NETRUN: OVERRIDE

"The ICE is closing in. The terminal is screaming. Jack in, dump the data, and get out before your nervous system flatlines." Lore You’ve bypassed the outer firewall of the Megacorporation’s mainframe, but the black-budget AI security system (ICE) has detected your digital footprint. Trace programs are actively locking down your terminal, and a lethal electrical feedback pulse is traveling directly down your neural wire. Your mind is directly linked to the machine. You have only minutes to decrypt the data core and extract before corporate security cooks your brain from the inside out. Game Details Number of Players: 1 (Solo) Genre: Cyberpunk / Micro-Print-and-Play / Strategy Play Time: 5–10 minutes Main Mechanics: Resource Management, Risk vs. Reward, Press-Your-Luck, Dice Placement Simulation Core Mechanics System Integrity vs. Speed: Manage three critical, interconnected pools—Rig Integrity, Synapses, and RAM. If any hit zero, your run is over. Neural Overdrive: Choose between safe, slow decryption protocols or forcefully blasting through code using the "Jack In" action—which guarantees massive progress but inflicts physical and mental damage to your runner. Automated Threat Engine: A simple 1d6 roll at the start of every turn simulates the AI counter-measures shifting against you, creating an unpredictable, high-tension puzzle every single run. Requirements To play this game, you only need to print (or hand-write) the single game card and gather a few household items: 1 Printed Game Card. 1 standard six-sided die (1d6). 1 pencil with an eraser (to track your changing resource stats on the card).