"KZ" is the German shorthand for concentration camp. Austrian newspapers reported that a poll of students in one city found 39 percent knew of the games and 22 percent had encountered them. In 1991, The New York Times reported that KZ Manager was one of about 140 games with similar themes. Like other resource management games, this means that ultimately the goal of the game is trying to find an optimal balance and timing between expenses, income, actions and "production goals", although with a highly controversial twist. Also, prisoners must be "purchased" by the camp's "manager", and the corpses of the deceased prisoners must be disposed of (the game describes them as "Müllberg", German for "garbage mountain " or "pile of garbage"), an operation which also has an associated cost. Spending too much time without a "sufficient" number of executions makes "public satisfaction" drop, and having too few working prisoners will soon drive to a resource shortage, and closing of the camp, thus losing the game. However, ordering said gas costs money, which can be gathered by forcing the prisoners to work. In one version, public opinion rises when the "manager" executes a number of prisoners with Zyklon B. The goal of the game is to keep the camp functioning by keeping the "public opinion" or other important resources and gauges over or under a certain threshold.
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