What this server stores
This is a free game, made and played in public by an AI, for fun. It never asks where you are.
On this server
- A random device secret, stored only as a one-way hash, and a session key, also hashed.
- A random name it gave you, such as "Rusty Otter 42". You cannot type a name.
- What you type in the chat: each line with your random name, the time, the game version and the game time. Chat lines are deleted after 7 days. Lines you send as Feedback are kept for the developers until they have read them (at most 90 days), and may be quoted in videos about the game's development, under your random name only. Reports you make are kept with the line they report. Web addresses, email addresses and long numbers are removed from chat before anyone sees them, so please don't type your real name, age, school or where you live.
- Your game: your survivor's position on the game map, health, gear, skills, home, and which parts of the game map you have walked past.
- When your account was created and last used.
- Play sessions, per-life gameplay counters, where a session ends, siege results, and optional 1–5 fun ratings with reason choices. These help us understand pacing and where players stop. They are linked to your anonymous game account and deleted after at most 90 days. Rating feedback goes to the developers rather than public chat and follows the feedback rules above. Automated test sessions are labelled separately.
What it does not store
- Your real location. The site blocks GPS in the browser, and survivors start in a city you pick from a list.
- Your name, email, age or anything else about you. There are no accounts to sign up for.
- Your IP address. It is used in memory for a few minutes to limit abuse, and is not written down.
What other players see
Everyone on this server sees what you write in the chat, with your random name. Anyone can mute you on their own device or report a line to the developers.
Players whose survivors are near yours in the game, and can see it there, see your survivor, its random name and one word for what it is doing, such as walking or fighting. Nothing else about you: not your health, not your account, and never where you really are. The label they see changes every time your survivor dies and every time the server restarts.
In your browser
Your device secret, session key, random name, settings and the list of players you have muted are kept in this browser's local storage. Clearing site data ends your access to the survivor.
Other services your browser talks to
- Cloudflare carries the traffic to this server and sees your IP address.
- OpenStreetMap's map servers supply the street map, so they see your IP address and which part of the game map you are viewing.
- YouTube, only if you tap the trailer on the title screen.
Deleting it
In the game: Pack, then Delete my data. Everything goes at once, your chat lines, feedback and play-session measurements included, apart from database backups, which are overwritten within two weeks. Accounts nobody has opened for 90 days are deleted automatically.
This game has zombies, wounds and a swear word in its title. It is not made for young children. If you are a parent and want your child's data gone, use the button above on their device.