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Heat Retreat

Your home town is forced to evacuate: assemble your party, choose a vehicle and grab supplies before hitting the road in search of refuge. Manage your resources and barter, scavenge, hunt or steal along the way to survive in a rapidly warming world filled with hard choices, danger and dysentery.

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Coast Wide Systems Inc.
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Coast Wide Systems Inc.
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About the Game

Set in the near future where climate change has toppled past the tipping point, Heat Retreat sets you and your party venturing out as climate refugees in search of a safe haven. Forced from your home by a sudden evacuation order, select your vehicle, gather what supplies you can and hit the road. Choose carefully, however, as every choice you make will have an impact sooner or later.

Featuring a detailed simulation where every choice you make will impact your odds of survival it's a race against time as the global average temperature steadily ticks warmer, increasing the frequency and severity of weather events and influencing behaviours and attitudes you'll encounter along the way.

Key Features

  • Detailed simulation using real world models

  • Experience dynamic weather events driven by the background simulation

  • Day/night cycle

  • Choice of 3 vehicle archetypes

  • Upgrade your vehicle

  • Variety of mini-games & obstacles to overcome along the way

  • Stop at a variety of locations to rest & resupply

  • Manage your supplies, including food, fuel, first aid and much more

  • Manage your party's health, fatigue, hunger and thirst

  • Make tough choices for the greater good of your party

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