Panic is a frantic single-screen arcade game about keeping a failing scheduler alive.

Jobs flood a six-slot terminal queue, each with a deadline. Click flags, hit key prompts, mash counters, hold charge pads, drag alignments, and trace call stacks before they expire.

Clean clears earn cycles, build combo, and fill COMMIT. Hit 100 and a SYNC PULSE wipes the board, boosts your multiplier, and drops LOAD. Miss too much and LOAD hits 100: core dump.

Fast triage. Tight controls. Instant restarts. The better you play, the harder it pushes back.

Features

  • Six quick job types: click, keypress, mash, hold, drag, sequence
  • Combo, multiplier, COMMIT, and SYNC scoring
  • CRT terminal style with particles, shake, and synth audio
  • Instant reboot for one-more-run attempts

Controls

  • Mouse: click, hold, mash, drag, sequence
  • Keyboard: shown key prompts
  • Enter, Space, or click: boot / reboot
Updated 3 days ago
Published 4 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Authormeapps
GenrePuzzle
TagsArcade, Casual, Cute, Relaxing
ContentNo generative AI was used

Development log

Comments

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I like it!  add more job types?
The sequence one is annoying to guess, I'd rather have to connect in order or something more deterministic, but it's also Ok as it is - makes you prioritize haha

Thank you for the feedback. I’m on it and will be adding more content soon.