Exploration
Beyond the south gate, a new world every game: supermarkets, hospitals, schools and stations to explore room by room.
Firekeeper
The village is empty. The world outside is not.
The 3D zombie survival game we are building: you play it in the browser, with nothing to install.
The world outside
Beyond the south gate
Out there is the city you crossed to get here: it emptied in a single winter, and it is never the same twice. Every trip out leads into streets, houses and shops nobody has emptied yet.
- 15 places to explore
- 1 new world every game
The Firekeeper That's you: the one who keeps the village fire burning.
The Ash
It fell from the sky
For three weeks the planes spread a grey dust over fields and cities: a fungus made to heal poisoned land. People called it the Ash. Then it began to grow in the dead, and the dead began to hunt the living.
The school Closed since the first winter. Nobody came back to open it.
The park The trees grow thicker than before. That is not a good sign.
The loot
Every trip out is an expedition
Food, water, medicine, ammunition: everything the village needs is out there, in car boots, on shelves, in houses. You search, you choose, you bring it home.
Car boot Somebody left in a hurry.
The workbench
What you find becomes something else
Back at the village, materials become tools, defences and weapons. Legendary weapons can't be bought: you find their blueprints out there, one piece at a time.
- 7 legendary weapons to find
Meanwhile
Someone is in trouble
You are not the only one left. At the far end of the street a survivor has her back to a van, and nowhere to run.
Survivor Unarmed, and with nowhere to run.
The infected
A single organism
They are not different monsters: they are the forms of a single infection. Some follow the heat, some run, some scream to call the others, some play dead. In the dark and in the rain they grow more dangerous.
- 8 forms of the infection
Walker It follows heat and noise. It doesn't tire.
The run
Every second counts
Run, draw, aim: out there, nobody pauses the world for you.
The aim
Every shot counts
Ammunition is scarce, and every shot carries far: you aim, you pick your moment, you fire.
Target Three metres from her.
The rescue
Those you save stay
Whoever you bring back to the village stays: a name, a trade, a place to sleep. And someone knows what happened to the ones who left before you.
New resident At the village she will have a bed and a job.
Sunset
Night changes everything
The day really passes: in the dark you see less, the infected grow faster, and your torch both saves you and gives you away.
The village
The village grows with you
It was Vera Lind's camp. Two winters ago she set out east with her expedition, thirty people, and none of them came back. Now it's yours: from tents to walls, you rebuild it one piece at a time.
- 6 expansion tiers
- 18 structures to build
Walled Hamlet The third of the village's six tiers.
The fire
Keep the fire burning
The Firekeeper is not a hero, it's a role: the one who keeps the fire burning and brings the others home. If they fall, someone else takes it up.
Firekeeper is in development. Want to know when you can play it, or talk to us about it?
The fire When you arrived it was nearly out. It is yours now.
The world isn't over: it's being composted
A consortium had made VERDANT, a fungus that could clean land poisoned by decades of industry. They spread it from the sky as a grey dust, the Ash. Today the spores are everywhere, and the bodies of the dead are their soil.
The village was Vera Lind's camp. She set out east with her expedition and never came back; only Elias stayed by the fire, waiting for her. You arrive after three days on the road, find the gate with nobody on it and a fire nearly out. That is where your story begins: a prologue, six chapters and an epilogue, to find out where the ones before you went, and what the world is turning into.
The game at a glance
What the film tells, in six points: it is all in the game, in development.