Project Burnout
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Press-kit version: 2026-09-21
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Developer: Fjord Games
Based in: Hamburg, Germany
Platform: PC
Release: To be announced
Website: https://projectburnout.fjordgames.com/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2191780/

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.

Features
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- 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

Screenshots
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1. Plan and assign the week — Project Burnout planning board with five employee rows, scheduled tasks, sickness and leave, and a project work panel
2. Shape your management style — Project Burnout Skills screen with twelve management upgrades, skill levels and available stars
3. Make a character decision — Jordan requests a new workstation, with a choice between increased stress and spending budget
4. Read the game review — Clandestine Warrior 3 earns a 95 percent game rating, with five discipline scores and a written review
5. Celebrate the results — Project Burnout victory screen with three completed campaign goals and final week, budget and reputation statistics
6. Hire specialist freelancers — Freelancer cards for development, admin and art specialists with weekly rates and hiring buttons
7. Check on your team — Team Status screen with five employee portraits, stress bars, sickness and a newly gained trait
8. Balance the week — Weekly Summary with completed project, reputation and budget totals and itemized payouts, salaries and decision costs
9. Choose the next studio — Campaign map with Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki, and the selected Berlin studio goals

Gameplay trailer — English
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Runtime: 00:41
Picture: 1920 x 1080, 30 FPS
English gameplay and narration, with English subtitles and a demo invitation.
Ending: Play the demo
Captions/subtitles: English WebVTT
Transcript: Included as plain text

Usage and credit: Project Burnout © Fjord Games. Credit Fjord Games / Project Burnout.


Gameplay trailer — German
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Runtime: 00:41
Picture: 1920 x 1080, 30 FPS
German gameplay with English narration, German subtitles and a German demo invitation.
Ending: Play the demo
Captions/subtitles: German WebVTT
Transcript: Included as plain text

Usage and credit: Project Burnout © Fjord Games. Credit Fjord Games / Project Burnout.

Press contact: contact@fjordgames.com
