SWELTER
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
SWELTER is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Ice melts by its exposed faces. A block with ice on all four sides keeps almost all of itself. A block standing alone in the yard is gone in days. So the stack protects itself, and every block you cart away punches a hole in the thing that was keeping the others alive. Where you take it from is a real decision with a real number behind it. You run an icehouse in a hot colonial port.
Ships bring ice down from the north; you buy it, pack it into a straw-lined pit, and sell it to a town that wants it most on exactly the days it dies fastest. The year is the engine THE COOL: a ship lands every single day and ice is cheap. Fill the pit. THE RAINS: ships every other day, and the heat climbing. THE HEAT: ships four days apart and dear, and the town will pay almost anything.
THE FEVER: hot, and the heat does not let go. Heat drives the price and the melt, off the same number. That is the whole gamble: hold, and watch it go; sell, and open a hole in your own insulation. Fourteen improvements, each one moving a term of the arithmetic Sawdust under the floor. Straw in the gaps. A thatch roof over the yard. A cavity wall, then cork against the brick. A deeper pit, a wider yard.
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.