VENERA 31

The orbital eyes are gone. In a year the program goes blind for good - and what isn't verified by then never happened. Three rovers are still alive on Venus. One downlink. It is narrow. You are the Operator. Something is growing down there, and the Company pays for verified truth only. A short, replayable descent into corporate cosmic horror. No jump-scare filler - just you, a bad monitor, and the growing certainty that the defects are looking back.