Home By The River
Transform a dead polluted land into a beautiful homestead by a river. A relaxing, peaceful, feel good builder game with its own story.
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19 itemsAbout the Game
Revive a dead polluted homestead, clean it up and make it your beautiful home! Cut down dead trees, plant new trees and crops, grow and harvest to earn money and resources.
CLEAN POLLUTION
Cut down dead trees.
Remove trash.
Plant new trees.
Place solar panels.
Establish wind farms.
Build your clean reactor.
CREATE YOUR HOME
As you level up you'll gain more tiles that can be unlocked and placed in the world.
Right click acts like a colour picker and can also swap to the Axe tool for quick harvesting.
Alpha numeric keys allow you to quickly select a mode; delete, build, interact, inventory, foreground, props.
You can left click drag build and delete for fast construction and deletion.
Holding down left shift while constructing will immediately build a solid wall which is great for building faster.
FARM, HARVEST & COOK
Plant corn, wheat, sugar, and trees.
Sell the harvested crop or you can process them further for use in cooking.
Let some trees grow to help reduce pollution and harvest some to sell their lumber. Do sustainable forestry.
YOUR STATS
Hunger - you can't do anything if you're hungry so eat food.
Energy - you can't do anything if you're tired, so get rest.
Spirit - you can't do anything if you're depressed, so meditate.
Experience - gain XP, level up so you get more tile types to build and more neat stuff to do.
Virtue - defines how people react to you and your end game experience.
EARN INCOME
Sell harvested crops to rivermen, or better, through a trading terminal when you're higher level.
Collect sky nodes and get money, XP, and spirit.
Make computer games, if you make a legendary one you will make tons of cash.
Establish ventures in the background and let the passive income roll in.
Build solar panels. Yes, you'll get income from your solar farm.
Bail out businesses that are close to default. They'll take you on as a shareholder and give you dividends!
AND MUCH MORE
Establish your underground lab, gain research points, unlock research cards and create clean reactor components that you'll donate to the world.
Enlist pioneers who will help you achieve your objectives. Harvester pioneers will remove trash, cut down dead trees and harvest mature crops for you.
Feed your super cat, change its colours, or give it a hat.
Upgrade your hoverboard and fly!
89 Achievements to earn!
And more for you to experience.
