Tin Can

Tin Can is a survival game about keeping an escape pod running after a transport ship's reactor goes critical. You play as a member of a Martian colony's space program, traveling aboard the ship toward new horizons when the disaster leaves you drifting in an escape pod without faster-than-light travel. To find a safe haven, you must diagnose and repair the pod's systems by dismantling, swapping and fixing individual components.

Maintain the pod

The pod's systems consist of interconnected components, each with a critical function. More than a dozen component types can fail in different ways: defective buttons may not respond properly, while faulty electrical connectors may not deliver enough power. Failures can arise organically from the simulated resources and components, so you need to trace problems back to their source. You can dismantle, swap and repair anything inside the pod.

Monitor your condition

Oxygen, carbon dioxide, atmospheric pressure, temperature and radiation are simulated as vital resources. Instead of a health bar, you experience medical symptoms: hypoxia, for example, makes you breathe faster and harder, blurs your vision and slows your movements until you lose consciousness. When systems fail in the dark, your heartbeat and shallow breathing can warn that death is near.

Use the manual

An onboard manual provides detailed information about the escape pod and its systems. You need to consult it to make sense of error codes and work out how to keep the pod functioning.

Prepare for cosmic events

Asteroid fields, nebulae and other cosmic events can damage the pod's systems. Flying near a star can cause overheating, while asteroids can pierce the hull. You need to anticipate these hazards and respond as they occur.