Goal: Survive as many cycles as possible on a melting ice floe. Your score is the number of cycles survived.
Controls
- Move: Click adjacent ice tiles (costs 1 action)
- Gather: Click adjacent resource tiles to collect Driftwood 🪵, Scrap Metal 🔩, or Fiber 🌿
- Fish: Click your player while adjacent to water (costs 1 action, yields Fish 🐟)
- End Cycle: Click the "End Cycle" button when out of actions
- Inventory: Press I to open inventory (12 slots max)
- Crafting: Press C to open crafting panel
Survival Stats
- Warmth: Drops each cycle. Use Torch 🔥 to restore warmth over 2 cycles.
- Hunger: Drops each cycle. Eat Fish 🐟 to restore hunger.
- Energy: Drops each cycle. Restore by ending cycles (sleep).
Crafting Recipes
- Torch: Driftwood + Fiber → restores Warmth over 2 cycles
- Fishing Rod: Driftwood + Fiber → bonus fish when fishing
- Ice Saw: Scrap Metal + Driftwood → enables tile reinforcement
- Makeshift Shelter: 2× Driftwood + Fiber (placed item, no effect in MVP)
- Reinforcement: Ice Saw + Fiber → resets a thinning tile to full thickness
Ice Melting
Edge tiles lose thickness each cycle. Thickness: 3 (solid) → 2 (thinning) → 1 (cracking) → 0 (water). Reinforce tiles before they crack!
Difficulty
Choose difficulty on title screen: Thaw (Beginner), Frost (Intermediate), Blizzard (Expert), or the locked Impossible tier. The 4th difficulty unlocks after surviving 15+ cycles on Blizzard.