Beyond Dawn

Beyond Dawn is a single-player exploration game set in the world of Liminal Protocol. After dark, you leave your shelter to search abandoned buildings and rooftops, then try to bring salvage home before sunrise. You can bank what you find, improve your equipment and decide whether to venture farther. The city lies above an increasingly unfamiliar network of caverns.

Explore the city

You climb through the city, cross rooftops using a winch or Vector Jets, avoid patrols and search for salvage. Extract to keep what you have found, or continue into another district. Practice rooms let you learn the controls without putting your supplies at risk.

The world is rendered in three-dimensional ASCII, with lighting, depth and movement. Your Lattice implant changes what you can see: shallow levels reveal navigation, while deeper ones expose disturbances and hidden records. You can decode discoveries, pin a route and save recovered clues in your archive.

Return to your lair

Your lair serves as both home and workshop. You can arrange its living space, expand into the caves and prepare for another departure. Use the Foundry to upgrade equipment and choose a movement rig.

A lower hatch leads through four connected depths, from service galleries to freight fissures and an entrance beneath Liminal Corp. Returning alive with evidence and specimens opens further investigations.

Investigate across time

The Observation Station connects the city, the Research Lab and Wasteland. In the lab, you work with physical instruments to restore a receiver circuit, study a mineral core and reconstruct a signal from fragments of glass.

Wasteland explores a possible future of the same world. You follow a survivor's radio requests, recover supplies and face threats in ruined streets and a lower facility. Repairing equipment in an earlier era lets you select an altered future and see its consequences, such as an emergency locker, a drained storeroom or a working underground return lift.

Current activities

The game includes repeatable city expeditions, shelter upgrades and decorating, connected cavern missions, Wasteland missions, laboratory activities and an archive of the story you have recovered. These systems and their pacing are still being developed, and the complete story is not finished. Beyond Dawn is a standalone game in the Liminal Protocol setting; the separate Liminal Protocol campaign is not included.