How to play Desert Survival
Desert Survival is a walk out of the desert: five stretches of sand between you and the highway, and a body that has to survive every hour of it. Two gauges matter — water, and your temperature.
By day the sun heats you, hardest at noon, and walking in it drains your water fastest. The shade of a rock cools you, but shade moves with the sun: it stretches west in the morning, shrinks to almost nothing at midday and swings east in the afternoon, so resting in it means reading where it will be. By night the sand gives its heat straight back to the sky. Standing still chills you, walking keeps you warm but you can see very little, and a fire of dry brush — gathered in daylight, two bundles a fire — is the only real comfort. Cacti hold a little water each, and there is a well somewhere in the middle of the desert.
Let your temperature climb into heatstroke or fall into hypothermia, or let your water run dry, and you lose health; lose all five and the desert keeps you. Each stretch is hotter by day and colder by night than the one before, with fewer rocks, cacti and brush.
Objective
Walk across five stretches of desert to the highway without dying of heat, cold or thirst.
Features
- A day and night cycle that turns heat into cold
- Rock shade that moves with the sun
- Water from cacti and a single well
- Dry brush for night fires
- Stretches that get hotter, colder and barer
Keyboard
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