Terra Incognita: Walking Game

New: the Expedition Rank. A society back home has kept a ledger on you this whole time. Every step, find and build now earns a title you cannot buy.

Your real steps power every expedition. Go outside, walk, and explore a continent that appears on no map. Every step lifts the fog a little further.

A research expedition drifted off course into thick fog. When it lifted, there was land ahead. On no chart, in no report. The nature is breathtaking but wrong. Plants in geometric patterns. Ruins built with tools no known civilization should have. Now you are here, mapping the impossible.

DRAW YOUR OWN ROUTE You stand somewhere on the map and decide where to go next. Tap out your route tile by tile: straight through the fog toward a landmark, or the cheap way around over ground you know. You see what it costs in steps before you commit. Then go outside and walk it. No GPS, no set routes, no treadmill. Just move however you want.

EXPLORE YOUR OWN WORLD Every player discovers a different continent. Your map is yours alone, full of landmarks and secrets no one else will see. Head to the mountains for stone, the jungle for wood, the ruins for rare samples.

FILL YOUR RESEARCH JOURNAL Every sample you collect now carries a name, a category, and a note on what makes it strange. Each landscape is a chapter of twelve species to find. The samples still pay out in full, so no walk is wasted, they just also earn a page now. Plants that grow in perfect hexagons, artifacts no known tool could have made: the mystery lives in what you catalog.

BUILD YOUR BASE CAMP Collect wood, stone, food, and biological samples on expeditions. Invest them into 7 buildings across two categories, camp and research. Upgrade your headquarters, unlock new landscapes with the Navigation Station, and push further into the unknown.

SET UP OUTPOSTS Stand on a spot you have revealed and build a depot there. It gathers the resources of its landscape while you are away, and nothing decays, so a lazy week costs you nothing. But a depot never pays out on its own. You collect it by walking a route back over it, turning your explored map into a supply network.

Every step counts three times: once for your expedition, once for your building upgrade, once for the outpost you are putting up. One walk, triple progress.

DAILY CHALLENGES Three new goals every day: walk steps, reveal ground, find a secret, gather resources. Complete all three and your streak grows, with milestones at 3, 7, 14, and 30 days.

KEEP YOUR OWN RECORD The logbook holds every expedition, upgrade, outpost, and challenge, with the resources each one brought in. Get a notification when an expedition, upgrade, or outpost is done, with four separate switches so you decide what reaches you.

EARN YOUR RANK Back home, a scientific society keeps a ledger on you, and now you get to read it. Every field you drag out of the fog, every species you name, every camp and outpost you raise builds your standing across four explorer roles: Wanderer, Cartographer, Builder, Naturalist. Each hands out medals, bronze through gold, and together they carry one Expedition Rank that climbs from lowly Ship's Boy to Honorary Fellow of the Society. Your lifetime steps sit at the top of the home screen, quietly counting. Not a rung of it is for sale. You walk your way up, or it stays out of reach.

FAIR BY DESIGN Free players explore 3 landscapes with no restrictions and build outposts without limits. The full version unlocks 5 more landscapes and the research buildings. One purchase, permanent access. No subscriptions, no ads, no pay-to-win. Walking is never blocked.

FEATURES

• Step tracking via your phone's health data, no GPS
• A borderless map with landmarks and secrets, different for every player
• Draw your own route, build outposts, fill a research journal
• An Expedition Rank and medals across four explorer roles
• 7 buildings, daily challenges, streak milestones, 8 landscapes
• Background step sync on iPhone, English and German