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Department of Collections
A tasked based fully procedural online co-op sci-fi horror game that can be played both casually or more hardcore. Descend further into the facility using the elevator to discover truths about the facility while avoiding hazards and threats and completing tasks for the Department.

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Features
Single-player
Online Co-op
Family Sharing
Steam is learning about this game 
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔
Content
Includes Interactive Elements

In-game chat, Online interactivity

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“The game is under active development and we have not yet reached our full feature list and polish list. We are working on core functions, but still want to allow a certain level of testing as we go along. While we will always strive to have a fully functional, playable, performant, and fun game, we are not yet ready to call it feature complete. We want community input along the way to help make this a more enjoyable game not only for us, but also for you.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect early testing to only last a year at maximum (Until around Fall 2027).”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We plan on adding story elements, more varied environments, quality of life features, social features like character customization. Potentially more monsters.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The core loop is established. Everything should be functional and ideally with very little bugs. ”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“There are no plans on changing the price between Early Access and the fully released game.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We very much want to not only enjoy this game ourselves, but we also want the community to enjoy the game. We will always be on the look out for new suggestions, bug reports, and grand ideas from the community in our discord and Steam community forums.

Ideas, bugs and concerns can be reported in any of those locations or emailed to social@crackedterminalstudio.com if that is preferred.

We plan on having localized testing where we, the developers, watch a small group of people explore and play the game while taking notes from observed behaviors and also feedback given directly by the testers. If you are interested in being part of this small testing group, please email us at social@crackedterminalstudio.com to express interest.

We wholly plan on listening to community feedback about features we implement and the state of the game overall to help adjust our plans. Our only unchangeable goal is to make the game fun. Everything else is up for change in the pursuit of a fun game.”
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Planned Release Date: Oct 1, 2026

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About This Game

Message from DOC

You are an employee of the Department of Collections. You are required to complete tasks in order to progress. Along the way you will find scraps and unique items to help you on your mission, very little will be provided to you by DOC. Everything must be earned and we expect compliance. You'll find puzzles along the way you must solve. Diving further will result in new and more difficult challenges, but you must meet the assigned tasks or risk termination. You enter with your team and not all of you are guaranteed to leave. And remember, you are not alone.

DOC appreciates your efforts and expects success.

Summary Feature List

  • Up to four player coop

  • Proximity voice chat and intercom system

  • Fully procedural level generation

  • Smart AI Director to ease frustrations and tune engagement

  • Fight back and outplay the distinct AI

  • Explore the seemingly infinite depths of the facility

  • Save/Load system

Build your team

Form a team of up to four total people or play solo. The team shares an increasing and evolving task list as the missions progress.

Complete your task list

Complete your randomly generated and ever growing task list to progress to the next floor. DOC expects full completion before allowing you to progress.

Communication is key

Utilize the proximity voice chat and a wide range of emotes. Utilize the intercom system to keep everyone in the mission in sync no matter where they are.

Explore new environments

The missions you explore are unique and vast. Room layouts, connections, contents, and scrap are all procedurally generated using an advanced algorithm to make the space believable and more compact. These can be built reliably using seeds.

Balance your power usage

Power not only provides you with light, but it is also your currency. Scrap items you find to gain power, and spend your power to gain personal or team upgrades. 

Upgrade your base and experience

An upgrade system exists that allows you to dynamically change how any level is played. Radar, item value, inventory capacity, storage capacity and more can be upgraded via choices made in each level.

You are not alone

An advanced AI Director will navigate the threat-level AI around your location, while also offering a break to those frequented by the AI. Fear is the goal, not frustration. Find hiding spots around your environment and avoid making too much noise. Most AI have unique counters to help prevent death.

You are not the only one with good ears

If you hear something make noise, the AI can most likely hear it too. Be careful about making too much noise. Crouch or walk, but run at your own risk. You are NOT the fastest entity present.

Fight back

The items you find can be used to negate the AI threat. But be mindful: You will not be able to kill any of the AI. They are always a threat.

Save your progress

Every play through can be saved and reloaded for a cost. Find the floppy discs in each level to save your progress or scrap them for power.

Async Mission Loading

The experience is continuous once you have entered the main base. Each mission is loaded asynchronously to offer a fluid experience.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 CPU @ 3.00 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1060
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
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