Mirebound

The Kesh Recovery

Kesh IV was a Vashti Combine seedbank until the containment stacks failed. What escaped was the bloom, a fungal-neural mat that colonises nervous systems and circuits with equal appetite. The colonists became the drowned. The Combine's repair drones never powered down — they simply began repairing the bloom instead. You contract to the Ashcroft Line: six drops, then you are out.

Runs in the browser. Headphones strongly recommended.

You cannot see far

Fog eats light at fourteen metres. The sonar ping is how you read the world — echoes are pitch-coded by contact type and delayed by range, so a low late return is something big and distant. Headphones strongly recommended; the mix is fully positional.

Noise is the other half

The marsh hunts by sound. Running and firing carry much further than walking, and the surface underfoot changes how loud you are — open water is loud, dry hummock is quiet. Every ping you fire tells them where you are too.

Between drops

You return to the Ashcroft Relay: contract board, quartermaster, armoury bench, med bay, records terminal. Each has its own sound so the station can be navigated by ear. Salvage pays, the relay sells ammunition and hull upgrades, and levelling raises your hull and shield capacity.

Keyboard

Mouse

Controller

Chat

Press / to open the message box.

Incoming messages are spoken aloud and have their own sound, and players are announced as they come online and go offline.

Accounts and saving

Create an account on the account page, then claim a character in the game with /register yourname. Your credits, level, stock and contract progress save to that account, so you can sign in from any browser and pick up where you left off.

Accessibility

The sonar plate is role="application", so keys reach the game directly. Press V once to swap the built-in voice for a live region your own screen reader announces.

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