Sibiria
Survive four nights in the Evenki taiga, 1993 — then build a settlement around your hut
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Top-down survival and settlement · free, no install, no sign-up · MIT
About the game
January 1993. Mi-8 board 24713 went down on a river bend in Evenkia. You are Lyosha, the radio operator. The radio is smashed, the crew is gone, and the nearest people are days away. Find the old hunters’ hut, light its stove, meet the old Evenk Urkachan and get through four nights.
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Then the game turns into a settlement story: hire hands, build and climb through the ages, trade for roubles — all in a taiga that does not forgive mistakes. It runs in the browser with no install or build, and it works on phones.
Features
- Seven chapters: Wreckage, Urkachan, The Pack, The Signal, then Trapping, Wintering or the Expedition; found notes and dry-humoured dialogue
- Real cold: warmth, hunger, frostbite, blizzards — a fire is the only safe place
- A hunting pack of wolves and a rogue bear that smashes the smokehouse and steals food
- Your own hut and settlement: up to 8 kinds of buildings, 4 ages, hiring hands, trading for roubles
- RTS-style control: box-select, right-click orders, groups, an alarm bell
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- About 11 × 11 km of taiga in eight zones: aufeis, burnt forest, a boulder field, a bald peak and more
- Five endings, three save slots plus autosave; a phone-friendly layout
Screenshots
Controls
7 actions
- W A S Dmove
- Eact: chop, fish, read, talk
- FQRfire · eat · trap
- CBworkshop · build
- Drag boxRMBselect people · give an order
- HEscalarm / all clear · pause
- Wheel0zoom · back to the hero
At a glance
- Platform
- browser on desktop and phone
- Install
- none
- Playthrough
- seven chapters, five endings
- Code
- open source, MIT; no build step and no libraries (only Google Fonts)
FAQ
Is it a true story?
No, it is fiction set in the realities of Evenkia in 1993: the characters and events are invented.
Can I play on a phone?
Yes: there is a joystick, an order mode and pinch zoom.
How do I save?
Sleep in the hut to save progress; there are three slots plus autosave.
How long is it?
The story takes a few evenings; the settlement and different endings give reasons to return.