5 hours until the update is an incremental game where you manage the development, efficiency, refactoring, recruitment, and patience of your team. Gain achievements, prestige to boost meta-efficiency, become enlightened, and release updates to progress. There are challenges to overcome, auto-dev assignment features, and various upgrades to improve your performance. Experience a complex gameplay loop with a variety of milestones and progress milestones to unlock new multipliers and bonuses.