By morning the street is full of them. By the third night the lights go out.
GAME LINK - https://vengstudio.itch.io/sublevel
You are nobody here: no keys, no authority, just a gym member. Eight strangers, one receptionist with the master card and a personal trainer who thinks he should be in charge. Keep them alive for seven days, using what a gym has: barbells, plates, lockers, a swimming pool full of water, spin bikes that can power the lights if someone pedals.
What you do
- Barricade with what's there. Benches, lockers, barbells and plates go into the stair and against the glass. Mass holds; the glass cracks anyway.
- Stay quiet, stay dark. The infected come to noise and light. A dropped plate is heard from the street. Turn the lights off, cover the glass with towels.
- Tape things together. Kettlebell + resistance band = flail. Broom + glass shard = spear. Barbell + plate + duct tape = sledge. Twelve combos, discovered by trying or by listening to people.
- Earn the right to lead. You start with no say. Rules, the roster and the master card come only as the group starts to trust you. Lose them and the trainer takes half of them upstairs.
- Make the calls nobody wants. Who stays, who leaves, what to do with the one who was bitten. Everyone has an opinion, and they remember.
- Water, food, power. The tap dies on day four. The pool is water if someone boils it. The bikes are light if someone rides them.
Seven days. One building. Two floors. No respawn of the people you lose.
This is an alpha. The story is complete from the first morning to the seventh day, but the game is rough: placeholder low-poly art, bugs, balance that still moves. I'm putting it out to learn what works and what doesn't.
Please tell me (in the comments below):
- Retell what happened to your group, in your own words.
- Where did you get stuck or confused?
- What made you laugh, and what annoyed you?
The game also writes a short log of each session (no personal data): open %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\SUBLEVEL in Explorer and attach the playtests and logs folders if you're willing to share them.
GAME LINK - https://vengstudio.itch.io/sublevel
