Controls
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| W A S D or arrows | Walk; drive the car; thrust and turn while flying |
| Mouse | Look around and steer. Click the game once to capture the mouse, or drag to look. |
| Shift | Run while walking; boost while driving or flying |
| Space | Jump over rocks, woodpiles and benches; lift off in the car; rise while flying |
| C | Sink while flying in space |
| E | Interact, talk, harvest, collect, and advance dialogue |
| 1–4 | Choose an answer in conversations |
| Tab | Open your inventory |
| Esc | Pause menu (sound, painterly filter, save and quit) |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom the camera in and out |
Follow the red diamonds
Your current objective is always shown in the top-left corner of the screen. In the world, a glowing red-orange diamond floats above whatever you need to reach next — a person to talk to, a crop to harvest, or your car. When you are close enough, a prompt such as E Talk or E Harvest appears at the bottom of the screen.
The top-right corner shows your Oxygen: three diamond slots that fill as you earn cores. Collect all three to bring your mother home the help she needs.
Step-by-step journey
- Home. Talk to your mother, then inspect the oxygen machine beside her bed. This starts your mission.
- Leave the house. Open the front door and walk down the stone path to the blue car. Press E to get in.
- Drive and lift off. Drive with W. Once you are moving, press Space to lift off into space.
- Find the signals. In space, markers point to three black holes. Fly close to one and press E to enter.
- Help each world. Complete the mission there to earn an Oxygen Core, then return to your car and choose Return to space.
- Home is calling. With all three cores, follow the blue signal back to your home planet, land, and bring the cores to your mother.
Tips for each world
Farm World — Harvest Day
Talk to the farmer by the barn first. The glowing sun-gourds grow in rings in the two crop fields. Your basket holds six at a time, so deliver to the cart beside the barn when it is full.
Knowledge World — Share Knowledge
Speak with the Archivist near the great library, then follow the ramp at the south edge of the plaza down to the Lower District. Each child asks a question; if an answer isn't right, you can simply try again.
Hunger World — Feed the World
The village is on the east shore of the lake. Gather fallen branches and driftwood, and pick up stones — no trees need to be cut. Repair the dock, then fish by pressing E when the moving line is inside the glowing zone.
System requirements
- A laptop or desktop computer with a keyboard and mouse
- A modern browser with WebGL: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari (latest versions)
- Hardware graphics acceleration enabled in your browser settings
Running slowly? Open the pause menu with Esc and turn off the painterly filter. Closing other browser tabs and plugging in your laptop also helps.