a LowPoly Dynamic game
The old world has gone dark. What is left is a river, trees and two survivors: it is up to you to turn them into a village.
Version 0.3.180 of November 10, 2026 · in development · Windows and Android
Autonomous is a survival and rebuilding game, isometric and low poly. The old world has stopped: no power, no oil, jammed roads. Two survivors leave the road and find a river, trees, and no one else. You lay out the building sites; they do the rest, day after day, season after season, generation after generation.
Two settlers arrive at the edge of a map drawn from a seed: a river, a ford, forests, scree, sometimes a pond. You lay out the first cabin; they fell the trees and build it log by log. Then come houses in several models, workshops, a school, a dining hall, baths… up to a village of about forty villagers, for now.
The days grow shorter, the trees turn red, the snow falls. In winter nothing grows; on cold nights every house burns wood; frost destroys any crops left in the field. Summer prepares for winter, and it is short.
Berries, fishing with a spear, a cast net and traps, fields dug, sown and watered (even irrigated by canals), a smokehouse, an oven and bread. Fish runs out, fresh food spoils: you have to store, vary and plan ahead.
Each settler has a temperament, a morale, friends and rivals, sometimes a partner. Children are born, grow up and go to school; the elders tell stories, then pass away. Everyone ages a year each season.
Some mornings, someone is waiting at the gate: welcome them or turn them away, sometimes with a whole family. Mason, weaver, mechanic, electrician, forester, fisher, herbalist, doctor, teacher… each key trade unlocks buildings, and the know-how leaves with the last one.
Beyond the map: farms, a gas station, a town, a supermarket, a hospital… You send a team there on a map drawn in ink, with food for the road. They come back with canned food, seeds, remedies, steel tools, scrap, and sometimes what it takes to repair a van.
No new oil: everything comes from the ruins. Solar panels, batteries, motors, wind turbines, a bike generator, a radio… the electrician hooks them up. On the river, a paddle wheel turns a mill.
The village keeps its memory: a log of events, a chronicle of the year with its curves, a year-end card, graves with their epitaphs. You name the village; the river, the fords and the fields have names of their own.
Views of the game itself, by day and by night, in all four seasons. Tap an image to see it larger.
You pick the difficulty for each new game. The first launch opens only the gentlest; the others open as you play.
For learning: no hygiene, no clothing, no illness, and no one starves or leaves “at the end of their rope”. The only level open at the start.
Clothing and the weaver come in, hunger that kills, and the departures of those who have had enough. Opens after a first winter survived.
The full game: hygiene, illness, everything included. Opens after a first year completed on Normal.
One box per mechanic: clothing, hygiene, illness, starvation, departures “at the end of their rope”. Opens together with Normal.
Variants also unlock from one game to the next, for good: starting in spring or fall, with a lean bag, or as a family with a six-year-old child.
The game exists in French and in American English, chosen in the Options.
Autonomous asks for no account and no e-mail address. To improve the game, it sends figures about the games played, which you can turn off; exactly what this service does is in the privacy policy.
How far games go, population and food day after day, what happens in them as codes, the windows opened, errors, smoothness, the device in broad bands. Never a name, a text you typed, or your IP address.
In the Options: “Game data” to stop sending anything, “Erase my data” to erase from the server everything tied to your installation's number. That number is drawn at random and renewed every 13 months.
No cookies, no trackers, no analytics, no font or resource loaded from a third party: everything comes from this server.
Autonomous is in development: a new version comes out often, and this page always gives the latest.
Version 0.3.180 of November 10, 2026, 59 MB. 64-bit Windows PC.
Download the Windows archive (.zip)To update, replace the folder with the new version's: your games live outside it, so they are kept.
Version 0.3.180 of November 10, 2026, 54 MB. Android 6.0 or newer.
Download the Android APKTo update, install the new version over the old one.
Every new version, with what's new: the RSS feed. For assistants and robots: the site in Markdown and its llms.txt.