Firebreak
Controls: Click or tap fern to clear it. Switch to BACKBURN with the button or B. Press READY or Space to bring the fire early. P pauses.
About Firebreak
Year twenty-seven, and the rains did not come. A dry storm has set four thousand square kilometres of dead fern on fire, and the wind is driving the front straight at Terminus.
Firebreak is a fire-spreading strategy puzzle. Before the front arrives you get a short planning phase and a limited number of crews. Clear fern to cut lines the fire cannot cross, use rock and river as anchors, and set backburns to burn your own ground first. A backburn spreads both ways, though, so a careless one can reach the town by itself. Every front is faster and gives you fewer crews.
The Cretaceous Line
Firebreak is a free companion game to The Cretaceous Line by Silas Rook. If the game hooks you, the full story continues in the book series.
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