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A rainy clear-cut ridge with a fire lookout and a radio tower above a misty valley, a machine walking far off
The game · The world

A big world. It starts in the rain.

Pattern Retained is one large world made of regions, each with its own land, weather and machines. Everyone starts in the Rain Country. The rest opens up as the story does.

THE WORLD · ILLUSTRATIVE, NOT TO SCALEN ▲
YOU START HERE
REGION 01OPEN IN THE PLAYTESTThe Rain CountryPacific Northwest logging country, a little way into the future, with a machine's Grid laid over it. Cedar and clear-cuts, rivers and old mill towns.
Cedar BenchLV 1–3Tailgate FlatsLV 1–3Signal RidgeLV 1–3Millrace BottomsLV 3–6The CrossroadsLV 3–6Burnt TimberLV 3–6Drowned FlatsLV 6–10Long GradeLV 6–10Pylon CountryLV 6–10
ITS NINE AREAS, NORTH AT THE TOP · AREA NAMES ARE PLACEHOLDERS
WEATHERRain, fog and the odd clear nightHOMECamp Seven, up the logging road
02Weather

Rain is this region's weather. Not the world's.

Each region has its own. The Rain Country's is wet, grey and low, with the odd night the cloud breaks.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Rain and fog

Real volumetric cloud over the valleys, rain that soaks you, puddles that answer a step or a shot.

IN THE PLAYTEST

A shared clock

One clock for the whole world. A day is about seven and a half hours, so you will play mornings and nights.

IN THE PLAYTEST

Shelter

A roof keeps the rain and the cold off you. A fire and a bed let you rest well.

PLANNED · THE STORY

Storms

In the story, storms knock out the machines' robotics on land they hold too long.

Camp Seven's cabin at dusk, lit from inside, a radio tower behind it
CONCEPT ART · CAMP SEVEN
03Where you start

Camp Seven.

A logging camp up the road, run off-grid by the people who never took the Link. It has a fire, a radio room and Zach, who will show you how to stay alive and then tell you why you should bother.

It is where the story starts, and where most survivors put up their first walls.

See it in the gallery
04Keep exploring

Keep going.

OVERVIEWHow it playsFrom bare hands to a pack fight, and a camp to come home to.EXPLOREMACHINESMeet 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.EXPLORE
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