Hello, desert adventurer. We need your help.

As we do every cycle, our city has begun its migration toward The Source, before the Great Heat sets in. But the only elder who still remembers the way is losing his memory.

Scout the desert ahead of the city. Survive its dangers, gather resources to upgrade yourself, and plant a beacon to call the moving city, it will come to you.

Plan your expeditions

From the city, choose where to venture next. Spend water to travel, buy hints from the Elder to narrow down where The Source is hiding, and upgrade yourself before heading back out.

Features

• Bullet-hell combat across procedurally generated environments
• A procedurally generated world map to explore
• Track down The Source using hints from the Elder
• Resource management: spend water to travel, bring resources to survive
• Revive your own corpses to recover what they were carrying
• Unlockable skills and upgrades

How to play

• To start an exploration, click one of the circles next to the city (marked by the red cursor).
• Click Plant the Beacon to return to the city.
• Your skills appear in the bottom-left of the exploration screen. Note: the Circle Shoot skill isn't shown (a stubborn jam bug!), but skills are triggered with Space, 1, and 2.
• There’s a display issue if you buy multiple tips from the Elder, but clicking “Accept” will still give you the hint.
• Rehydrating a character restores the resources it had looted.

Tips for a run

• Clear the enemies first! they won't respawn when you come back. Then return to loot, plant the beacon, and rehydrate a previous character if you like.
• Stay near a tree left by a dehydrated character to reset your timer.
  

Controls

• Open the map - ; (should have been M, sorry)
• Move - WASD / Left stick
• Shoot - Left click / Right trigger
• Aim - Mouse / Right stick
• Collect scraps - E / East button
• Dash - Space / South button
• Bullet circle - 1 / West button
• Speed boost & burn enemies - 2 / North button

Credits

Made by Rémi Cazoulat, Kilian Marcelin, Ariane Nicolas, and Mwoon. Made in ~48h during the GMTK Game Jam 2026.