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Alpha Playtest Open // Concord Status: Arrived

The ship reached Verity. Nobody on board knows.

Wake up alone on a generation ship that forgot it arrived. A dense ASCII roguelike about rebuilding from wreckage, crossing broken factions, and choosing what happens at the Bridge.

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Run length
45-90 min
Mode
Singleplayer
Endings
4 gated
[signal: query] REPORT. BRIDGE. ALPHA PLAYTEST OPEN RANGED COMBAT LIVE DOOR STATES LIVE SECTOR GRAMMAR LIVE FACTION MEMORY ON HACKING SUITE ONLINE LOW-KILL ROUTES NEEDED FOUR ENDINGS GATED STEAM EARLY ACCESS TARGET
Why play now

Help us turn a promising alpha into a Steam-ready run.

The play loop is in. Five main sectors, two branch floors, modular salvage, four damage types, faction memory, terminal hacking, four endings — all shipping. What we need now is outside eyes telling us where it feels alive, where it drags, and where the ship stops reading as a ship.

01

Map Feel

Sub-Industrial, Verdant, Habitation, Mind Core, Command Approach — each sector has its own grammar. Tell us when they read as a ship and when they read as procgen mush.

02

Combat Pressure

Bump melee, ranged fire, blast scatter, door bottlenecks, alarms with sound propagation. Combat should feel dangerous and avoidable, never noise. Tell us where it tips either way.

03

Build Identity

Five part eras — Founding, Schism, Verdant, Silent, Heir — shift faction posture and the shape of your Frame. Tell us when you felt rebuilt versus when you felt like a stat sheet.

04

Story Signal

Standing-order fragments, four Ship Mind voices, three Bridge breach paths, four endings. Tell us what lands, what reads as gibberish, and what you wanted more of.

The mission

You are not the hero. You are the last thing that still works.

The Bridge has been sealed since the Schism two centuries ago. The bio-vaults breached generations after. The Ship Mind splintered into four voices that no longer talk to each other. Fifty-two thousand colonists are still in cryo. You were a maintenance Frame. A 240-year-old protocol just woke you up with a corrupted standing order: REPORT. BRIDGE.

  • Modular Frame across five slots — power, propulsion, weapons, sensors, utility.
  • Four damage types — Kinetic, EM, Thermal, Explosive — with real heat and corruption.
  • Faction reactions read your loadout, your kills, and the signals you broadcast.
  • Three Bridge paths — Captain's Override Key, Sub-Mind Quorum, or a hull breach.
  • Four endings — Decelerate, Continue, Wake the Sleepers, Open the hull.
/ S T A T U S / FLOOR 1/5 
ORDER    REPORT. BRIDGE.
CORE     150 / 150
ENERGY    50 /  50  +6/t
HEAT     [COOL]
SCAN     NO HOSTILE IN SIGHT
GATE     SEALED
PATHS    OVERRIDE / QUORUM / HULL
Current alpha build

Seven playable maps. Real ranged combat. A ship layout worth arguing about.

Latest HUSK gameplay screenshot
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What is in

Five sector grammars and two branch floors. Modular parts across five eras. Bump and ranged combat with four damage types. Door states, terminal exploits, faction memory, four Ship Mind voices, three Bridge paths, four endings, save/load, run summary.

What we are testing

Whether the first 45 minutes hook. Whether builds feel different. Whether the Bridge feels like a choice. Whether the Concord reads as a real ship after 240 years of drift.

Who should join

Roguelike players, systems-heavy testers, terminal enjoyers, sci-fi readers, and anyone willing to write blunt feedback after a death.