One person. Real games.

You are Detective Cole, and this was supposed to be simple: drive out to Sleepy Falls, collect your cat Jigsaw from your Aunt May, and drive home. But the town is empty. Dinner sits cold on every table. The phones are dead, the only bridge out is flooded — and Grimsby Aerosols, the factory on the hill, keeps hissing away into the rain with nobody left inside to run it.

Over four acts you'll cross an abandoned town, break into the factory that poisoned it, brave a pitch-black forest with something very large in it, row a storm-lashed lake to a house that shouldn't be lit, and descend into a flooded bunker to meet the man who did all this.

• 26 scenes across four actsThe town, Grimsby Aerosols, Blackpine Forest, the lakehouse, and the bunker beneath the lake.
• Streamlined quest-game controlsA context-sensitive cursor picks talk, use, look or walk; right-click examines the world.
• 25+ puzzles across 14 systemsLock-picking, map-tracing, pipe routing, jigsaws, breaker panels, valve balancing, keypads, radio tuning and more.
• Adaptive difficultyFailed attempts quietly make puzzles kinder, and Cole thinks out loud when you're stuck.
• Survive the airHazardous zones drain your AIR meter. Find a mask, manage the filter, and watch what the town's air does to your perception.
• A chase in the darkSomething very large guards Blackpine Forest, and your flashlight only reaches so far.
• A full cast of survivorsA stranded trucker, an amnesiac reporter, a farmer who won't leave without his animals, a postman two weeks behind his round, and the courteous monster at the heart of it all.
• Three endingsEach with its own animated cinematic and an epilogue for every character you met.
• Retro VGA-inspired artDithered skies, relentless rain and lightning, drifting dust, and an optional CRT scanline filter.
• Original soundtrackTen tracks scored to each act, four ambience layers, 26 sound effects.

Scroll for more · click any image to enlarge · story by Ben M Stroud

You have nothing a prosecutor would take. No wire on a made man, no photograph of a crime, no witness who will say a surname out loud. What you have is sixteen surveillance photographs of men outside a social club on Alden Street, a book of remembrance signed at a funeral, a newspaper columnist who describes everybody and names nobody, and an informant who poured drinks in that back room for four years and will not put a name to a single face.

Every one of those files is true, and not one of them says who anybody is. Newark wants a table of organisation on the wall by the new year — one boss, one underboss, one consigliere with no crew of his own, two captains and three buttons tied to the captain who carries them. For each man a photograph, a legal name, and the name he is actually called. No single document will give you two of those three together. You get them by putting one file against another.

• Search the drawer, don’t browse itType a name, a street, a pier, a date. What you type is the only thing you carry from one file to the next.
• Nothing states an answerEvery entry on the board is a join between two sources — a nickname in a newspaper column, a middle name on a police card, a bail bond stood by the wrong man.
• A man locks himselfWhen his photograph, his legal name and his street name are all right together, he stamps confirmed. No submit button, no partial credit. Two right and one wrong looks exactly like three wrong. Guessing is permitted. It is simply hopeless.
• Pick up the telephoneA Western Electric 500 with a working rotary dial and thirty-five numbers that answer. A pretext call will corroborate the paper, contradict it, or get you hung up on. No voice will ever hand you an answer.
• Half the men were never initiatedThe informant report names four sorts of non-member and says outright that it is not a full list. Strike them out yourself. Nobody marks it for you and nobody checks it.
• And then it’s 1979Finish the 1971 chart and the case reopens eight years later on the same eight boxes. The old man is in the ground. Three men are sitting in chairs that weren’t theirs. One of the two new men is a name you were told, in writing, was not a member.
• Two seats with nobody in themNewark will not accept a guess at which two. A seat recorded as empty is an entry like any other: right or wrong, with nothing said back.
• A desk, and timeSix acts across two charts. Forty-six documents, thirty surveillance photographs, a notebook, a calendar and a radio with five stations. Four hints per chart if you want them — the first is on the house.

Click any image to enlarge · plays in the browser, no install and no account · needs a mouse and a bit of screen — not designed for phones

Beyond the wreckage lies a world of living giants, abandoned machines and survivors trying to build something that lasts. Keep your distance as a rifle-wielding Ranger, close in with the Striker's twin arc blades, or hold the line as a hammer-wielding Warden.

Read the warning zones, dodge the impact, and interrupt the cast that could end your expedition. Then carry what you found back to Haven, because the run out is only half of it.

• Three classes, nine skills eachRanger, Striker and Warden, with allocatable attributes across damage, health, speed and mana. Skills sit behind three prerequisite branches.
• Loot that changes the fightFive gear slots, three rarities and four biome sets. Two- and four-piece bonuses alter real combat stats or grant healing, area damage, slows and free abilities.
• Guardians with patternsEach act ends on a guardian with its own telegraphs, an interruptible cast, a shield phase and an enrage below half health. Miss the interrupt and the whole arena pays.
• One connected worldTravel from the Eos crash site through jungle, ashlands, frozen country and machine territory. Fog of war lifts as you explore, and regions carry their own level ranges.
• Nights that biteDay gives way to dusk and the wild turns aggressive. Seek Haven, or go out prepared.
• Somewhere worth returning toHear out Haven's residents, take side missions, improve the village, then build a personal home with storage and a bed you can sleep until morning in.
• Earn your raptorA mount is not a purchase. Help Tala, earn Amber's trust and finish the mission line that unlocks it.
• Mine, gather, huntAether ore veins, sunleaf, herbivore hunts and field orders that send you out with a list and a reason.
• Personal loot, WoW-styleKills leave glowing bodies. Walk up, compare against what you're wearing including set bonuses, and take what you want. Optional auto-loot; full bags leave the rest on the ground.
• Runs in your browserNo download and no install — built on React and Three.js with procedural character rigs, real shadows and four biome palettes. Progress saves to your own device.

Early Access gameplay · click any image to enlarge · plays in the browser, no install and no account · Acts II–IV still in development⁵