Gameplay

• At the start of each day (from day 1 to 4), a security staff NPC approaches the player and explains the new rules that must be followed. If the player breaks the rules (example: an NPC asking for food may only enter the food storage room after a decontamination shower; the player sends the NPC into the food storage room without a decontamination shower despite high contamination -> rule broken), the player loses money that is needed to keep their family alive. If the player discovers a problem / discrepancy in the NPC’s values, they can confront the NPC about it in Detective Mode (T key) by marking the two objects that reveal the issue in Detective Mode (example: NPC’s contamination value is too high: the player marks the contamination scanner and the note showing the allowed contamination value -> the player can confront the NPC, send them away, or assign a decontamination shower).
• Day 1: Food distribution. NPCs can come to the distribution station and ask for food. The player must use a contamination scanner to check the NPC’s contamination value and decide whether they may enter the food storage room or not. In addition, the player can choose to let up to 3 NPCs take a decontamination shower per day. The day also ends early because an NPC breaks into Hinode through a door.
• Day 2: Recruitment. From the second day on, NPCs can be recruited if they request it. The NPCs must complete a recruitment test and then return to the player to present their results. The player must review the test and decide how to proceed with the NPC (passed -> recruit; failed -> send the NPC away). In addition, from the second day onward there are 2 security staff NPCs in the player’s room. Some NPCs will not listen to the player’s instructions; the player must then lock down the room the NPC wants to enter and command one of the security staff NPCs to escort that NPC out.
• Day 3: Water distribution. From the third day on, NPCs can also ask for water. The player must check whether the NPC’s water stamp is authentic and still valid.
• Day 4: Data terminal. From the fourth day on, the player can check a database at a terminal. Every NPC must be checked to see whether the database contains entries about them that should deny access to the requested resources (example: NPC wants food -> possible database entry: "Tried to poison our food! Deny access!").
• At the end of each day, an overview of the family’s status appears. Food, water, electricity, heating costs, and possibly medicine must be paid for every day. If there is no longer enough money for one of these things, there is a chance that random family members will receive corresponding negative conditions (e.g. heating costs not paid -> "cold", not paid again -> "freezing", not paid again -> "sick"). After this overview, the day ends and the next one begins.
• Before the next day properly starts, the player can still read the current newspaper to find out what happened in Hinode the day before. There they can see which NPCs made an impact (e.g. "Leopold Ptieza" repairing waterworks, etc.).