Greywell silo · Level 61 · Hydroponics
Grow the Council’s quota under pink grow lamps, until a door sealed for two hundred years knocks back.
You farm Level 61 of Greywell, a silo sealed deep underground. Every month the Council posts a bigger figure, and Steward Vance comes down the stair to collect it in potatoes.
The trouble is the seed. Greywell has replanted clones of the same potatoes for two hundred years, and each generation yields a little less. The Council’s ledger knows exactly how bad it is.
Then, at the end of the west tunnel, someone knocks on a door that has been sealed for two hundred years. From the other side.
Screenshots from the game in development.
Plant, water, light and harvest against a monthly figure that only goes up. Saved seed weakens with every generation, so trade for new lines and cross them at the research bench before the beds give out. Power is short, and the grow lamps, the pumps and the tunnels all want it.
The Council keeps the ledger and the sealing law. The Pumpwrights keep the water and power running and want the tunnels open. And whoever is behind the door has terms of their own. Cover for one, report on another; each of them remembers.
Combat is turn-based, with action points for moving, swinging a pipe wrench or firing a bolt pistol. Bosses need more than damage, so pay attention to what you find, earn and build.
Pick it at New game for a harder run. You can only save by writing up your log at a bed, and if you die you wake in the last bed you saved at.
Who you cover for, what you report and which lamps you cut all come back. There are four endings, and each closes with an epilogue built from what you did along the way.