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Permaban is out!

Permaban · published 8 Sep 2026, 17:18 UTC

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It's 2007 and you're the unpaid mod of a dying forum. Every ban needs a rule behind it, and the people you punish come back to argue. Inspired by Papers, Please, minus the clock.Launch price is $4.99, 55% off until September 18.A campaign runs about 40-60 minutes, longer if you poke at the desktop, which you should. Endless mode holds the rest.If something breaks, the discussion board is the place. I'm reading everything this week.Thanks to everyone who wishlisted this and waited. It's yours now.

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In-game event12 Sep 2026v1.0.1: first patch after launchI did not expect this many of you. Permaban is a game about reading a forum in 2007, made mostly by one person, and I went into launch week hoping a handful of people would find it. Instead the reviews, the discussion threads and the emails kept coming, from moderators who said it felt accurate to people who had never touched a forum and stuck with it anyway. Thank you. I read every one of them…Announcement21 Aug 2026Permaban releases September 8!Permaban leaves Coming Soon on Tuesday, September 8 , at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern / 17:00 UTC. $4.99, with 25% off for the first ten days. It's 2007 and you're the unpaid mod of a dying forum. Every post is a judgment call, every ban needs a rule behind it, and the people you punish come back to argue. If you wishlisted this back in spring, the game got bigger while you weren't looking. Wha…Game update13 Aug 2026v0.71.0: What happens between the wavesNew · Ban Appeals. The people you banned come back to argue. After Wave 2 the shift does not start until you clear a queue of three cases: the post you banned, quoted with the rule you cited, and their side underneath. Two buttons, no tools. Sometimes they are right. The plea never tells you which. From Wave 3 on it is optional overtime. · Overturn a ban that was sound and the account comes bac…