A horror-themed strategy game where you run a research facility studying dangerous anomalies. Manage researchers who risk death, memetic contamination, or worse,  while uncovering the properties of reality-breaking entities. Balance scientific progress with survival as anomalies breach containment, researchers lose their minds, and reality itself begins to fracture.

The game is a real-time, pausable strategy management game. How to Play guides and Compendiums of properties can be found behind the in-game menu!

Recommended to play in fullscreen!

How to Play:

• Manage Researchers: Assign researchers to move, accept and research anomalies, contain breaches, craft protective Silver Bullets, recruit new staff, synthesize chemicals, or rest to recover sanity. Use left-click to select researchers or locations. Right-click to move. Left-click the 9-dial panel to issue other orders. Also works with a hotkey.

• Research Anomalies: Select 3-6 research types (costing, Budget, Chemicals, Computing, or time) to reveal each anomaly's three properties gradually. Some properties trigger dangerous effects during research.

• Manage Resources: Balance Budget (drains over time from general use and from wages), Chemicals, Computing, Reality Anchoring (prevents dimensional breaches), and Researcher Sanity.

Handle Dangers:

• Lethal properties can kill researchers instantly (unless protected by Silver Bullets)

• Memetic properties spread contamination between researchers

• Breaching anomalies must be contained before they escape

• Hyperreal properties reduce Reality Anchoring, risking catastrophic breaches

• Antiepistemic properties erase knowledge and perception
  

• Dormant entities risk your budget! They give boring results

• Strategic Decisions: Some anomalies are too dangerous to fully research. Once you've discovered two properties, you can "coredump" an anomaly to remove it safely, but you'll miss the completion reward. Balance risk and reward carefully.

How to Win:

• Wealth Victory: Reach 5,000 or more Budget to convince investors and secure expansion funding.

• Complete Understanding: Research and contain all available anomalies in the pool.

How to Lose:

• Budget Depletion: Your budget drops below zero, forcing facility closure.

• Operational Failure: All researchers are killed, causing containment protocols to fail and anomalies to escape.