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WendwakeArcade, Adventure

Wendwake

Read haunted ground, build your weapons and choose when to head home.

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About Wendwake

Enter a haunted district as a surveyor. Your weapons attack automatically while you steer around echoes, collect fragments and choose upgrades. Read numbered sites, recover sealed parcels or silence a district boss, then return HOME alive.

Each safe return adds tally to your ledger. Spend it on lasting upgrades and open new districts and specialists. Stay longer for more rewards, or take a smaller return while the way home is still clear.

How to play

Goal
Complete the chosen survey, recovery or silencing contract, then return HOME alive.
How it ends
Returning HOME banks your tally; falling or the ground closing loses the expedition.
Record
Your tally, upgrades and unfinished expedition stay in this browser when storage is available.
  1. Start with the introductory survey, or choose an available district, contract and specialist from Expeditions.
  2. Drag the ground, use WASD or press the arrow keys to move. Weapons attack automatically. Walk over fragments to gain levels and choose weapon or tool upgrades.
  3. In a survey, stand in the next numbered ring until its reading fills. Recovery contracts ask you to collect parcels; silencing contracts ask you to defeat the boss.
  4. Walk onto HOME to bank what you have earned. You can return early with a partial reward. Falling or remaining until the ground closes loses the expedition.
  5. Use gates to shape a route, step clear of red attack warnings and keep a way back. The ledger keeps your tally and offers lasting upgrades at the Forge.
Worked example for Wendwake
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Touch or mouse dragMove from the point where you press the ground
Touch buttonsUse Gate, Place anchor, Back-Out and Extract when available
WASD · ArrowsMove
F · Q · Space · EGate · Place anchor · Back-Out · Extract
1–3Choose an offered upgrade
Escape · R · ?Pause · Restart · How to play
GamepadStick moves; RB Gate; X anchor; A Back-Out; Y Extract; Start/B pause; Back opens the guide

Tips

  • Keep a way home Read the route before committing to another site. A partial return keeps its tally; a loss does not.
  • Move through fragments Defeated echoes leave fragments on the ground. Collect them when the route is safe to earn more upgrade choices.
  • Read the paired tool Weapon cards name the tool needed for a transformation. Choose upgrades that support what you carry.

Good to know

Progress, settings and unfinished expeditions stay in this browser when storage is available. Website and mobile-app saves are separate. There is no online leaderboard or account requirement. Requires WebAssembly. Sound effects, reduced motion, reduced flashing and brightness are adjustable.

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