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How it plays · 30 seconds
01
You read the book.
Paper or Kindle. Choices route you through the city. The text tells you what it costs: water, food, blood.
The stairwell is black. Your legs want the street door. The pharmacy is one floor up.Water −3 at nightfall
02
You keep four gauges alive.
HP, energy, food, water. Zero to ten. A need at zero is the last playable page.
HP
6
WT
2LOW
03
You die by your own mistakes.
No dice. Fights and nights resolve the same way every time. Survivor mode wakes you at your checkpoint; Hardcore starts the book over.
You died.
Survivor · Night 3 · Section 47
The companion tracker
Your gauges and your pack, while you read.
Gauges, pack, ammo, checkpoints. It runs in your browser while you read, and the radio tab replays the broadcasts the book tunes into. This one is live: try it.