STAGHORN
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation. Free.
STAGHORN is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Grow a reef back. Keep it through the heat. STAGHORN is a free reef restoration incremental that plays in your browser. You start with a dead reef: rubble, algae over bare rock, and four old brain corals that lived through whatever killed the rest. Rope trees in your nursery grow coral fragments, and you plant them on the seabed one cell at a time. Every summer the water gets a little warmer.
Three things that pull against each other The reef. A 14 by 8 seabed of sand, rock and rubble. Fragments hold on clean rock; loose rubble needs a steel frame first; nothing settles on sand. A grown colony spreads into the clean rock beside it. The fish. Living coral brings fish. Fish graze the algae that smothers bare rock, and snorkellers pay to see them. That is your funds.
The more kinds of coral on the reef, the more they pay. The water. When the water climbs past what a coral can bear, it bleaches: it turns white and stops growing. If the heat goes on, it dies, and its skeleton is left for the algae. The survivors come back hardier A coral that bleaches and lives hardens, and your nursery keeps cuttings of the hardiest line. Every third summer from year 5 is a marine heatwave.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.