Coldwatch is a single-player, run-based survival horror game. Something came with the dark a few weeks ago — now you survive alone in a shelter, sending your drone out each night to scavenge for supplies, parts, and the truth, using thermal and night vision to see in a world with no light left. But every light you switch on draws the dark closer. Grab what you can. Get home before dawn. You won't last forever — only deeper.
THE LOOP (WHAT YOU DO)
Plan your night from the shelter — check your supplies, pick which map to risk, prep the drone.
Launch into the dark and fly out using thermal and night vision — your only way to see.
Scavenge for food, drone parts, and story fragments scattered across the map.
Scrutinize what you find — is it loot, a survivor, or something that shouldn't be there?
Carry only what fits — the heavy part or three rations? Fill the load and turn back, or push your luck?
Extract before dawn — drain the battery or run out the clock and you don't come back. Die out there and you lose everything you carried.
THE DARK REACTS TO YOU
The danger is never seen — only felt. And everything you do draws it in.
Your light, heat, and noise pull it closer the longer you linger.
You'll never see it clearly — you'll know it by its signs: a heat signature with no body, something moved since last night, a sound from the wrong direction, cold creeping into your feed.
The deeper you push for better loot, the more dangerous the way home becomes.
SURVIVE, UPGRADE, GO DEEPER
Build yourself up between nights — everything you scavenge keeps you alive a little longer.
Drone: bigger carry capacity, longer battery, better sensors, repairs.
Shelter: light, power, and — when the dark starts reaching you — defense.
Character: food and health to push survival further.
MULTIPLE MAPS, DIFFERENT RISKS
Travel between locations you unlock — but you never leave the drone's eye.
The Farm: open, learnable, moderate loot — recover and rebuild here.
The Hamlet: abandoned houses and tight interiors — richer, more to scrutinize, more places it can be close.
The Deep: remote, dark, unreliable signal — the richest loot and the boldest danger. Push your luck.
THE RUN NEVER ENDS THE SAME WAY
The world is fixed, but the night never is.
Randomized loot, threats, and anomalies every night.
Fog, rain, and pitch-black nights that change how far you can see.
An escalation that grows worse the deeper you go — and always, eventually, wins.
FEATURES
Single-player first-person drone gameplay with thermal and night vision.
Greed-vs-extraction loop under a battery and a dawn deadline.
A danger that reacts to your light, heat, and noise — felt, never shown.
Scrutinize-and-judge scavenging: tell the loot from the wrong.
Run-based survival with meta-progression: upgrades, unlocks, and uncovered story.
Multiple maps with different risks, rewards, and specializations.
Randomized nights for high replayability.
Built around a distinctive, clippable night-vision/bodycam look.
EARLY ACCESS NOTE
Coldwatch is being built in public: the core loop comes first, then more maps, more danger signs, more resources, deeper shelter defense, and more of the story behind what came with the dark.