Hostile · Strafing runs
Herring gull
Larus argentatus
A long shadow darkens the lane first. Then it comes in low and keeps scooping hatchlings until its talons are full.
If the sand goes dark, move.
06 June — 05:58 — Loggerhead Nest 114
T-DAY
Get to the water.
Saving Private Ryan’s Omaha Beach, played completely straight. Except you’re a baby sea turtle.
In development · Windows & Linux · Keyboard & mouse or gamepad
01 — The landing
It’s 05:58 on 6 June. Six thousand siblings burst out of the dunes and run for the sea.
Gulls strafe the beach, shells walk up the sand, ghost crabs ambush the chokepoints, and a raccoon tears through the crowd like a tank. You are one hatchling in the crowd. Get to the water.
- Hatchlings per run
- 6,000+
- Alive on screen at once
- 4,500
- Per run, in three acts
- ~6 min
- Make it, on the hardest setting
- 1 in 1,000
They are a real simulated crowd, not a backdrop. Most of them die around you.
05:58 · Act I
The Dunes
Out of the nest and into the grass. Ghost crabs hold the chokepoints.
06:00 · Act II
No Man’s Sand
Open beach. Gull strafing runs, a creeping barrage, and the raccoon.
06:03 · Act III
The Surf Line
The water is right there. The waves keep dragging you back.
02 — Known hostiles
Everything on this beach has done this before. You haven’t.
Hostile · Ambush
Ghost crab
Ocypode quadrata
It waits behind the dune grass at the chokepoints, exactly where the crowd has to funnel through.
Hold to hide[CTRL] / [RMB]
Hostile · Armour
Raccoon
Procyon lotor
It tears through the crowd like a tank, and it doesn’t aim at where you are. It aims at where you’ll be when it arrives.
Get out of its path[SPACE]
03 — Field manual
You can’t fight. You can be somewhere else.
- Crawl
- Toward the light, with four thousand others who want the same thing.
- Dodge[SPACE]
- A burst of speed. Use it to get clear, not to get ahead.
- Hide[CTRL] / [RMB]
- Pull into your shell and let it pass.
- Get down
- Drop into a tyre rut and everything passes over you.
Keyboard & mouse or gamepad
04 — Choose your odds
- Recruit
- Regular
- Veteran
- 1 in 1,000
One hit kills. Every death sends a whole new nest. About one hatchling in a thousand survives.
That is roughly the real number.
There is no game-over screen
06 June — 05:59
Hatchling #1,206
Killed by: Herring gull
17 m from the water
06 June — 06:04 — The surf line
Get to the water.
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