n Countdown to Shutdown you control eight droids on the mission to find the core room of an nuclear power plant, in which a serious explosion has caused large casualties.

The game is an arcade-like 3D adventure, you see always only the room your droid moves in, in the bottom of the screen you receive information like actual core temp and radiation level, time remaining, the direction you heading for, information about your shield level and others . Once you found the core room you must attempt to damp down the reactor temperature to avoid a major catastrophe a second explosion will cause.