Set against a backdrop of 90s techno-optimism, FACEMINER is an experimental, narrative-driven management sim that tasks the player with building a planetary scale biometric processing empire from scratch. All from within a suite of vintage software.

WORKLOAD
Manage data-streams, software upgrades, and hardware extensions as you rapidly expand your plant’s infrastructure. Ensure profits remain high and avoid bankruptcy (or worse) as you navigate oppressive electricity bills, high-maintenance cooling systems, and crooked politically-enforced carbon offsetting schemes.
CORPORATE CULTURE
Mining alone is no fun! Learn more about your fellow miners and keep up to date with the office gossip through internal email. Sift through messages to unravel the mysteries – and ultimate plans – of the shadowy creators of the FACEMINER software suite.GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES
Climb the corporate ladder and gradually rise through the ranks as you are promoted from manual data-filtering rookie through to the ultimate harvesting automator as you classify and sell facial data at ever-increasing speeds. The world of data brokering is ruthless, and poor prioritisation can lead to costly mistakes down the line. Do you have what it takes to climb the ranks and become the ultimate FACEMINER?Remember: Every Face Has Value.
FACEMINER is now 1.1.0! Whats new?
[h2]Achievements
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By popular demand, FACEMINER now has 56 achievements to unlock. Many challenges, secrets, and absurdities await those who seek them out.
[h2]Playable on Steam Deck
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FACEMINER is now officially playable on Steam Deck! More work to do here (mostly on the font size front) to get the Steam Deck experience at parity with the desktop one, but this is a robust first step towards getting that green fully verified tick.
[h2]More bugfixes
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1.1.0 makes significant strides in terms of session stability, particularly for durational (endless) games. The bug some users were facing where some sessions would use artificially low in-game resources, only to show the full usage again on reload, is now squashed for good. Behind the scenes, weve made changes to some in-game calculations which will generally make things easier to expand, rebalance and update in future.
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Thank you everyone: it continues to be a pleasure to work on this.
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
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