Economine · a game

The Last Ember

Act 1 · The voyage

How to play

Choose a star. Three stars are ahead. Each jump burns fuel, wears the hull, and some sleeper pods fail on the way. Tap a star in the window or a card below it.
Deal with what you find. Traders, salvagers, people calling for help, a derelict, the other ark. Every choice says what it costs. Seeds, machines and medicine are gone for good once traded; copies of culture and archives cost nothing.
Scan the worlds. Probes sharpen the picture of a planet. You have only a few for the whole voyage, so spend them on worlds that look worth it. Every world has a flaw; it shows after three probes.
Settle or jump on. Once a world has had two probes, the crew vote. You can overrule them, but they remember. No world is perfect, and the clock is running: fuel, hull and pods only go down.
Hand over whenever you like. "Let the steward decide" takes one step and says why. "Fast forward" lets the steward fly all the way to landfall.

ARKLONG HEARTH

SPEED0.02 cNormal space

FUEL

HULL

CALM

SLEEPERS

Choose the next star

Ship's log

Choose where to land