A listening station at the edge of the dark forest. Signals drift through your field. Some are civilizations. Some are not. Your job is to decide -- and fire before they find you.

How to play

Skip this if you'd rather figure it out yourself -- the in-game briefing covers everything.

You'll see a series of signals. Each is either a civilization or nature.

• Civilizations carve. They lock into a clean geometric form and hold it still for 3+ seconds.
• Nature churns. It never holds -- it wobbles, flashes, smears.

Drift markers (red dots on the edges) pulse when the signal is drifting. Bring your cursor onto a marker's line — column for the top edge, row for the left -- to steady it. Off the line, the signal slips.

Civilizations quiet their drift before the hold. Nature stays agitated throughout — another tell.

Firing

• Click to fire on a civilization you've identified.
• Your weapons need ~3 seconds of steady observation to lock coordinates. Fire too early and the fix slips.
• Fire on nature, or miss the civ's hold, and your exposure climbs.

Fail states

• Two wrong reads ends the shift.
• Too much exposure -- and they find you.

Good hunting, operator.