Shutdown IT

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Shutdown IT is a game built around a full refinery shutdown, with every craft on the job. Scaffold IT! is the first playable craft, and you can play it today. The full game follows in early 2027, with Future Packs adding the other crafts. SCAFFOLD IT! Step onto a refinery turnaround and build the access that gets the work done. Scaffold IT! is a first-person game set on a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit during a turnaround. When a valve, nozzle or flange high on a column needs work, it’s your job to give people a safe way to reach it. You plan the job on a tablet, then assemble modular scaffold piece by piece: verticals, horizontals, decks, toe boards, ladders and gates. You start as a new hire on a test tower, working alongside a crew who don’t always do things by the book. Speak up, report it, fix it yourself or let it go, then call the inspection and live with the result. Pass and you’re hired, then move up from journeyman to leadman to foreman over the turnaround, with your own crew and more of the planner opening at each rank. The unit feels alive around you, with pumps, compressors and the flare, radio calls from the job, and other trades at work on their own jobs. It gives you a feel for the refinery environment and the way a turnaround runs, whether you know the trade or have never set foot on a unit. Play on a desktop with keyboard and mouse or a game controller.