Daedalus

You wake up alone, halfway to a planet you don't remember being sent to.

You are Daedalus — a probe-AI built to remember. The crew is gone. The mission log is mostly corrupted. The only thing still working is the part of you that knows how to land.

Play (~10 min)

• Wake up — orient toward the sun, charge your batteries, bring your instruments online one by one.
• Find your orbit — read your trajectory, time-warp through the slow parts, then slow yourself at the low point of your orbit (burn retrograde at periapsis) to shape your descent.
• Land — match vertical and horizontal speed under threshold, inside the marked landing zone. No game over: a failed landing respawns you in orbit.

Controls

• A / D — rotate
• Space — main thrust
• , / . — time warp (1× / 10× / 100×)
• F — fullscreen (browser embed)

Mouse not required. Headphones recommended but not required — every critical state is on the HUD.

Theme — Machines

You don't play a machine — you are one, waking up. The whole game is the calibration of an instrument: solar alignment, gyroscopic control, retrograde burns, terminal descent. Every system you unlock is a piece of yourself coming back online. The machine isn't the setting — it's the protagonist.

Made for Gamedev.js Jam 2026

• Solo entry, ~5 working days
• Unity 6000.4.3f1 + URP, WebGL only
• All audio synthesised in-engine, no sample packs
• All design, gameplay code, and audio authored by me. Claude Code used for code review and refactoring passes only.

---

Thanks for playing. If it landed for you, leave a rating during the voting period — every rating moves the entry toward category eligibility.