Kindlewatch

Kindlewatch is a top-down survival game over five winter nights, from First frost to Deep winter, each 22:00 to 06:00 in about eight minutes and harder than the last. Walk the dark forest, pick up branches and heavy logs, carry them back and feed the campfire. Its light keeps the wolves out and its heat refills your warmth, which drains whenever you leave it. Wolves stalk you in the dark, crouch and lunge; a bite makes you drop your load. Three branches make a torch that keeps wolves back and slows the cold for 50 seconds. Snow squalls burn fuel faster but shake fresh branches loose. Dawn wins the night; a dead fire, freezing or three bites loses it. Every night pays kindling for five camp upgrades that stay: a stone ring, a wool coat, pitch torches, a carrying frame and a thick hide. It plays in the browser with a keyboard, mouse or touch.