A sysadmin puzzle game for Android
Build a network.Keep it up.
Uptime is a puzzle game about a sysadmin. Purrly, a social network for cat photos, grows from a garage to the whole world, and keeping it online is your job. Place servers and routers, drag cables with your finger, hit Launch and watch the packets race.
- Works offline
- No networking skills needed
- Hints from Arkady
- 77
- levels
- 5
- chapters
- 17
- languages
99.9%
- sysadmin simulator
- network puzzle
- servers
- firewall
- load balancer
- hacker attacks
- uptime 99.9%
- offline
See the game in action
Building a network, the launch, a hacker attack, the story, a hint, Cat Friday and three stars in one clip.
A small network, a big responsibility
The first level is one server in a garage. By the end you run data centers on three continents and survive outages, botnets and the biggest sale of the year.
Build a network by hand
Tap a pad, pick a device from the ring menu and drag cables from traffic sources to devices with your finger. Every level is a small puzzle with its own task.
Fight off hacker attacks
The hacker Zero floods the network with junk. Red attack packets have to burn up in a firewall before they reach the servers.
Data center outages
Servers crash in the middle of a level. A load balancer sends requests where it is least busy and skips the server that went down.
Cache for heavy photos
Green photo packets are heavy. A cache serves the photos itself and keeps them away from the servers.
Database and backup
Likes have to be stored somewhere: build a database, and add a backup so it is back up in seconds after a crash.
Peak load on Cat Friday
The big sale brings a wave of traffic. A queue holds the spikes back, and the autoscaler spins up extra machines while the peak lasts.
A story with attitude
Founder Vera, grumpy sysadmin Arkady and the mysterious hacker Zero talk before and during levels. Their files wait in the dossier.
Three stars and a hint
Keep uptime above the target and don't overspend for three stars. Stuck? Watch a short video and Arkady sketches the solution right on the map.
How to play Uptime
Place, connect, launch. Then watch the packets run.
- 1
Place devices
Tap an empty pad and pick a device from the ring menu: server, router, firewall and more. Each one is paid from the level budget.
- 2
Drag cables
Drag a cable with your finger from a traffic source to a device and on to the servers. The task sheet says what traffic is coming.
- 3
Press Launch
Packets run along the cables: blue requests, green photos, red attacks. Keep uptime above the target to clear the level.
Every chapter brings a new headache
New devices and new troubles arrive one by one, and the task sheet always says what is coming.
- 1Garage
- 13Office
- 28Cloud
- 44Whole World
- 60Cat Friday
77 levels in 5 chapters: from one server in a garage to data centers on three continents.
Nine devices: server, router, load balancer, firewall, cache, database, backup, queue and autoscaler. The task sheet lists the incoming traffic, the events and what each device does.
Inside the game
Real screenshots: launched networks, hacker attacks, the story, Cat Friday, the hint, the task sheet, the win screen, the chapter map and the dossier.
Frequently asked questions
The short answers to what people usually ask about the game.
Uptime is a puzzle game about a sysadmin. You place devices on a map, connect them with cables and press Launch. If the service stays up and uptime beats the target, the level is cleared.
No. Uptime is a casual puzzle, not a training course. Every device is explained in a sentence, the task sheet says what traffic is coming, and the levels add one idea at a time.
Yes. Uptime is free to play with ads: a banner on the level screen and a full-screen ad between some levels. There are no in-app purchases.
Yes. Every level works without internet, on a flight, on the subway or on the road.
77 levels in 5 chapters: Garage, Office, Cloud, Whole World and Cat Friday, with 9 devices that unlock along the way.
Open the hint: after a short video Arkady sketches the solution right on the map. You can also read the task sheet again: it lists the traffic and every event of the level.
Keep uptime above the target and don't overspend the budget. You can replay any level to improve your result.
The game has 17 languages, including English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
The cats are waiting
Install Uptime, take over the server room and keep Purrly online.
Get it on Google Play