A reason to make
Maren wants the crew kept from her fire, and the crew pay for iron: so a fire before dark, charcoal off it, a pick, and the iron carried to their camp. Hunger, wet and lamp oil are counted the whole way.
UNSPENT
Sixty years after the war, a man comes up out of the sea.
Free. A real-time game for keyboard and mouse.
The coast
The town on the coast went in the war. Then came the quiet, and the machines building out past the point. They do not look at the people in its ruins until somebody breaks their works; then the hunters come for the nearest roof.
One morning a man comes up out of the sea, and Maren, the fire-keeper, pulls him out. He makes a fire, a pick, and a knife that bites the gantry keeping the machines' yard. The Holdfast's last mercenaries were paid to wait for him.
Frames
Drawn by the game as you play it, nothing painted over.
What you do
A fire, a pick, a knife, a raft.
The Tide Reaper
Past the point, a gantry on two tracks reaps the shore in rows; iron rings off its drum. A knife tempered in a kiln brings it down, or it is drawn onto the flats and sinks to its deck, and the yard's lights go out and stay out.
Raids that answer light
There is no raid timer: a holding is found by what it gives off, its lamplight, smoke and noise. The machine that reads it must carry the record home, and one put down on the road files nothing.
Across the water
A raft of driftwood, plate and rag takes him over the narrows to a drowned city, whose ferries still run to the timetable from before the water. On that shore the Covenant lives on what the machines leave, and keeps the war's archive.
Mended gear
Plate armour is spent by the blows it turns. At a bench it is patched with scrap and rag, or bound with tide iron off a felled harvester into mended plate, which turns more of each blow and lasts twice as many.
Download
Play here in the browser, or take it with you.
UNSPENT needs a keyboard. On a phone or tablet, come back on a computer.
Opening it on macOS
The Mac build is not yet signed with an Apple Developer ID, so the first time you open it macOS cannot check who made it.
- Open the zip. Move
UNSPENT.appto Applications and open it. macOS refuses it once. - Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security. Under Security it says UNSPENT was blocked. Choose Open Anyway and confirm.
- Or in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/UNSPENT.app
Opening it on Windows
The Windows build is not yet code-signed, so SmartScreen does not know it.
- Unzip it and run
UNSPENT.exe. - If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.
- With Smart App Control on, Windows blocks unsigned programs outright. Play in the browser instead.
Opening it on Linux
- Unzip it. If the file manager will not run it:
chmod +x UNSPENT.x86_64 - Run
./UNSPENT.x86_64. It needs a Vulkan driver (Mesa, or your GPU vendor's).
Every build is checked to start on its own system before it is published. Your saves stay on your machine; the browser keeps its own.