A small act of disobedience.

Some things
are worth
keeping.

A point-and-click adventure about memory,
office life, and thinking for yourself.

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Status: Episodes 1–2 local review builds · In development

A warm office full of green partitions, paper files, old computer monitors and late light. — 01 / WORK BAYEpisode 1 · Room artwork

Please follow procedure.

Your job is to close it.
You want to know why.

You are Employee 041. You review records.
You follow procedure.

Then something in a routine file feels familiar.

The System would like you to finish your work.
You would like another look.

An ordinary shift becomes a small mystery about the things that make a life your own, a river border nobody crosses, and a company that runs half the world.

LOOK / TALK / TAKE / USE

Old-school adventure.
Room for your own words.

Look around. Read the small print.
There’s usually a person behind the procedure.

Actual Episode 1 opening: Employee 041 in Work Bay above the Look, Talk, Use and Take controls, inventory, System and transcript panels. — Episode 1 opening · Actual local review-build capture

01 / NOTICE

It pays to pay attention.

Inspect objects. Read a notice. Take another look at something ordinary. The details are there for a reason.

Clues come from exploring, not guessing a magic sentence.

Where can I play?

Not just employee numbers.

People worth
listening to.

Some follow the rules.
Some know where the footnotes are.

Employee 041

Records

Good at following procedure.
Beginning to ask why.

Todd

Disk custodian

Would very much like this
not to be his fault.

Ruth

Records coordinator

Knows the rules.
Including the small print.

Pell

Human reviewer

Approves a great many things.
May need to read one.

Marit

Employee 040

Looking forward to letting
someone else handle everything.

Runtime character artwork from the local review builds.

01–04 / THE SYSTEM

A voice for every procedure.

The institutional narrator speaks in calm summaries. Pay attention to what the summary leaves out.

It starts with one record.

From one record
to a choice of your own.

The Copy

A routine report. An unusual source. A reason to look closer.

Playable review build
Complete authored route

The Exception

A colleague needs you to read the small print.

Playable review build
Authored continuation

From the other side of the desk.

Making caveOS.

An independent adventure by Patrick Neubauer.
Built around authored puzzles, people with limited knowledge,
and the difference between following a rule and understanding it.

FOR THE TECHNICALLY CURIOUS

Who actually decides what happens?

Inside the React scenes, Python rules, bounded conversation graphs and SQLite save system. Follow a turn from player input to a committed result.

Go behind the scenes

Why conversation belongs here

People have reasons for saying no. Discovering those reasons, finding evidence and explaining your approach can make conversation part of solving a puzzle. Optional live replies add flexibility; game rules decide what can change.

A story written to be discovered

The rooms, clues, major story beats and endings are authored. The narrator is authored too. The mystery does not change its answer because a model invents another one.

END OF SUMMARY.

Leave room for
unfinished things.

Perhaps take another look

Some things
are worth
keeping.

Your job is to close it.
You want to know why.