KIDNAPPED, FROZEN AND HIRED
Don Morsa has kidnapped you and offered you a "job opportunity": dig up everything you can sell from the ice. You swing the pickaxe, the seals buy, and he collects. A perfect business. For him.
Bazaar Below Zero is a first-person cooperative incremental game for 1–4 players where you turn the frozen objects of a glacier into an ever-growing business. Play solo or share the work with friends: there's ice to break, shelves to fill and a quota that won't pay itself.
FROM THE ICE TO THE SHELF
Fish, toys, relics, fossils... You never know what you'll find on the other side of the next block. Dig tunnels, free the objects and carry them to the bazaar to sell to your customers: the seals.
Tidiness pays off: group objects by category or color and complete collections, and the seals will pay more. Space is limited; what you can pull out of the ice is a lot less limited.
START WITH A PICKAXE. END UP GIVING ORDERS.
Invest your earnings in tools, upgrades and furniture. Clear a path with a drill, pick up objects with a vacuum and expand the bazaar to fit your next finds.
When your flippers can't keep up, hire penguin interns to dig, haul and restock. Automate the work and spend more time searching for what's hidden in the depths. Mind you: your employees want to get paid, too.
FOUR PENGUINS. A SORT-OF PLAN.
While one digs, another hauls and another organizes the shop. The fourth one probably has a brilliant idea that is about to go wrong.
Coordinate with proximity voice chat, move big blocks together and show off your customized penguins. You can run an efficient business or turn the bazaar into a pile of objects on the floor. Don Morsa expects his money either way.
THE GLACIER HIDES MORE THAN MERCHANDISE
Paying the quotas opens the way to new areas of the glacier, with different ice, more valuable objects and hidden places. Discover buried shops, find treasure and unearth a life-size mammoth.
But the deeper you go, the clearer it becomes that your future isn't behind a shelf. Explore, gather what you need and prepare your way out of this peculiar job.
ESCAPING IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
Complete your first escape to unlock new ways to play:
- Escape Tree: permanent upgrades you keep between runs.
- Arcade: combine modifiers to change the rules.
- Daily Challenge: a different run every day, solo.
You can always come back with a better plan, better tools and friends who swear that this time they will organize the shelves.