First Cradle

You were promised a new world.

In the not-so-distant future, humanity settles the stars through one-way portals. You are John Smith, the last colonist on the manifest. You step through the gate with a neural implant that holds everything humanity has ever learned, and you expect to find your team waiting on an Earth-like frontier.

You wake up alone. The cargo is scattered and nobody answers the comms. The world around you looks uncannily like home.

First Cradle is a first-person survival and civilization builder. You start with bare hands and a damaged AR implant, and you end as the founder of a settlement that can hold its own against the tribes of an untamed frontier.

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Survive

• Recover the scattered colony cargo, guided only by a beacon on your HUD. There's no map until you find the discovery drone.
• Gather, hunt, fish, farm and forage across forest-steppe, river valleys and open grassland.
• Craft tools, weapons and armour, and cook, tan and tailor to stay alive through day, night and weather.
• Build your skills through use: melee, ranged, hunting, crafting and more, each with its own milestones.

Build

• Raise a settlement piece by piece, from wattle shelters and kilns to mills, bakeries, forges and a mint.
• Upgrade buildings through material tiers, and work your way up the tech ladder from stone to iron.
• Make better goods as your craft improves: finished items come in quality tiers.

Lead

• Invite villagers from passing nomad bands and give them jobs: foresters, miners, gatherers, fishers, hunters, smiths, guards and more.
• Keep your people fed, housed and happy with shared meals, festivals and a korchma (tavern) to gather in at night.
• Send expeditions out for days at a time, lay roads, and fast-travel between waypoints.
• Defend your town against steppe raiders, whose attacks grow as your settlement does.

Discover

• The TID, your neural HUD, has every piece of human knowledge except where you are.
• Find out who else is out there, and what this world really is.