3D arcade flight · single-player · in development

Tourist from Almaty

He booked a tour. He got the front seat of a fighter jet. Istanbul is 4,320 km west and everyone on the radio wants a word.

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ROUTE ALA → IST LEGS 06 DISTANCE 4,320 KM WEAPONS NONE DUTY-FREE 1 BOTTLE

The situation

STORY
// 06:14 LOCAL — SOMEWHERE PAST BALKHASH

You paid for a package tour out of Almaty. You woke up in the front seat of a fighter jet with a bottle of lemon liqueur rolling around your boots.

Nobody on the radio believes you're a tourist. The escort wing keeps asking for a callsign you don't have. Somewhere behind you, a radar operator is filling in a form about it.

Istanbul is west. The fuel is finite, the sun is going down, and the only two things you control are the stick and how loudly you panic. Keep it west.

Escort fighter jets over the sea at sunset
ESCORT WING · NO CLEARANCE · NO CALLSIGN

What you actually do

GAMEPLAY

Fly by feel

Arcade flight model, first-person cockpit. Six controls, no cold-start checklist. You'll be airborne in ten seconds and terrified in twelve.

Fear is a mechanic

Panic fogs the canopy, shakes the stick and scrambles your instruments. Fly calm or fly blind — the meter decides which.

Talk your way out

A radio wheel full of excuses instead of a weapons wheel. Interceptors answer back, and some of them can be talked down.

Six hand-built legs

Dry seabed, open Caspian, night mountains, a low run over the Black Sea. Each leg has its own hazard and its own way of going wrong.

Duty-free physics

Loose cargo shifts when you pull hard. That bottle is 0.7 kg of unsecured mass and it has opinions about your barrel roll.

Skies worth the detour

Hand-painted sunsets, storm decks and smoke you can lose a missile in. Slightly cartoonish, deliberately not cheerful.

Almaty → Istanbul

FLIGHT PLAN
ALA · 01

Almaty

Wheels up from the one airport where somebody knows your name.

ARL · 02

Aral basin

Sandstorm over dry seabed. Ground radar wakes up and starts asking questions.

CSP · 03

Caspian crossing

No diversion field for 700 km. First interceptors join your wing.

CAU · 04

Caucasus ridge

Night, valleys, lock warnings. The mountains are the only cover you have.

BLK · 05

Black Sea run

Deck level over water at sunset. Missiles inbound, fear meter maxed.

IST · 06

Istanbul

Land on fumes. Explain everything. Order the kebab you flew here for.

TOTAL 4,320 KM LEGS 06 REFUELS 02 PASSPORTS 01

Try the fear meter

LIVE SYSTEM

Scroll faster. Move the cursor. The cockpit reacts the same way it does in game — shake, blur, warning lamps, instruments dropping out. Press the radio to say something stupid and calm down.

FEAR 0%CALM

Pilot is quiet. Suspiciously quiet.