The Hideaway

The Hideaway is an exploration and discovery low-poly game with realistic survival game mechanics.

Year 3515 in Earth's referential, all humans have left the earth hundreds a few years ago.
You're a member of an exploration team and part of the last humans there are still in the galaxy, researching about the lasts traces of humans on other planets including the Earth. Due to a lack of maintenance and strange magnetic events, your ship on-board computer failed. Forced to land, you end up alone in various harsh environments. From there you will now have to survive, and use what's left of your instincts and abilities to understand your needs and your environment.

Gameplay

In The Hideaway Exploration mode, you'll be able to explore and discover many different biomes and microenvironments, from fauna to flora, with realistic meteorological events, sounds and much more, in a calm and soothing experience. Trying to find a way to extract from your environment

However, if you play in Survival mode, nature will exercise its rights over you and may become either your home or your worst enemy. In the survival mode of The Hideaway, diseases, global energy, hunger, thirst, body temperature, exterior temperature, blood pressure and volume, poisonous plants, and much more will make the wilderness a harsh place,

Features

Explore : Explore freely different beautiful and lively environments, from small forest biomes to large islands and deserts
Observe : Many sorts of animals will be surrounding you during your journey from hares to deers
Experience : Mother nature can sometimes be really impressive and beautiful, from tornadoes to snow storms to rarer events like eclipses, full moons, northern lights, starry nights and many more.. Experience pure nature
Survive : You will have to explore the wild in order to find food, water and avoid poisonous plants in order to survive
Permanent Death : Your only way to return home is to survive, if you're dead, you've failed. No question of holding your hand
Face the elements : Body statistics are realistically simulated in The Hideaway. In survival mode, you will have to regularly check your vital signs, from blood volume to body temperature, energy... in order to stay alive
Build : You will be able to build many types of wooden structures with logs / wood pieces that you will need to find in your environment
Customize : You will also have access to a relatively large choice of furniture to completely customize and personalize your buildings
Listen to nature : Simply listening at the different atmospheres, music, water drops, rivers, wind, seas, weather events and the different animals sounds will make you feel the environment like never before
Minimalistic UI : The UI Is very minimalistic, it's only here to tell you what you need to know and can be completely hidden by pressing the Tab key by default
Procedural worlds : Each game will be different. As the weather and sky events are procedurally generated, animal proportions and pickable wood quantities are evolving perpetually, a game can easily turn from a walk in the forest to a survival challenge.