Publish or Perish is a game that simulates working in academia. In order to keep your job, you must publish scientific work. Reviewers are here to get you and all you can do is try to survive. Can you publish enough papers to enjoy tenure? (Contains practical advice for academics)
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May 21, 2024
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About This Game

Publish or perish is a minimalist survival game with roguelite elements. It is themed in an academic setting where in order to stay in academia you will have to publish as many papers as you can within a time limit. Evade and defeat reviewers, employ nefarious schemes to increase you metrics quicker, unlock new academics. Can you make it to tenure?

  • Choose between eight weapons and nine academics, and test your scientific skills in the office, the lab or at a conference talk.
  • Choose new weapons, boosts and other cards whenever your productivity metric increases.

The weapons, boosts and other cards that you will use in the game are inspired by real world practices at Universities all around the world. Some of these practices help science progress, whereas some are detrimental to it.

  • Supports mouse and keyboard, and controller.

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macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64bit
    • Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM MB RAM
    • Graphics: DX11, DX12 capable
    • Storage: 600 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • Processor: x64 architecture
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DX11, DX12 capable
    • Storage: 600 MB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • Processor: x64 architecture
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DX11, DX12 capable
    • Storage: 600 MB available space

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