Stiks: a text-based survival game in the Hive for blind players

An ordinary day. You fall asleep at home and wake up in the Hive, a world stitched together from pieces of ours. Almost everyone around you is infected and will soon turn into creatures. Your task is to survive: find gear, fight, drink zhivchik — the spore brew that keeps the immune alive — and reach a stab, a safe settlement of immune people.

The game is currently available in Russian only.

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What the game has

• One world for all players: the same creatures, bodies and loot, other immune survivors nearby, squads, chat and trade through a stab guarantor.
• A huge world: many regions, each with hundreds of clusters — cities, villages, highways, factories, forests, fields, steppes, snowy and sandy deserts. Every cluster reboots on its own schedule, from one to eight hours, and whoever stays inside during a reboot dies.
• Creatures eat and evolve: from slow shamblers to runners, stompers, biters, rubers and elites. Infected animals follow the same path and keep the shape of the beast they grew from.
• People of the Hive live their own lives: raiders, strongs, murs (bandits), the Children of Stiks, the Institute, bots, nolds and outsiders. Every immune person has a nickname, and every stab has its own residents.
• Character growth in the spirit of the «Cheater» books: stats that grow with use, gifts, spore trophies — sporans, peas and pearls.
• 99 lives: after death you wake up in another cluster, and when the last life is gone the character dies forever. There is also an iron mode with a single life.
• Cars, horses and boats, clans with their own stab, caravans, and newcomers you can rescue — they become your godchildren.
• Made for screen readers: everything is text and buttons, the log shows the latest events, hotkeys are off by default. Creatures, weapons and places have their own sounds; sighted players get pictures that the screen reader skips.

How to play

You need a free site account: the same account as in the other games of The Blind Can. Your character is stored on the server, so you can play from any device. Other players see your nickname and your character’s nickname, and nobody sees your login.

When you create a character, choose the sex, the profession they had before the Hive (soldier, doctor, truck driver, hunter or athlete) and the difficulty: an ordinary start far from the Inferno, a hard start closer to it, or hardcore right in the Inferno. Then you are on your own: search the place where you woke up, find a weapon, look for a stab and leave the cluster before it reboots.

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