Tech Debt - The Public Beta
Tech Debt: Rogue-lite, Base Building, Tower Defense
Welcome to your new job managing the server infrastructure for a new tech startup.
Keep the server infrastructure up and running as traffic grows while managing costs to stay within your budget.
If you run out of money or you can't keep the servers up, then your run is over.

Build your server infrastructure:
Build out a variety of server infrastructure based on real-world technologies to handle the load, speed up the development process, and protect you from attacks.
Infrastructure Includes:
- Application Servers
- Load Balancers
- Binary Storage
- Content Delivery Networks(CDN)
- Value Key Stores
- Queues
- Worker Servers
- Data Lakes
- Proxies
- Firewalls
- Metrics/Telemetry Tools
- Automated Build Pipelines
- Email Services
- Server Health Alerts
And much more!

Research new technologies:
Research 30+ unlockable technologies, all based on real-world cloud infrastructure
Debug Bugs before they take down your servers:
Pay down your Tech Debt before bugs show up that cause major issues. Assign your team to debug the bugs.
Some bugs are more difficult than others.

Fend off a variety of cyber Attacks:
Fend off enemy attacks based on real-world cyberattacks like DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection attacks.
Fortify your platform before a cyberattack takes you down.


Level Up Your Team:
Level up your team so they can code and deploy new software versions to unlock bonuses of increasing rarity.
Choose from over 40 unique traits to assign to your team members.
Product Road Map:
Do you prioritize focusing on the marketing features that bring in income, or do you harden your infrastructure against cyber attacks?
Choose from over 20 unlockable missions, each with randomized modifiers and rewards for maximum replicability. Each mission has a "Stakeholder" who can unlock affinity bonuses the more missions you complete for them.
Level up outside of the game and gain helpful perks!
Earn "Vested Shares" to unlock meta progression rewards that change every run.
Unlock challenges to unlock new technologies, server infrastructure, missions, rewards, and team member traits.
| Updated | 4 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | Schematical |
| Genre | Strategy, Simulation |
| Made with | Unity |
| Tags | 2D, 8-Bit, City Builder, colony, Pixel Art, Retro, Roguelite, Tower Defense |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
Development log
- v0.0.33 - If you had trouble understanding this game before, hopefully you wont...44 days ago
- Technology and Infrastructure Descriptions49 days ago
- 0.0.31 - Added back in the tutorial50 days ago
- Tech Debt The Video Game54 days ago
- Big Update - New Level Types, Randomized Modifiers and Rewards67 days ago
- Q.O.L. - 0.0.14 & 0.0.1583 days ago
- Legendary items and level ups are now in Tech Debt The Video Game92 days ago
- My video game has bugs that crawl around the screen and attack your servers -...98 days ago








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