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❤ Survival and Resource Management

Players must carefully manage the group's limited supplies of food, water, and materials to construct shelters, tools, and other necessities for survival. Meeting the basic needs of hunger, thirst, and warmth is critical, as characters can become injured or sick if these needs are not addressed. Blizzards, extreme cold, and dangerous wildlife like bears and wolves pose constant threats to the group's wellbeing.

❤ Exploration and Scavenging

To gather resources, players send out teams to explore the surrounding Siberian taiga. Exploration is risky - characters can become lost, injured by predators like wolves, or attacked by roaming bandits. Successful expeditions yield valuable supplies like ammunition, medicine, and raw materials, but failed missions can devastate the group's morale and resources.

❤ Character Interaction and Relationships

The game focuses on navigating the tensions between the diverse group of passengers, who range from aristocratic loyalists to revolutionary communists. Players make dialogue choices during nightly "campfire" scenes that impact the characters' trust, friendship, and willingness to cooperate on tasks. Maintaining harmony between the clashing personalities is crucial, as low morale can lead to characters deserting the group.

❤ Morale and Decision-Making

Players must carefully balance the needs and desires of different characters, making choices that benefit some but alienate others. These decisions, combined with random hardships like food poisoning or sudden blizzards, shape the narrative arc and determine the group's final fate.

❤ Replayability and Difficulty

The game offers high replayability, with randomly generated characters, events, and scenarios each playthrough. Difficulty can be adjusted from the relatively forgiving "Passenger" mode to the unforgiving "Hard" setting, which requires meticulous resource management and difficult choices to ensure survival.