An AI Data Center management game has suddenly started taking over Steam. While the world is fed up with AI becoming more and more regular in daily life, it’s baffling how a game that simulates the management of a data center is getting praised.
The game is developed and published by the indie creator Waseku. Although it is not fully released yet, players can take a peek at the game’s demo, which is currently available on Steam. The game is set to release at the end of March this year.
So far, the game’s demo has reportedly received a good deal of positive reviews. While the rest of the internet is finding themselves in awe at the situation, making fun of fans of the sim genre, who are going to play anything new that comes up.
What is the gameplay of Data Center like?
The main meat of the game is pretty similar to tycoon management sim games that were once massively popular, and also were responsible for revolutionizing the genre. Data Center lets players step into the shoes of a server manager.
Having the tedious tasks of building and routing cables, assembling server racks, and making sure that at the end of the day, the connection capacity is not surpassed. Players earn from the processed data in the firms and utilize the newfound funds to grow the servers further.
Pretty simple management sim idea on paper, but why is it taking off so much with an enormous amount of wishlists for the game? Well, this might be the next Kerbel space program or Factorio in the making, if the developers keep playing their cards right.
Social Media reaction to the Data Center Game
Social media, however, is not too impressed with whatever is going on around a game that is about managing data centers, especially in a day and age where AI is the reason why a lot of new problems are cropping up, such as memory chip shortages and RAM prices skyrocketing.
Some users took to platforms like Twitter/x jot down their thoughts on the whole situation. Some jokingly claim that the game is about training gamers remotely train on how to manage future AI data centers.
While other suspicious accounts took their time writing down whole essays on why a game like this is beneficial for the industry. Long posts that definitely do not look like it was generated by an AI.
According to another user, the options for data center jobs in the US keep rising every year, thanks to the bloating AI bubble. Leaders like Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, also commented on the situation, saying, “Our industry finally has its Madden”. As for the general gaming consensus, this title has not caught mainstream attention, and it won’t ever, we think.
