P(Doom): AI Safety Strategy Game

Run an underfunded AI safety lab and hold off catastrophe for as long as you can.

Download & Play

Latest version: v0.11.0 -- Windows build:

• Windows -- download and run. No installer.

Linux and macOS builds are not published yet. Until they are, run from source with Godot 4.5.1 (see For Developers).

About the Game

You run an underfunded AI safety lab while better-resourced competitors race toward AGI. There is no win screen -- alignment is not a thing you finish. What you can do is buy time. Make strategic decisions about hiring, research priorities, and resource allocation, and hold the line for as many turns as you can before doom or the competition ends the run. Your score is the number of turns survived.

Gameplay:

• Hire individual researchers from a candidate pool (Safety, Capabilities, Interpretability, Alignment)
• Manage teams of up to 8 researchers per manager
• Balance researcher traits (team_player, media_savvy, leak_prone) for optimal productivity
• Handle burnout, poaching events, and doom from reckless research
• Respond to rival lab actions and random events
• Buy time against rising P(Doom): there is no victory condition, only how long you last
• Every run ends in defeat; the score is turns survived, and the end screen attributes honestly what killed you
• Deterministic seeds -- a given seed plays identically for everyone, so scores are comparable

Need Help?

• BOOK How to Play - Game mechanics and strategy
• HELP Discussions - Questions and community
• GLOBAL Website - Guides, community, and updates
• MAP Roadmap - Where the game is headed (milestones + quarterly pins)
• Report a Bug -- Press N in-game (or use the on-screen Report Bug button), or open an issue

Community & Contributing

Found a bug? Have a suggestion? Press N in-game to open the bug reporter, or visit our GitHub Issues.

Contributor Recognition Program

We immortalize our contributors in the game! Report bugs, suggest features, or help with playtesting, and your cat can become an Office Cat in P(Doom).

• See your cat in the game with 5 doom-level variants
• Get listed in the credits with your contributions
• Help shape the game and make it better for everyone

Learn more: Contributor Rewards Program

For Developers

Want to contribute or build from source?

• Contributing - Get started
• Architecture - Codebase overview
• Full Changelog - Version history

Built with Godot 4.5.1 | Open Source (MIT License)

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Made with coffee and existential dread | Contributor Rewards