You are an astronaut stranded at a hostile space station. Outside your ship, oxygen is limited, creatures attack in hordes, and alien machinery holds secrets worth risking another expedition to discover.

Build powerful equipment from reusable components, uncover unexpected uses for the station's machines, and bring rescued people home to your ship. Ordinary weapons fire mostly automatically, leaving you to move through danger and choose when to use special abilities. Your journal pauses the game while you examine clues and make connections.

Death returns you and everything you carry to the ship. The station rearranges itself, while some changes you made endure. One of its deepest puzzles is learning to connect the entire station into a lasting whole.

The leading promise is **discovering something incredible**, followed by **making a ridiculous build work**. Hordes, expressive equipment and mystery must all be substantial parts of playing.

Read these four pages in order, or start with the subject you want to explore:

1. [The game and an expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/The%20Game) — your immediate goal, a dangerous outing, and its discoveries and payoffs.

The [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) records the premise and selected directions. Detailed references are linked from the relevant subject pages.