Camouflet

Camouflet is a short, tense first-person mining game set during the great war. You play as a recaptured miner sent alone into a fighting tunnel beneath the front lines. You must recover lost weaponry, reopen passages and place explosives at your objectives; completing the task overturns your conviction. The game lasts 1–2 hours.

Dig through the front

You shape the tunnel network with a shovel. Long, straight passages leave you nowhere to hide, while alcoves and escape tunnels can give you time to get away or draw your pistol. As you dig toward enemy soldiers, they dig toward you.

The tunnel was once an active fighting mine. You can search for bullets, grenades and camouflet charges, using your map to find places that may hold weapons or explosives. You need to plant explosives at enemy foundations, and some caches may be unknown to your officers.

Use sound and explosives

Chalk in the Arras tunnels is quiet to dig through, but gunfire, bombs and striking wooden beams with your shovel make noise. Soldiers instinctively search for you when they hear you. Carefully timed camouflets can kill multiple enemies at once and save ammunition.

Discover tunnel 397

Military plans, miners’ notes and frantic scratches reveal why tunnel 397 is called “À nulle part” (“To nowhere”). Notes can also provide information about your task underground.

Enemy soldiers are not the only danger. Cave-ins, traps and gas leaking from the walls threaten your passage through the tunnels. Watch your surroundings and look for blurred vision or distorted hearing.

Manage your supplies

The resources you collect are finite and are lost when used. You can choose to lose ammunition on death for a greater challenge. The only safe way to keep ammunition is not to pick it up: you can arm yourself now or leave it for the next convict.