Impact Winter

NO WAY ARE WE GOING OUT IN THAT

- Martin Kitts

With the world plunged into eternal winter following an asteroid strike, there’s no hope for Jacob and his small band of survivors. Until, that is, they find a strange little robot drone that triggers a message: in 30 days, help is coming.

As the timer ticks down, so the group’s health, stamina and morale depletes. Holed up in a half-buried church, they watch as the fire burns out and their meagre supplies dwindle to nothing. The only way to ensure the rescuers aren’t just collecting corpses is for Jacob to venture out alone into the frozen wasteland and find sustenance in the ruined old world. It takes a hardy soul to survive out there, and Jacob is so tough he doesn’t even bother wearing trousers to protect him from the waist-deep snow. An overcoat and a pair of walking boots will do him fine. Hard as nails he may be, but his quest for survival is constantly undermined by the four helpless simpletons back home, who won’t even remember to feed themselves unless he takes food and water from the store and distributes it among their individually named ration crates. It’s like leaving food out for the cat before you go away for a weekend (and yes, they come straight over and eat it all as soon as you put it on the floor).