There is a blackout in your area. It's midnight and you are all alone when you look through your security camera to notice - a dark figure starring at you, seeking to get in.

You'll need to turn on and refuel your generator to keep the malicious intruder away with lights or bolt the windows shut. Survive until the light of a new day may rescue you from the darkness.

How To Play

Controls: Keyboard, Mouse

  • MOUSE xy-position - look around
  • WASD - movement
  • AD - switch between previous/next camera when at the Computer
  • SHIFT - sprint
  • E - interact
  • E, hold -  interact over time, like when refueling the Generator
  • TAB - show/hide Wrist Watch

Gameplay Advice: Survive until 6 AM

  • Time - Check any of these to know the current hour:
    • Wrist Watch
    • Clock (next to the Computer)
    • Sound cue every hour
  • Discover - Find out the intruder's next target room:
    • Computer - check out the security cameras
    • Windows - look out
  • Survive - Fend off the intruder from a room:
    • Light Switches - turn on to light up the room
    • Planks - use to board up windows
  • Energy - Consumed by all electrical devices:
    • Generator - refuel to gain energy
    • Computer with security cameras - avoid to save energy
    • Light Switches - turn off to save energy
    • Maximum energy used at a time - avoid turning on too many lights at once!
  • Win the game to unlock the Underwater Level

Credits

This game was made in 24 hours for the Blackthornprod "Pass the Game" Jam in which developers continue a game made and provided by a chosen developer from the previous jam day. Therefore this game was made by all developers who contributed to this version of Rural Blackout:

Related VersionsDevelopers
Rural Blackout Day 1 Rugbug Redfern YoutTube, Dubscr YoutTube
Rural Blackout Day 2 Falcon89
Rural Blackout Day 3 Making Dragons
Rural Blackout Day 4 (This page) putti Twitter
Rural Blackout Day 5 Meritcoding
Rural Blackout Day 6 Fumpledump Twitter

Assets

Source Code

  • Unity Version 2021.3.27f1 
  • Blender is required to see the models

Update Log for this version by putti

  • The ambient light changes colour from 5 to 6 AM to illustrate the sunrise
  • An ingame hour passes double as fast (easy to tweak scale var)
  • Added sounds for the wrist watch and when bolting the windows
  • Added diegetic UI for carrying a plank and limiting it to 1 (easy to tweak max var)
  • Updated interaction prompt texts for consistency
  • Updated the UI in menu screens slightly
  • Added some developer cheats (atm deactivated on the player)
  • Fixed an error when the roomsWithoutLights list is null or empty
  • Fixed an error when the SecuritySystem is destroyed

Download

Download
Windows 52 MB
Download
Source Code 76 MB

Install instructions

  1. Unpack the .zip file
  2. Launch the "RuralBlackout.exe" in the root directory
  3. If you get a Windows security alert click "More info" and then "Run anyway"

Thanks for downloading and have fun!

Comments

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(+1)

Hey, i made it online multiplayer for day 6!

I saw it, it's pretty coolio!

(+1)

Nice I like the polishes you did!

Thank you!

(+1)

haven't played the actual game yet but the game page is very nice! :)

Thank you, it's not too many new additions but mainly some polish that felt like it needed to be done at some point.

(+2)

Thanks for building on our game!! The ambient light changing color is a really nice touch.

(+1)

Thanks for letting me touch it <3. Unfortunately, I didn't get to much. Your base version was amazing.