind of team review with a supervisor.

From what I can tell, the required interactions are highly scripted and are basically spelled out in each section. Starting in phase 3, cause and effect start to break down, because in order to advance it seems necessary to take an action not called for based on other information. Phase 4 is quite strange, seeming to indicate both that the exercise went both poorly and well at the same time.

Other than idle curiosity, there doesn't seem to be much reason to interact with this work unless you want to be exposed to a smattering of terms and processes relevant to corporate IT support. Although this work meets the minimum functionality that would normally qualify it for at least two stars by my rubric, I still think most people are better off avoiding it entirely.