Project Burnout
The five-person Project Burnout fixer crew in front of a wall of interconnected production tasks

Turn-based management strategy

Project Burnout

A turn-based management strategy game about leading a traveling fixer crew hired to rescue game studios in crisis. Plan the week, split dependent tasks across five disciplines, beat deadlines, and protect your crew from burnout.

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Gameplay Trailers

English and German gameplay, with a demo invitation at the end.

English · Gameplay trailer

English gameplay and narration, with English subtitles and a demo invitation.

Deutsch · Gameplay trailer

German gameplay with English narration, German subtitles and a German demo invitation.

About the game

Plan the week before the week hits back.

When a game studio is in trouble, your crew gets the call. Project Burnout is a turn-based management strategy game about a traveling fixer crew. Studios own the games. You arrive when their production plan is already slipping, take responsibility for the week, and help the team get work moving again.

  • Rescue multiple game studios in cities around the globe
  • Grow from a three-person crew to five specialists across escalating engagements
  • Rebuild a Monday-to-Friday calendar by placing, splitting, and moving dependent tasks
  • Match development, design, QA, admin, and art work to trained specialists, or pay in speed and stress
  • Balance project offers, income, payroll, reputation, deadlines, overtime, and human limits
  • Handle employee decisions, traits, stress, sickness, and absence as the weeks stack up

From the game

Project Burnout planning board with five employee rows, scheduled tasks, sickness and leave, and a project work panel
Plan and assign the week
Project Burnout Skills screen with twelve management upgrades, skill levels and available stars
Shape your management style
Jordan requests a new workstation, with a choice between increased stress and spending budget
Make a character decision
Clandestine Warrior 3 earns a 95 percent game rating, with five discipline scores and a written review
Read the game review
Project Burnout victory screen with three completed campaign goals and final week, budget and reputation statistics
Celebrate the results
Freelancer cards for development, admin and art specialists with weekly rates and hiring buttons
Hire specialist freelancers
Team Status screen with five employee portraits, stress bars, sickness and a newly gained trait
Check on your team
Weekly Summary with completed project, reputation and budget totals and itemized payouts, salaries and decision costs
Balance the week
Campaign map with Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki, and the selected Berlin studio goals
Choose the next studio
Jamie and Lily play a couch co-op game while Morgan cheers, Jordan and Riley face each other across a foosball table, and Doc Kindle watches from the edge of an after-hours studio lounge
The fixer crew after hours

PC · To be announced

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