Warrented Humanity

Warrented Humanity is a survival game about responding to a virus that turns infected mammals into cannibals and zombies. You fight and scavenge during the day, then manage your shelter at night, working against a time limit to help humanity survive and find a permanent cure. Each game can differ through random item and enemy spawns and NPC interactions, with up to 50 hours of gameplay.

Health and morale

Your character cannot die. If your health or morale runs out, you flee to your shelter and face the consequences of your choices; the game ends only when time runs out. Morale matters as much as health: killing healthy or curable humans instead of incapacitating them greatly lowers morale, especially early in the game. Taking damage and getting stung by bees develops courage and raises your maximum morale, while low morale can make you panic and flee after only a few bites and scratches.

You also need to manage short-term problems such as cuts, hunger and fatigue before they develop into infection, starvation and sleep deprivation. These longer-term conditions affect your maximum health, stamina and morale.

Day and night

What you do at night affects your efficiency during the day, while your daytime fighting and scavenging determine your options at night. The game separates these periods: daytime focuses on action, while nights are for slower-paced shelter management.

Combat is action-based, and the outcome of hits, parries and damage depends on the body part struck, weapon condition, armour and your character’s stats. You can name your hero and choose the colour of his car.

Your shelter

You can bring survivors into your shelter by helping people during daytime excursions, or by incapacitating and abducting infected humans and treating them with antibodies harvested from your own body. More survivors provide extra help with crafting, maintenance and upgrades, but also mean more people to feed. You can manage them directly or automate routine tasks.

Your plan includes upgrading the shelter to house more survivors, establishing a safe, self-sustaining colony and collecting enough tissue samples to trace the virus’s origin and find a permanent cure.

Scavenge and unlock

Locks of different types and sizes stand between you and important resources. With the right tool, you can pick, hack or pry them open through minigames whose difficulty depends on your stats. You can also use a key or enter a combination you have found.

The inventory uses a “Will take time” system: you still manage how much you carry and deal with encumbrance, but do not have to run back and forth through a stage to retrieve items you dropped or left behind. What you take, and when, can have game-altering consequences.