Downriver

DOWNRIVER

A wilderness survival and crafting game

Your bush plane came down hard beside a wide northern river. The pilot didn’t make it. Nobody knows where you are.

The river flows south toward Fort Calder, 90 km downstream. Winter is coming. Make fire. Find water. Build a boat.

Survive the bush

• Keep five needs in check: health, food, water, warmth and energy. Let any of them run out and you won’t last long.
• Boil river water before you drink it, cook your meat, dry off by the fire and get out of the snow.
• Each day is colder than the last. Craft fur and leather clothing to stay warm, and it changes how your character looks.
• Sleep on a bough bed or under a lean-to to skip the night, but without a fire something may come looking for you.

Craft from what the land gives you

• More than 70 recipes across six stations: by hand, campfire, workbench, drying rack, tanning frame and boat slip.
• Chop spruce and birch, peel bark, gather fiber, chip stone and tan hides.
• Every recipe shows what it leads to, so you can always plan your next step.

Hunt, fish, and fight to stay alive

• Snowshoe hare, spruce grouse, beaver, grey wolf packs, black bears and bull moose, each with its own behaviour.
• Spears, a bow and arrows, snares, gill nets, and a hook-and-reel fishing minigame.
• Butcher what you catch for meat, fat, bone, sinew and hides.
• Wolves circle at the edge of your firelight. Bears and moose decide whether to charge or walk away.

Take to the river

• Build a log raft, a tarp canoe or a wooden canoe and let the current carry you south.
• Steer around rocks and through rapids, and patch your hull before it breaks apart.
• Find the Trapper’s Cabin and an abandoned fish camp along the way. Supplies are waiting, and the cabin is a safe place to rest.
• Further south the forest belongs to the wolves and bears. The river is the only safe road, and the worst rapids of all guard the last stretch before town.

The details

• Every map is different: river, creeks, ponds, muskeg, forest and rapids are generated from a seed.
• An opening cinematic of the crash and an ending cinematic when you reach Fort Calder.
• Day and night with dynamic lighting, plus rain, snow and wind.
• Built-in animated tutorials explain every system, and your next objective is always on screen.
• Your game saves automatically. If you black out, you wake where you last slept with your gear still on you.
• Everything (terrain, animals, clothing, icons, music and sound) is drawn and played live in code. No image or audio files.

Controls

Action	Keyboard & mouse	Touch
Move	WASD / arrow keys (Shift to run)	Left joystick
Interact	E or Space (hold to repeat)	Use button
Attack	Left-click or F	Attack button
Switch tool or weapon	1–9, 0 or mouse wheel	Tap a hotbar slot
Pack / Craft / Map	I / C / M	Top-right buttons
Objectives / Tutorials	Q / ?	Top-right buttons
Menu / pause	Esc	Menu button

Plays in your browser on desktop and mobile. Use fullscreen on phones for the best experience.