Update: Sales have resumed! As the game's creator explains on Twitter, what started as a joke about fake scarcity has become an example of it... For $2 US, it's available on itch.io.

Here's the original story: forgive me for leaving the name of this game, which coordinates raids in an MMO I've never played, out of the headline. This is because the name of this game is "My Older Sister Left The Computer So I Got On And Found Myself Trying To Coordinate A Raid In A Game".

It's a real game. When I boot up the game, within seconds I'm in control of 47 level 70 fantasy heroes. They set up their formations and I decide which abilities to use.

We're fighting something called Valea the Non-Extant, which is like a stasis undead plant, and all the abilities have inexplicable fantasy names like "Runic Prayer" or "Astral Carnival," which "inflicts a condition on the target They have vague explanations such as "gives the target a condition" or "grants a status to the target". The only way to know its effect is through trial and error.

This stress simulator is both a game and a real-life nightmare. The game is the work of CannibalInteractive, which in the past has included "6 random characters and a one-floor dungeon, that's all the game is" and "You have low stats but your class is "leader," so you gather everyone you know to fight the Dark Lord."

Another thing to know about "My Older Sister Left etcetera" is that it is only available on April Fool's Day. It will not be available for payment at the itch.io store after midnight Pacific Daylight Time, but it will be back for 24 hours on April Fool's Day after that.

So what will Numbing Clots do, and how will this status of Dark Vitals be erased?