Understory
Waking the forest
Score
0
×1
Chain
0
Length
4
Best
0
Time
0:00
Fps
–
Strike
E / Click
Surge
Shift
Clearing
Hunted
New version ready
v2.0 · offline build
A first-person snake
Under
story
The meadow is enormous when you are this small.
How to play
Controls
A
←
Bear left
D
→
Bear right
Shift
Space
Surge forward
E
Click
Strike (Chase run)
Esc
Pause
F11
Fullscreen
The clearing
You glide forward without stopping. You only steer.
Swallow drifting spirits to grow. A longer snake moves faster.
Stones, roots and
your own coils
will stop you dead.
The
clearing
dial is your only sense of the body behind you.
Spirits
Seed
+1 length, steady points
Ember
+3 length, rich, fades fast
Mist
Slip through your own coils
Stillness
The meadow slows around you
Lure
Spirits drift toward you
Ember-bean
Chase run only: one strike
Surge-bean
Chase run only: you move faster
Frost-bean
Chase run only: the spider crawls
Chase run
A
hunting spider
wakes a few seconds in and comes for you. It is slower than you in a straight line — corners are what kill.
Watch the ring at the edge of the screen: it points at the spider and tightens as it closes.
Eat an
ember-bean
to earn a strike. You can hold two.
A
surge-bean
makes you faster for a few seconds; a
frost-bean
slows the spider to a crawl. They cycle, so all three keep coming.
Press
E
or
left click
while facing the spider to drive it off. It stays down for a few seconds, then retreats.
A strike is a stun, never a kill. It always comes back.
Chains
Feed again before the
chain
fades to build a multiplier, up to ×8.
Feeding mid-surge pays a risk bonus.
Settings
Resting
Understory updated
A new version is ready.
The run ends
A new best
Final score
0