The Quiet Apocalypse

The Quiet Apocalypse is an adventure-based walking simulator set in the near future, as humanity enters the final stages of its decline toward extinction. You join Doc Hendersen on a difficult trek across the Fairborne Mountains after a carrier pigeon brings news that a woman in the isolated settlement of Communion Creek is pregnant—the first child expected in the mountains in fifteen years. Doc knows he must inoculate the baby as soon as it is born, but rumours spread and dark forces begin to close in.

The Fairborne Mountains

You navigate more than 400 km² of stylised wilderness, using a compass and map to find your way through punishing terrain and difficult weather. The landscape includes rolling hills and moorland, dense temperate forest, towering canyons, arid deserts and long-dormant volcanic mountains, lit by a dynamic day-and-night cycle. The world is presented without loading screens, though streaming landscape data can cause occasional brief frame-rate jitters.

Missions and exploration

The story takes about 7–10 hours and follows 60 handcrafted missions. You can continue exploring after finishing the story, and find secrets and solve puzzles as you uncover the backstories and histories of 45 residents of the Fairborne Mountains.

Uncover the mystery

The story’s 45,000 words are spread across 150 diaries, books, letters and journals. Piece together these records to unravel a mystery that has remained dormant for fifteen years.