TRENCH WARS: THE DESCENT is a solo or two player grid based survival game that plays on any crossword puzzle.
Time: 5 min - 15 min
The year is 2084. Decades of climate collapse turned the surface into a scarred oven. The air grew thick and poisonous and lead to slow burial. Those who could afford it did the only logical thing and went below. First came reinforced sub-basements soon followed by sprawling bunker cities carved beneath the ruins of old capitals. Air scrubbers. Hydroponic towers. Sealed armories.
For the rich, this was survival but for everyone else, the surface became a death sentence. The wealthy built walls within walls to keep the poor out. Automated gun platforms rose in every corridor and grid-based artillery linked to seismic sensors covered every junction. The bunker cities became labyrinths of paranoia. They were safe only for those with the right codes and the right bloodline.
But even bunkers can’t hold forever. The suffering above boiled into desperation until starving crowds stole tunnel drills and breached the outer walls. No army marched. Just hungry people. The rich panicked and did what they always do - they left. Private spacecraft fired from deep silos. The billionaires fled toward orbiting habitats and rumors of Mars and abandoned everything. The reinforced walls, the stockpiled food, the water reclamation tanks and the climate-sealed clothes. All of it left behind and still humming. All of it still guarded by the same automated heavy artillery security system built to kill.
Now those bunker cities are tombs of plenty. High risk, high reward. A single run could feed a settlement for a year. That is why you are here.
You are a Digger. A soldier sent into the ruins to traverse the grid between the abandoned bunkers, the black squares. Start at the upper left corner and reach the lower right evacuation point. The weapons hunt you by your coordinates. Every step risks incoming fire. Every mistake doubles the fire. There is no retreat.
Only down.
