Wayfinders

Journey as history's great navigators. Read the real stars. Make the choices they made — or didn't.

Wayfinders is a premium, depth-heavy navigation game for anyone who has ever wondered what it actually took to cross an ocean without GPS. You'll sail with five of history's best-documented navigators — from the 4th century BC to the early 1500s — using only what they had: the sky, the wind, the birds, and their own nerve.

THE FIVE NAVIGATORS

• Pytheas of Massalia (c. 330 BC) — the first westerner to document the Arctic, from Marseilles to the British Isles to "Thule." Source: Strabo, Diodorus Siculus. • Leif Erikson (c. 1000 AD) — Greenland to Vinland, ~500 years before Columbus. Source: the Icelandic sagas. • Zheng He (1405–1433) — the Ming treasure fleets, Nanjing to Calicut and beyond. Source: Ma Huan's Ying-yai Sheng-lan. • Christopher Columbus (1492) — Palos to the Canaries to the Bahamas. Source: Las Casas's preservation of Columbus's diary. • Ferdinand Magellan (1519–1521) — Seville to the strait that bears his name, then the Pacific. Source: Pigafetta's Relazione.

THE CAPTAIN'S JOURNAL

Every voyage fills in a chapter of your personal Captain's Journal — your decisions, the real outcome, the actual primary-source quote. Unlock over 50 margin notes from Pigafetta, Las Casas, Ma Huan, and Strabo as you sail.

THE DAILY DECK

Each "day" of a voyage presents your position as a real star chart (rendered from the HYG astronomical catalog), wind and current conditions, environmental observations, and three to five decisions. Match what the historical navigator did and build fidelity. Deviate and open an alternate history.

WHAT YOU UNLOCK FOR $4.99

• All 5 explorers, all 15 voyages • The full Captain's Journal • No ads, ever • Fully offline — no account, no tracking, no telemetry • All future free content drops (new voyages every 2–4 weeks post-launch)

Approximately 15 hours of content, fully replayable through alternate-history branches.

THE ZAFRONIX PROMISE

No ads. No account. No data harvesting. No subscription. One purchase, yours forever, offline. Built by a solo developer, sourced from the public domain, sold without compromise.

A note on what's NOT in v1: Polynesian wayfinding, the Arabic navigation tradition, and Micronesian voyaging are all missing — deliberately. We want to honor those traditions with proper cultural consultation, not guesswork. They'll ship as a free or low-cost pack when that work is done.

Zafronix Premium is our new sub-line for depth-heavy edutainment titles. Wayfinders is the launch.