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Hacker fantasies. Phosphor-green and paranoid.

CATHODE RAY
GAMES

Indie studio. Four games in the same universe - all about what happens when retro logic punches modern AI in the face. Terminal.exe is live now. Three more are loading.

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THE GAMES

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CHECKSUM

Humanity-Verification Arcade / Microgames

A captcha gauntlet with a grudge. PROCTOR, the verification AI, needs you to prove you're human - and it's no longer sure it wants you to pass. Phone exclusive: your finger is the character.

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FRAGGED

Isometric Dual-Stick Shooter / Arcade RPG

Two hyper-muscular brothers versus R.U.S.T., a robot bureaucracy strip-mining the galaxy for Boomite. Island battlefields over lava, ridiculously oversized guns, and an extraction timer that turns greed into panic. Android-first adrenaline.

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NOISE_FLOOR

Surveillance Roguelike / Deckbuilder

A surveillance-resistance roguelike. The system has decided someone is guilty. You have one operation to make it doubt itself before the kill order lands.

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SEGFAULT

Action Platformer

A clean, deterministic 8-bit hero versus a fluid, predictive AI. Your bullets travel in straight bounces. The enemy can't resolve them. That crash is your platform.

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Terminal.exe

Idle / Incremental

An idle hacking game. Watch the data climb. Watch the trace climb faster. Burn the drives before the FBI does and come back stronger.

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THE THESIS

Four games. One enemy.
Modern AI thinks it's untouchable.
We disagree.

Terminal.exe - beat the surveillance system that's hunting you.

NOISE_FLOOR - beat the classifier that's about to erase someone.

SEGFAULT - beat the predictor that can't read a straight line.

CHECKSUM - beat the verifier that decides what counts as human.

Old logic. New opponent. The machine doubts itself, you walk through the gap.