Keeping Up

Managing a crowded desktop

Keeping Up is a PC time-management roguelite set on a retro computer desktop. Work, daily life, health, relationships and dreams appear as program windows, each with a progress bar that keeps draining. You switch between them to stop tasks from failing, but each window demands a different kind of attention.

Click repeatedly to catch up with work, wait for daily-life tasks to cool down, or hold a button to maintain health. Messages need replies at the right moment, while other windows involve calculations, timing or scratch-off panels. More windows appear as a run goes on, increasing the pace and the number of demands competing for your attention.