About the game
Deep in a dead machine, one process is still running. It's you.
SIGABRT is a roguelike autobattler where you don't play cards. You write the code that fights for you. Assemble a program line by line, send it into battle, and rewrite it on the fly as you descend a fallen operating system toward its silent core.
Program your fighter
Your "deck" is a living program. Stack instructions into a loop, watch it execute against the enemy each turn, and re-code it mid-fight to counter what's coming. Every battle is a small puzzle you solve by editing yourself.
The bugs write back
Your enemies aren't static targets. They rewrite their own code every turn, adapting and escalating as the fight goes on. Beat one and claim its best instruction for your own program.
Descend a dying world
From the scratch space of /tmp, down through the crowded City of /proc, the frozen Galleries of /dev, the severed Gate of /net, to the endless Archive of /var. Every directory is a haunted region of a machine that stopped running long ago. Reach /kernel, and the one loop that never returned.
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Inside the machine
At a glance
What's in the box
- Roguelike autobattler where you write code instead of drawing cards
- Self-editing enemies that adapt every turn
- A dead operating system to descend, biome by biome
- 4 unlockable characters, each a different program
- Dozens of instructions, relics, and encounters
- An endless boss-rush endgame called the Net
- Atmospheric, story-in-fragments world
- Approachable, with no coding knowledge needed
Wishlist SIGABRT and descend when the machine boots.
SIGABRT is quietly about a machine that was loved, and a goodbye that never finished compiling.
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