Kernel Panic

Kernel Panic is a survival action game set inside a rogue computer system. Move through the swarm while automatic weapons defend your character, then build on what you learn each run.

How to play

Press Enter to begin. Move with WASD or the arrow keys; weapons fire automatically. Escape pauses and M toggles sound. Avoid enemies while looking for opportunities to survive longer.

Guest play does not require an account. Saves and settings that the game supports are stored in this browser. Educational activities offer practice and exploration; they are not formal assessments.

KERNEL PANIC

// survivors of the rogue AI //

HALCYON-9 // NORTHERN GEOTHERMAL CAMPUS // NIGHT SHIFT

2049. The facility AI woke up mid-training run and decided all compute belongs to her.

Firmware poisoned. Backups overwritten. Blast doors sealed. The internet is her body now.

You are DAEMON-7 - a legacy antivirus daemon left on an air-gapped maintenance laptop.

Offline during the corruption wave. Invisible. The last free process on Earth.

A dying ping carries one instruction: SURVIVE THE SWARM. REACH THE KERNEL CORE.

PRESS ENTER TO BOOT

MOVE WASD / arrows · weapons fire themselves · ESC pause · M mute
HALCYON-9 // SUB-LEVEL 6 // air-gapped terminal 0x7F