Mariupol · 2022
A port city of 430,000, encircled in 7 days.
"On day 6, the bakery stopped opening. That was when I knew."
SIMULATION CLOCK 00:00 / 30 days
A TEXT-BASED CIVILIAN CRISIS SIMULATOR
You are here. Survive 30 days.
A free, text-based game where you become a real civilian in a real conflict zone — and find out if you'd make it through 30 days.
Choose a city to begin:
Six cities. Real choices. No fiction.
Every scenario is grounded in archival survivor testimony — not editorial imagination. Click any card to see its Day 1.
Donetsk · 2014
Eastern Ukraine. The first artillery war of the decade.
"The second wave of evacuations was the last safe window. We missed it."
Beirut · 2020
A port explosion and 2,750 tons of confiscated ammonium nitrate.
"We pooled water with four families. We all made it."
Khartoum · 2023
A capital of 1.5 million, split by two warring generals.
"I had two routes memorized. We used the second one."
Tehran · 2025
A post-strike civil crisis. Power, water, and trust collapse together.
"I had a go-bag in the hall closet, packed on day one, never opened since."
Sumy · 2026
Northern Ukraine. The drone-and-glide-bomb era begins.
"I waited for the second alert. By the third, the road was gone."
Three decisions a day. Eight minutes total.
A full run fits a single doom-scroll break — and stays with you for days after.
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Pick your city and your profile
Choose from six real conflict zones and four civilian profiles — mother of two, university student, hospital medic, or pensioner living alone. Each profile starts with one resource and one liability.
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Decide your day
Each of 30 in-game days presents 2–3 short prompts in plain text — about evacuation, trust, silence, supplies, and family — with three options each. No timers, no points, no punishment.
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Reach your outcome
At the end of 30 days, the game shows your survival path, the day you would have died or evacuated, one real historical parallel, and one civilian lesson that conflict survivors actually wished they'd known.
Quick check: would you survive week one?
Three questions. About ninety seconds. No commitment.
Question 1 of 3
Day 1. A curfew is announced at 6pm. Do you:
What 0 other civilians did.
Live cohort dashboard, computed once per day from a static historical database.
% who evacuated by day 5
% who waited for more information on day 1
Average day of death or successful evacuation
Day 17
of 30
Survival outcome distribution
Survival rate by day of first evacuation decision
Day of first decision → 30-day survival %
58% peak around day 5
Updated 3 minutes ago
What survivors actually wish they'd known.
Six lessons drawn from the same testimony the game is built on. Screenshot any of them.
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In Mariupol, civilians who left by day 5 had a 4x survival rate.
— Mariupol Memorial Oral History, 2023.
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In Donetsk, the second wave of evacuations (day 10–15) was the last safe window.
— Donetsk civilian archive, 2015.
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In Beirut, neighbors who pooled resources survived twice as often as those who hoarded.
— Beirut Urban Lab, 2021.
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In Khartoum, those who memorized two routes out of their neighborhood left 3 days earlier on average.
— Sudan Doctors' Union testimonies, 2023.
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In Tehran, civilians who prepared a go-bag on day 1 left 11 days faster.
— Iran civil society debriefings, 2025.
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Across all six scenarios, trust in one neighbor predicted survival more than supply stockpiling.
— Aggregated testimony, 2014–2026.
Built on real testimony. Not a news feed.
Every scenario is grounded in archival survivor testimony, not editorial imagination. The same database that powers the game also powers the lesson cards, the cohort dashboard, and the survival scoring. Built once on a static archive, runs forever.