Hard Rain

The acid rain is approaching, and rescue is days away. Can you maintain food and fuel supplies and keep your shelter intact long enough to survive?

Hard Rain is a text-based survival game where every decision matters. Take control of a party of four, organise supply runs and base repairs and, most importantly, make sure no-one gets caught out in the rain!

Made in 4/5 hours for Trijam (I ran a little over time due to a few last minute bugs and tweaks)

Warning: Godot 4's HTML5 exports currently cannot run on macOS and iOS due to upstream bugs with SharedArrayBuffer and WebGL 2.0. A downloadable build is provided for Mac users as an alternative.

How To Play

Hard Rain is a text-based game - all commands are typed. A full list of available commands is listed for each character when their turn commences.

PLEASE NOTE: if a character is currently undertaking a GET or RETURN action, you can press ENTER during their turn without typing to continue the current action.

Update Phase

With each turn, rescue gets a little closer, but so does the rain! Any character caught in the rain at the start of your turn will be killed.

At the start of each turn, your party will consume a set number of resources:

• 1 Grain per surviving team member per turn
  For instance, a full party of 4 will consume 4 grain per turn
  
• 1 Wood per turn
  Burned as fuel to keep the generator running

Action Phase

Each character can complete one action per turn, from the following list:

• Get [Resource]
  The character will immediately move one space towards the specified resource's storage area. Characters will automatically switch to return behaviour once they have completed the Get action
  
• Return
  Immediately stop the current action and move one space back towards base.
• Repair
  This action requires 2 wood and 2 scrap to complete, and will restore 5 base hp. Be careful not to use the last of your wood!
• Wait
  The character will wait in place - a great way to ensure you stay safe and sheltered when the rain arrives

Not all actions are available at all times - check the onscreen action list to see which actions are currently available during each character's turn.

About

Made in Godot 4 // Assets made with GIMP // SFX  edited in Reaper and Renoise, using various CC0 samples from Freesound.

The font used is Not Jam UI Condensed 16, available for free under CC0 licence.