Maboroshi Caravan

Maboroshi Caravan is an auto-play simulation game about a caravan’s journey through a desert. You observe the caravan, watch over it, offer advice and sometimes help. Its journey progresses automatically, and the caravan chooses its own destinations; it continues traveling even when you are not watching.

The Chain Desert

Known as the Chain Desert, this cursed sandy land is said to bind the souls of the dead. Caravans appear and disappear like mirages as they travel through the desert to free those trapped souls. The game follows one such caravan and the observer watching over it.

The desert year lasts 354 days. Its appearance and the events the caravan encounters vary with the seasons, weather and time of day. The setting is one of dust, wilderness, camels and robbers, and the journey unfolds at a calm pace without shocking developments or heart-pounding moments.

Guide the caravan

You help the caravan manage the resources it gathers, grow in size and add members. Three activities form the core of this work:

• Materialization: materialize souls caught in the Chain Desert.
• Liberation: free materialized souls from the chain curse.
• Caravan leveling up: spend resources gathered during the journey to expand the caravan.

In towns, the caravan trades and hears stories from the residents. These include accounts about the town, useful information and personal stories. Other actions can make the journey more varied and efficient.

The journey’s rhythm

Maboroshi Caravan does not focus on efficiency or growth in the way an idle game might. It centers instead on watching the caravan’s everyday life and imagining its world as the journey continues.