Dryas: The Sunken Age

A free browser strategy game set in 10,986 BCE. You are one of the learned immortals of the world before the flood. You have heard of Sanctuary, a refuge above a ruined city. Its survivors have built a basic settlement, but are barely getting by. They recognize you and ask for your help.

What you do

• Explore the nearby ruins, learn what happened to the survivors’ city, and help Sanctuary rebuild with fields, halls and restored knowledge.
• Choose the Founder Cohort's specialty once: scholar, engineer, surgeon, warden or diver. There is only one cohort, and it cannot be replaced.
• Recover the knowledge of the drowned world: writing, agronomy, hydraulics, bronze, star charts, the Founders' instruments.
• Keep or trade away the Old Ways at every council, and watch what your people become over 200 turns and 400 years.
• Meet rival founder civilizations, hold the Concord of the Shelf or break it, face raiders and sieges, and feel the cost of every war.
• Play on in the long ages to 986 BCE, through the first towns, the first writing and the first kings.

How it plays

Turn-based, hex-by-hex, in the style of Civilization: move companies, work the land, pick research and production, answer councils. Real 3D terrain and buildings with a free-orbiting camera, hand-painted art, and a chronicle that grades what you rebuilt. Runs in any modern browser on desktop or phone; nothing to download and no account.

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