Heatwave: The battle for coldYour street. Tonight.
An audio horror game on your own streets. Earbuds in, half an hour, follow the sonar to cold seeds. Don’t get found.
iPhone · Free beta · 16+ · Switzerland & Netherlands first
No one would have believed, in the first years of the twenty-first century, that this world was being watched, keenly and closely, from beneath the ice. That as we busied ourselves about our various concerns, the glaciers were slowly, surely, letting go of what they had held for ten thousand years. It came out of the meltwater in the summer of 2041. It burns. And it wants the one thing we have left. Cold.
It came out of the meltwater.
Thirty-four seconds, with captions. Earbuds in.
Always unseen
Phone in your pocket, screen dark. Tap a word to hear it.
Built for the street
Let’s take Marktgasse back.
The Operator
Hexagon by hexagon
Every street is a sector. Walk it, plant it, and it turns green. Leave it, and it fades a day at a time.
The same grid covers Utrecht, Bern and your street.
Over the radio
Your Operator knows your callsign. Calm when it is quiet, whispering when something is close, shouting when it is on you. No numbers in your ear, no lectures.
The Canopy
Rob and Ellen are Operators of the Canopy, the people taking the towns back. Growers keep the last seeds alive and prepare the planting zones. Canaries like you carry them out, hold the ground and plant. The Operators guide you and report what happens to every sector.
“The growers kept these seeds alive. We’re getting them back into the ground.”
Into your pack. Keep it.
Rare. A month’s worth of green. Keep close.
They feel cold the way we hear a scream.
The Operator
Find. Survive. Plant.
Rarer seeds buy more green and bring a harder hunt. Every type you find earns a card for good.
SEED · RARE · ABOUT 1 IN 4 SEEDS
Turns a sector green for 30 more days. Everyone’s seeds add to the same score.
Kept colder. They will come harder for this.
“Cones from the last high forest. Slow to grow, and it outlives everyone.”
SEED · LEGENDARY · ABOUT 1 IN 50 SEEDS
Turns a sector green for 365 more days. Everyone’s seeds add to the same score.
Kept coldest. They will feel it from far away.
“The one they said was gone. The network will remember who found it.”
SEED · COMMON · MOST SEEDS
Turns a sector green for 3 more days. Everyone’s seeds add to the same score.
Kept just cold enough.
“Hardy seeds that still grow on thin alpine soil.”
SEED · RARE · NOT FOUND YET
Turns a sector green for 30 more days. Everyone’s seeds add to the same score.
Kept colder. They will come harder for this.
“Its seeds wait somewhere out there. Follow the sound.”
Better with friends
Solo is the whole game. Friends on the same streets add to the same sectors, and every walk ends with a short movie you can send.
What you need
Every night nobody walks it, it stays theirs. The beta is open now.
