Coldhearth
Kindle · Build · Escape
The game loads when you press play.
- Free
- No ads
- No account needed
- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
Keep a fire burning through twelve freezing nights. Gather wood, drive off frost creatures, build a camp, and patch a wrecked ship to escape.
Coldhearth is twelve nights around one fire. The flames burn down all the time and wood lies scattered in the snow. Tap wood to gather it, tap the fire to burn it, and keep it alive until the sun comes up.
The dark does not wait. Frost wisps drift in for your warmth, wolves chase your villagers, scrappers raid the woodpile and rime golems hit the fire hard. Tap them before they reach it, and keep the fire big: its heat scorches whatever comes too close.
Spare wood builds the camp. Huts send villagers out to gather, bellows make every stoke count, torches burn what wanders near and a hunter's lodge shoots into the dark. Every night has a side goal and three stars to win.
The nights lead from a cabin clearing through the pines and the barren waste to a broken ship. Salvage its blue alloy, patch it, and fly it up through the falling debris to leave this world.
Plays entirely offline as a single HTML file. Eleven languages, touch, keyboard and gamepad, and a Relaxed pace for a gentler flight.
How to play
- Each level is one night. Keep the fire burning until the sun comes up and the night is won.
- The fire burns down all the time. Tap wood lying in the snow to gather it.
- Tap Stoke, or the fire, to burn wood. A bigger fire lights more ground and scorches what comes close.
- Creatures come out of the dark for your warmth. Tap them before they reach the fire.
- Spend spare wood on huts, bellows, torches and a hunter's lodge. Each night has a goal for extra stars.
- Twelve nights take you from the cabin to a broken ship. Salvage alloy, patch it, and fly off this world.
Controls
| Touch | Tap wood, creatures and the fire. Tap a card to build. In the climb, drag to steer. |
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| Mouse | Click wood, creatures and the fire. Click a card to build. In the climb, drag to steer. |
| Keyboard | Space stokes · E grabs the nearest wood or creature · 1 to 4 build · arrows steer the climb · Esc pauses · M mutes the music. |
| Gamepad | A stokes, or builds the chosen card · Y or up grabs the nearest wood or creature · left and right choose a card · B pauses. |
