Beginner Guide
Minute-by-minute route for the first two hours, and four ways new survivors stop breathing.
Launch-day wire
- 09-01 14:20First sub-2:20 speedrun appears (oxygen pipeline), +9 min over second place
- 09-01 15:05"Door won't open" help posts peak; one answer everywhere: coffin plating
- 09-01 16:00"Hearse drifting" goes viral in the Chinese community, 100k+ meme views
- 09-01 18:30Hidden-ending first breadcrumb: full tag collection unlocks decoder's complete text
Minute by minute, first run
Min 0-10: the tutorial is a mine
The tutorial asks for 3 scrap; the training cabin holds 11. Take all. Every piece has a name for two chapters.
Min 10-25: two bottles before any EVA
Craft 2 improvised O2 bottles before the first long walk. 100% of first suffocations were one-bottle expeditions.
Min 25-40: know your coffin
Docking isn't resting, it's going home. Refill, save, craft — all at the coffin. Treat it as a portable checkpoint and the design clicks.
Min 40-70: grabber or visor
The first fork. Feel vs. safety both have cases (see strategy) — but skipping both means a chapter-two restart.
Min 70-120: the armored coffin
Chapter-two doors are soft walls. Won't open = go upgrade plating, not "ram it ten more times." A fully plated coffin opens more doors than you can memorize.
Min 120+: pick your route
By now you've drifted toward a style. Follow the instinct, check it against the strategy page, don't force it.
Four ways to stop breathing
✗ Treating the coffin as storage
It's base + armor + vehicle trinity. Skip the upgrades and chapter two's doors will teach you.
✗ One bottle out the airlock
One bottle = zero margin. Plan any trip past round-trip range as "will die once."
✗ Averting your eyes from bodies
Series tradition: the good loot is near the dead. Moral discomfort is part of the design; resources don't care about manners.
✗ Skipping all text, then asking what the ending meant
40% of the story is in pickup text. Skip it and you watched half a film, then blamed the film.
100% of first suffocations were one-bottle expeditions.
— site editor, a sample size of one life
Launch-week questions
Black-comedy survival. Jump scares exist but each comes with a punchline — scared but laughing is the series formula.