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THE GAME

Survive the machine. Then take it apart.

Pattern Retained is a co-op survival game in one shared world that keeps going. You start at Camp Seven with your bare hands, build up from wood and stone, and hunt the machines for the parts you need to get stronger.

HOW IT PLAYSTHE TEARDOWNSURVIVALTOGETHERMACHINESSKILLSTHE WORLD
01How it plays

Gather. Build. Hunt.
Survive together.

Each of these was built and played on its own until it was fun, then the next one went in.

Zach at Camp Seven's gate with a lantern in the rain
CONCEPT ART · LEAVING CAMP SEVEN 01 / 04
02The teardown

Every machine is a kit of parts.

Take a machine apart the right way and it pays you back. Clean takes give better salvage. Sloppy hits spoil it.

Zach prying an armour plate off a fallen machine in the rain
PARTS SCAN · PLATE01 PLATE
ONE FORELEG, THREE WAYS IT CAN GOPLACEHOLDER NUMBERS
PRISTINEPlate popped whole1 PLATE · 1 WIRE
WORNDented2 SCRAP
SCRAPMangled1 SCRAP
Open the Salvage Ledger
03Survival

Hungry, cold and wet.
Never helpless.

Survival here is pressure, not a countdown. Look after yourself and the work goes faster; neglect it and the night gets long.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Food and water

Pick berries and mushrooms, drink from springs and creeks, cook at a fire. Three food slots in your pack eat for you. Hunger and thirst wear you down, but on their own they never kill you.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Cold, Wet and Rested

Rain soaks you and the night chills you. Get under a roof, by a fire, and you rest well. No rain falls and no cold reaches you indoors.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Stamina

Sprinting, swinging, rolling and jumping all cost stamina, shown beside your crosshair. Endurance grows it.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Your pack

Forty-two slots and a carry limit, four weapon slots, an equipment screen and your survivor turning in the middle. Sort it, or quick-deposit into a chest.

IN THE PLAYTEST

A camp of your own

Press B and pick a piece: walls, roofs, beds, a fire. Craft at the Workbench and the Forge, and dismantle anything for its materials back.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Day and night

A day lasts about seven and a half hours. Nights are dark, and your lantern lights the way and gives you away.

04Together

One world. It keeps going without you.

You don't host a lobby. You log in to First Rain, the official world, and the people you meet on the road are other players.

IN THE PLAYTESTSixteen at onceFirst Rain holds up to 16 survivors. Each server sets its own limit.
IN THE PLAYTESTParty upInvite anyone on the world. Shared XP, tags you can see through the trees, and friendly fire.
IN THE PLAYTESTStart a crewA name, a tag, an emblem and a colour, kept in the world. Chat by party, crew or everyone.
NEXT BUILDDays survivedEach survivor counts their own days on the world's shared clock.
05Keep exploring

Keep going.

MACHINESMeet what walks First RainThree jobs on one body, and how to start on each.EXPLORESKILLSEleven, trained by doingChop and Woodcutting goes up. Every level, a stat point.EXPLORETHE WORLDA big world. It starts in the rain.Regions with their own land, weather and machines.EXPLORE
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