Deadfall
The world ended years ago. Break camp, follow the road, build something that lasts anyway.
The game
Deadfall is a first-person, free-roam survival game set years after a quiet collapse, on a single hand-crafted map. Nature has taken the towns back. Danger is sparse but lethal. The loudest thing in the world is usually you.
You scavenge what's left, keep your people fed and warm, and deal with whoever else survived — some trade, some beg, some hunt you. Infected exist, but this is no horde shooter: meeting two at once is a bad day. Three humans with guns is a reason to hide.
Muted, hazy, melancholy — but with a warmer core: your gear grows, your routes harden, your situation genuinely improves. Progress amid the decay.
Nomad by pressure
There is no fortress meta here. Loot never respawns — a looted region stays looted, and the map slowly empties behind you. Stay too long in one place and the area's heat builds: smoke, light, gunshots and walls draw infected drift and bandit scouts. The world shows it before any number does — more wanderers on the road, a silhouette on the ridge, scratched marks on your door.
So home moves with you. Camp is wherever the group unpacks tonight; settling is possible, but it's a deliberate, loud, expensive statement.
Break camp — where next? Travel and scavenge, back before
dark. The region runs dry, the heat rises. Unpack somewhere
new: cook, repair, plan. Stronger gear, emptier map behind
you. Move on.
The long arc
- Survivor — nothing but pockets. Scraping food, running from everything, sleeping in ruins.
- Nomad — tent and bedroll, first workbench, melee competence. Moving every few days as the land empties.
- Caravan — a handcart, real carrying capacity, trading relationships, known routes. Pushing into dangerous ground as planned expeditions from a forward camp.
- Endgame — the gear and knowledge to crack the military zone and the map's last secrets. A permanent compound becomes possible — expensive, loud, a statement.
One authored world
No procedural terrain, no reroll on death. One dense, intentional map you learn house by house — every building enterable or honestly ruined, every cache hand-placed and worth the walk.
- Homestead fringe — meadows, small farms, woods. Where you wake up.
- Village — shops, houses, a church, a gas station. Good common loot.
- Industrial edge — warehouse, rail yard, workshop. Materials and fuel.
- Forest depths — game, herbs, timber — and the camps of people who don't want visitors.
- City center — dense ruins. The best meds and ammo, at a price.
- Military zone — sealed checkpoint. Endgame ground.
Roads are fast and safe-ish; cutting cross-country is shorter and riskier. Rain dampens your steps but also everyone else's. Fog is ambush weather. Night outside camp is genuinely dangerous.
Better with company
Built for 2–4 players, drop-in co-op, from the ground up — every system is designed around the question "what does this look like with a friend?" Evenings in camp are for cooking, repairs, reading found notes, and arguing about where to go next. Solo works too; it's just quieter.
Made in Godot 4 by one developer. Deep in development — which is where you come in.