ARKOLOGY

Two wardens. One tower. The sea is rising.

It's 2055. The water will climb about 120 storeys. ARKOLOGY is a 3D tower-building strategy game about keeping one vertical ark alive above the flood.

The work is split between two benches:

• The Spine is the tower's body: trunks, reactors, pumps, freight and sea walls.
• The Commons is its life: homes, food, jobs, civic halls and parks.

Play solo and run both benches, or click Play with someone to hand one bench to a friend.

The rules of the tower

1. The spine is the only way in. Trunk Spines must stack unbroken from the ground, and anything more than 4 steps from one does nothing.
2. Water does not climb. A Pump Deck lifts water 3 tiers above itself, so pumps have to march up the tower with the homes.
3. Shortages climb. When power runs short, the highest decks go dark first.
4. The sea keeps rising. A Hull Bulkhead seals its column below it, and you can't seal everything.

Goal: reach month 240 with 52,000 people aboard, without either warden's mandate hitting zero.

Controls

• Click: build · Right-click: clear · Drag: orbit · Wheel: zoom
• 1–0: pick works · Tab: switch bench · Space: run · .: advance one month
• V: views (structure, service, power, water, morale, flood) · R: camera · M: sound · H: help

The green Next box on the left always tells you what the ark needs, and every number explains itself when you hover over it.

free to play, always. tips are optional, the toronto hydro bill is not. the support button is up top if you feel like it. if you don't, thanks for playing anyway.