A resource-management game with a siege at the end of every round. You are not commanding an army. You are running a mine that has to survive the night it paid for.
Base-building and lane defence, in the family of the build-then-survive games — plant your line during the calm, watch it get tested during the rush.
One shift is roughly twenty-five minutes. A campaign is a chain of shifts across six territories, each with a different reason you are short of power.
One allocation bar feeds extraction, refining, compute and defence. Everything good you can do with it makes something else go dark.
Pre-production. No playable build. No date announced. What is written here is the design, not a description of a build you can download.
Extraction feeds refining. Refining pays for defence. Defence keeps extraction alive. Power sits in the middle and refuses to be in more than one place at a time.
The seam is read, the terrace is bare, the allocation for the shift is posted.
Drills and belts go down. You overbuild. You always overbuild.
The Stacks bid for power. Take the money and run the shift thin, or refuse and stay warm.
Headlights on the haul road. Whatever you did not power is now decoration.
What survived is banked. What you learned is the actual progression.
Place the rigs. Cut the haul road. Decide what this settlement is for.
A shift starts empty. You lay drills against the seam, drop crushers behind them, and run belts back to the refinery. Every metre of belt is a metre you have to power, and a metre something can reach.
Power is the real currency. Everything on the map is bidding for it.
Drills, leach cascades, cooling and compute all draw from one allocation. Sell a block to the Stacks and you are rich this shift and dark the next. The dispatch board is the game's hardest screen and it is deliberately one wall of grease-pencil lines.
At the end of every shift, something comes down the haul road.
Claim-jumpers, a Union audit crew, a thermal runaway in the tailings pond, a draw spike out of the Stacks that tries to eat your whole allocation. You defend with what you built: floodlights, arc fences, a pumped-water curtain, a crew you paid on time.
| Structure | Role | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| Drill head | EXTRACTION | Cheap, loud, useless without a belt behind it |
| Crusher line | EXTRACTION | Doubles throughput, triples draw |
| Leach cascade | REFINING | Turns pit mud into rare-earth concentrate. Runs hot, runs slow |
| Refinery furnace | REFINING | Gold and silver. The only output that survives a bad season |
| Compute hall | YIELD | Sells electricity back as hash. Pays instantly. Owns your grid |
| Arc fence | DEFENCE | Stops claim-jumpers. Goes dark the second the grid dips |
| Water curtain | DEFENCE | The only thing that answers a thermal runaway |
| Dispatch board | CONTROL | Lets you move allocation mid-shift. One per settlement |
| Threat | Type | What it teaches |
|---|---|---|
| Claim-jumpers | LANE RUSH | Fast, cheap, constant. Teaches you to power your fences |
| Audit crew | TIMED PRESSURE | Union inspectors halt an unpermitted line until you pay or argue |
| Thermal runaway | AREA DENIAL | The tailings pond turns on you. Water, or lose the terrace |
| Draw spike | ECONOMIC | The Stacks pull hard. Your whole map browns out unless you shed load |
| Deep winter | ATTRITION | Everything costs more power for eight shifts. No enemy required |
None of the above is a screenshot, a tuned number or a shipped feature. It is the design as it stands during pre-production.