Beyond Dawn

The city sleeps. Scavenge it before it wakes.

Beyond Dawn is a free first-person exploration roguelike from Rabbit House Games, set in the world of Liminal Protocol. Search a dying cyberpunk city, recover its records and bring your salvage home before sunrise.

The world is rendered in 3D ASCII, including its lighting, characters and equipment.

Beyond Dawn

• Scavenge and extract. Gather scrap, cores and lost messages. Evade warden drones and return to shelter before dawn.
• Find new routes. Cross sixteen districts, explore abandoned interiors and unlock the winch and Vector Jets.
• Upgrade your equipment. Bank salvage and improve your rig at the shelter work bays.
• Recover the records. Follow clues, speak with your shelter contact and read messages on your flip-down visor.

Start at the observation station

Operate a Liminal Corp console to choose Research lab, Beyond Dawn or Wasteland. Track completed work and select which unlocked future to enter.

The Liminal Protocol channel covers the Sector 7 incident and links to the separate Steam game.

Lattice vision

Turn down the world’s resolution to reveal its underlying ASCII structure.

• Shallow settings reveal navigation markers, routes and nearby structural outlines.
• Deeper settings reveal disturbances. Aim at them to decode hidden records.
• Keep your discoveries by pinning a route or reading its record on the visor.

Research lab

Enter Research Bay Four through T-Link and operate its equipment.

Sample 09: Scan a biological specimen at different depths, recover three measurements and tune the harmonic coupler.

Receiver C-12: Isolate power, rotate copper trace modules and test the repaired circuit.

Repairs change a later timeline

Restore R-03 in Beyond Dawn to power an extra passage in Wasteland.

Repair C-12 in the lab to restore the missing T-Link note and enable an emergency supply locker once per trip.

Choose your future before leaving shelter. Changes apply on the next departure. Wasteland variants share your weapons, upgrades and banked supplies.

Beyond Wasteland

Explore a possible future after the incident. Fight through the ruined city, recover supplies and bring them back to your shelter contact.

• Choose one melee weapon and one gun at the shelter benches before each trip.
• Equip a crowbar, machete or sledgehammer, alongside a pistol, shotgun or carbine.
• Chain melee hits, dodge attacks and fight different zombie types.
• Take on Keep the Channel, an assignment to recover a radio coupler from the Cargo Handler in the service annex.

Wasteland is in active development. Night Circuit and boss practice are marked “super early testing” in the game.

Play in your browser

No installation required. Use a desktop or laptop with a keyboard and mouse, launch in fullscreen and start with the tutorial.

• WASD: move. Mouse: look. Space: jump. C: crouch.
• E: interact. F: headlamp. J: open or close the visor.
• V: toggle Lattice. Mouse wheel: tune its depth.
• Esc: pause and open settings.

Controls can be rebound. Mouse look starts inverted and can be changed in Settings.

Progress saves locally in your browser. Use the same browser and play location to return to your save.

Development and feedback

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Liminal Protocol on Steam · Rabbit House Games