Sandman Quest

Every RPG has a bed you sleep in to get your health back. This one makes that bed the hardest decision in the game.

You have twenty-four hours a day and three things to spend them on. Sleep. Defend the town. Push out toward the thing that keeps sending the reinforcements.

You cannot do all three well. 

⚠ Read this or you will lose a day

You have to be able to get home.

Every screen you walk costs an hour going out and another hour coming back! So if you have 8 hours of travel, you can safely reach 4 screens out, not 8.

• You can only investigate, search, or clear something if you still have the hours to walk home from where you're standing.
• Any hours you have left when you get back to town carry over into gear. Hours you're still holding when you collapse are gone.
• Run out of hours in the field and you wake up in town, injured, having lost the day.

The field screen always tells you two numbers: hours left and home costs Nh. When those match, turn around. Thats the whole game.

You can walk further than you can return from. Nothing stops you, it just doesn't count for anything.

Controls

Mouse only. Click the sleep buttons, click an exit, click an action. Click anywhere to advance text.

Runs in the browser. 

Made for [B1T Jam 5]

Two colors, no exceptions. Everything drawn from scratch in Aseprite at 320×180. but i'm crediting here for tile references https://piiixl.itch.io/1-bit-patterns-and-tiles

Solo, in ten days, in Unity.

Credits

"Gothamlicious" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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"One Sly Move" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Northern Glade" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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sound effects from

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/