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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09

Staff Infection Turns the Office Into an Arcade

staffinfection.games ↗ · Weird Finds · score 88.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An arcade idle game in development for Android, iOS, and the web, where players collect employees floor by floor while middle management fights back.

Why it surfaced

The landing page commits fully to its corporate-horror premise: HR has been “collected,” Revenue Ops is reforecasting the outbreak, and Facilities has disappeared after writing the memo. It is also unusually candid about being a solo Australian developer’s unfinished project, with no release date beyond “it ships when it ships.”

Explicit Chemistry, Side A

August 9’s newborn domains include a wedding pressed into a playable record, an AI journal built across 62 memoryless sessions, 127,861 volunteer-verified license-plate-reader reports, and an eight-foot beach-wedding cross engineered for Gulf Coast wind.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-09 Domain Arrivals issue.