About the game
The town needs power. The plant needs fixing. The reactor needs you to keep it alive.
Halcyon Energy is hiring.
Work with up to three colleagues. Weld pipes. Tape up live cables. Fix broken machines. Peel your friends off the far wall when a burst pipe sends them flying down the corridor. Work together, and you might survive.
Halcyon Energy offers a range of workplace hazards to spice up your work life. Bursting pipes will throw you down corridors. Fires will test your suit's thermal protection. Live cables will make you dance. Pressurized compartments will violently reposition your body. Spills will take your legs out from under you. These are routine hazards you are expected to deal with.
Halcyon Energy is contracted to sell power to the highest bidder. It is your job to make enough of it. Every shift lasts six minutes. Vote on a contract, set the reactor to Economy, Rated or Overdrive, and maintain the town's demand until the whistle blows.
The only time Halcyon cares about safety is when the inspector is on site. The inspector works for an independent regulator and will issue citations for safety breaches, including the puddle you are currently lying in. Halcyon Energy will deduct fines directly from your pay.
Working for Halcyon Energy entitles you to purchase upgrades from the employee shop: bots that mop, service and repair, better tools, and improvements for the plant. Upgrades are intended to make you and the plant operate more efficiently. Clock out rich, or take another contract and push your luck.
Reactor health never comes back. 95% of employment ends in a catastrophic event. SCRAM the reactor, or get a front row seat to a glorious nuclear meltdown. Once the klaxon sounds, you only have minutes. Will your contract be terminated, or will you fully melt down?
Features
- 1-4 player online co-op, or run the plant solo.
- Six-minute shifts. Vote on a contract, meet the town's power demand, beat the whistle.
- A plant where everything is connected. Burst pipes, live cables, pressurized rooms, spills, fires and blackouts that cascade into each other.
- Reactor health never comes back. Choose Economy, Rated or Overdrive, and SCRAM the reactor before the klaxon sounds.
- A walking safety inspector from an independent regulator who cites every hazard you leave behind, with fines straight out of your pay.
- Contracts with modifiers: control rods due for a change, logistics issues, an inspector on site.
- The employee shop. Spend your pay on bots that mop, service and repair, better tools and plant upgrades. Clock out rich or push your luck.
Trailer
Screenshots
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Logos and key art
Every clip and banner from the page above is also in the press kit .zip. Full-resolution screenshots, the library hero and the trailer MP4 are in the Google Drive press kit.
About Cojokero Games
Cojokero Games is a small indie outfit in Auckland, New Zealand, just trying to create fun experiences. The first game, CybArena, a four-player co-op arena shooter, came out on Steam in December 2024. Minutes to Meltdown is next.
Credits
Design, code, art and sound: Cojokero Games
Music: licensed for commercial use
More from the studio: cojokerogames.com
Streaming and video
You are welcome to stream, record and monetise videos of Minutes to Meltdown on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok or anywhere else. No need to ask first. The music is licensed for commercial use, so leave it in your videos and clips.
Contact
Press, creators and keys: [email protected]