DUTY GUVNOR

State your business at the desk. The sergeant will pretend not to listen. Below: the matters the desk is asked about most, and how to reach a human when the desk cannot help.

1. WHERE YOUR CAREER IS KEPT

• In the browser — your service record, casebook and any suspended night live in this browser's local storage, on this device. Clearing site data clears the career. Private/incognito windows keep nothing.
• On Steam (desktop) — saves are files on disk, synced by Steam Cloud: on Windows under %APPDATA%\Duty Guvnor\saves, on Linux and Steam Deck under ~/.config/Duty Guvnor/saves. The first desktop run adopts any career it finds this browser left behind on the same machine.

2. A WEEK FROM HELL

A WEEK FROM HELL — seven consecutive nights worked as one posting, with one letter from the Commissioner at the end: three EXEMPLARY nights make Chief Inspector, anything less survived is retained in post, and a career ended mid-week is dismissed the Force. Steam desktop build only; the web keeps single nights. A week in progress can be abandoned from the parade sheet; abandoning it scraps its nights and anything it had on the hook.

3. A SUSPENDED NIGHT

A night can be put down mid-shift from the board and picked up later from the parade sheet. One night on the hook at a time; picking it up consumes it, booking on fresh scraps it, and the daily shift — being everyone's same night — cannot be put down.

4. NO SOUND?

Browsers hold all audio until you have touched the page — book on duty and the set warms up. If it stays silent, check the tab is not muted and that reduced-motion/auto-mute extensions are not sitting on it.

5. STARTING AGAIN

There is no button that burns the file — careers are meant to be carried. If you must: in the browser, clear site data for this site; on Steam, delete the files in the saves folder above (and turn Steam Cloud off for the game first, or it will politely put them back).

6. REPORTING A FAULT

Write to the desk with: what happened, what you expected, the device and browser (or Steam/OS), and the build stamp from the bottom of the game page (it reads like build a1b2c3d). A screenshot earns a nod from the sergeant.

7. THE DESK ITSELF

Email: support@dutyguvnor.com
Enquiries are answered as the night allows. No accounts exist, nothing is collected, and nothing leaves your machine except what Steam Cloud carries for you.