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Build the department
Hire, train, promote, and cut a procedural roster under a real budget. Every salary is a decision, and every survivor becomes part of the story.
The succession contest is underway
Downer Management
Eleven bosses. One chair.
Build a Boss. Build a department. Fight through Gideon Dunne-Wright's corporate succession bloodsport and become the last name left on the org chart.
Available now · Singleplayer · Weekend Vigilante included
11Entrants
10Official forms
1Corporate empire
The contest
Gideon is giving away the company.
The mythical CEO has summoned ten bosses to compete for his empire. You received the final legitimate opening. Your rival broke in without one and was rewarded for showing initiative.
Now every department is a fiefdom, every building is an elimination round, and every promotion brings you closer to Gideon's chair. This is not a paperwork mystery. It is a boss fight with an org chart.
Current footage · July 2026
See the company in motion.
Boss creation, formation combat, rival fights, office systems, and the things management does after hours.
The mastery loop
Manage people. Script the line. Live with the result.
Downer Management is a boss-led roster autobattler. The meaningful decisions happen before and around the fight.
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Script the formation
Top, middle, and bottom are not passive rows. Each position selects the skill an employee will execute when the line goes live.
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Manage the consequences
Commit the payroll, spend limited Authority to correct the fight, and trust the department you built to survive without being puppeted.
Full mobilization authorizedThe roster payoff
Boss battles use everybody.
Ordinary floors are 3v3. Real department bosses escalate to 6v6: three active employees, three reserves, and formal Line Change windows after rounds two and four.
The rival moves first. You may answer with one free swap or hold the line. The roster you kept alive becomes the weapon.
Weekend Vigilante
The building closes. Your Boss does not.
Build a masked after-hours identity, assemble a vigilante loadout, hire one procedural sidekick, and take on Sunday missions in a theatrical broadcast mode.
The rewards feed your Boss, while the Expense Account keeps masks, portrait gear, nightlife, and office expression out of the department payroll.
After close · authorization deniedExecutive expression
Run the office like it belongs to you.
Decorate the hub, build the Boss portrait, design a business card, and write the company theme without spending payroll money.
Corporate archive
The company keeps a file on everybody.
The archive is opening. Gideon, the claimants, the departments, and the impossible corporation all have more to disclose.
Gideon Dunne-Wright
Mythic owner of the corporation. He is stepping down, but only after the company identifies a boss ruthless enough to inherit it.
The Ten Forms
Ten official entrants were summoned into the succession contest. Each received a sealed form, a department, and permission to make a problem of themselves.
The Unauthorized Entrant
Your rival did not receive a form. They entered anyway. The company admired the initiative and made the trespass official after the fact.
Current build
Filed as evidence.
Your form has been accepted
Take the last legitimate seat.
Downer Management is available now on Steam.