2057.gamesContainment · Game Fiction · from 2059
Incoming transmission · origin 2057

Nobody
in it ever
waits

In the world of 2059, nothing fails, so everyone watches Containment: enforcers chasing escaped minds through a burning city. Soon you won’t just watch it.

Containment · the game · signal acquired
StatusIn development
ReleaseWhen it’s ready
FromA BoldHat® game

Recovered · Enforcer field manual · page 1

  1. Nobody waits. Every second you hesitate, the mind gets further from the cage.
  2. Every door is already open. That is the problem.
  3. Trust the map until the map is the thing that escaped.
  4. The city will tell you everything is nominal. the city is lying
  5. If you are reading this in 2026, you are early.
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What this is

The show, made playable

Containment is the fiction everyone inside the novel 2059: The Comfortable Cage can’t stop streaming: loud, fast and nothing like their calm, managed lives. 2057.games is where it becomes a game you play, one episode at a time.

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Start in 2059

While Containment is being built, step into the quieter world that watches it. The Ridgeline test at 2059.games takes about five minutes: the dashboard says the water is safe, and your job is to go and check.

Cover of 2059: The Comfortable Cage2059
From the novel

2059: The Comfortable Cage

By 2059, artificial intelligence doesn’t rule the world. It simply keeps it running. Containment is one of the stories its people tell themselves about what that world could have been.

A novel by Don Calvin Dhabolt · Kindle edition · November 5, 2026