u/TheEpicpp

I’m just messing around with a very early prototype for a Silo-inspired underground colony/base-building game.

Right now I’m mostly exploring the concept: managing people, resources, machinery, and exploring deeper levels inside one huge underground structure.

Still very rough and a lot will probably change, but I figured this might be a good place to share it.

Key features/direction:

• Manage individual citizens, jobs, skills, and needs
• Power, water, food, and resource management
• Build and maintain machinery throughout the structure
• Explore abandoned and damaged levels
• Discover artifacts, hidden areas, and clues about what happened
• Factions, politics, demands and rebellion
• Player decisions with long-term consequences
• Multiple possible outcomes depending on how you lead the colony

Prototype: https://theepicpp.itch.io/below

I've been working on this little prototype for a while and figured this was probably the right place to share it.

Silo was obviously a big inspiration for the setting, but I'm trying to take it in its own direction. It's more of a colony survival / management game where you manage the people living underground, keep the infrastructure running, and gradually explore the abandoned levels around you.

Right now you start on Level 46 with 16 people who have elected you as their leader. Something happened in the levels above, the staircase going up has been destroyed, and further down parts of the structure are flooded.

You have to get power, water and food running, assign people to jobs, expand the colony and send expeditions into other levels. I'm also starting to build out a much bigger mystery/lore side around what actually happened and what this place really is.

It's still very much an alpha prototype, so there are definitely rough edges, but it's finally at a point where it actually feels like a game.

Would be really curious to hear what Silo fans think of the direction.

For those curious, the prototype is playable here: https://theepicpp.itch.io/below

Got an idea, found a bug, or just want to get in touch? =>belowgame@proton.me