Berucacy of Darkness

About the game

Bureaucracy of Darkness is an idle / incremental management game about building a cult not through brute force, but through organization, persuasion, hierarchy, and bureaucracy.

You don’t start with buildings.

You don’t start with followers.

You start alone, murmuring in the alley.

From there, you slowly construct an institution:

•convince people manually

•recruit your first cultists

•promote them through increasingly absurd ranks

•formalize everything into offices, paperwork, and permissions

•and eventually let the system run itself

Cultists are temporary.

The institution is permanent.

Core gameplay

•Manual persuasion

Click to generate Influence and bootstrap the cult from nothing.

•Recruitment & workforce growth

Recruit cultists, improve intake quality, and scale your lowest‑tier workforce.

•Hierarchy & promotion

Promote cultists through 10 tiers, each unlocking new resources and systems.

•Institutional buildings

Construct permanent offices that define how your cult operates:

•persuasion

•recruitment

•promotion

•authorization

•optimization

•Deep upgrade system

Every building contains multiple upgrade tracks, each with 100 levels divided into resource‑based decades and permanently locked by Seals.

•Prestige through Sacrifice

Reset the run to gain Sacrifice, which permanently upgrades your institution and lets you lock progress forever.

Progression & depth

Each upgrade track progresses through resource bands:

•Early levels use basic resources

•Later levels demand higher‑tier resources

•Every 10 levels must be sealed with Sacrifice

•Unsealed progress is lost when you Sacrifice

•Sealed progress is permanent

This creates long‑term decisions:

•Do you push deeper now?

•Or lock in what you have forever?

Tone & style

•Dark cult themes

•Absurd bureaucratic language

•Dry humor and ominous paperwork

•“Monty Python meets sinister administration”

The game treats horrific ideas with deadpan professionalism and ridiculous seriousness.

Features

•Idle + active play styles

•Deep, long‑term progression

•Multiple interacting systems

•Permanent buildings and upgrades

•No hard ending — the institution keeps growing

•Designed for long sessions and repeat play

Current state

This is an actively developed project.

Core systems are implemented and being expanded.

Expect balance changes, new upgrades, and deeper automation over time.

Feedback is welcome.