THE GOLD COAST · 1750
Survive the wild.
Build a life. Find your place.
An independent survival adventure rooted in Akan life. Explore as Kofi, make a home, and find your place.
A world taking shape. A story worth following.
THIS IS KOFI’S JOURNEY
Called home after his uncle’s death, Kofi returns to a land of forests, rivers and communities. The next meal. A fire before nightfall. A shelter made by hand.
Beyond the daily struggle is a story of inheritance, responsibility and belonging. A place to build a life, and people to share it with.
Survive. Build. Belong.STRAIGHT FROM THE GAME
Come closer. Choose a chapter.
See the game from Kofi’s point of view.
SURVIVE
A little patience. An ember you earn. A fire to gather around. Watch one of the small moments that brings Kofi’s world to life.
A LAND WITH ITS OWN RHYTHM
From the forest canopy to the water’s edge. Choose a place to explore.
Beneath a dense canopy, every turn feels like a discovery. Walk the paths, gather what you need and find your way home.
THE THINGS THAT MAKE A LIFE
Look closerSTORY, QUESTS & THINGS TO DO
You are Kofi. Your late uncle left you a piece of land called Baobab Point. Prove you are his heir, make a home with your own hands, and find your place among the people of the village.
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64 of 132 entries
68 of 132 entries
64 of 105 entries in the game, leaving out the islands
Each listed entry counts once, from a whole story chapter to a small delivery. These percentages count entries, rather than overall development progress.
Open a section to explore every entry, reward and next chapter.
The main story is called The Heir. Your cousin claims the land by his father's line, and the elders will hear the case at the chief's court. Every chapter makes your case stronger or weaker.
In the game now
Present yourself to the chief at his court, through his linguist, with a proper gift.
Reward: 16 taku and a fowl
Give your uncle his final funeral: palm wine, the drummers' fee, a goat or meat for the guests.
Reward: 8 taku
Answer your cousin Kweku's claim before the elders.
Settle your uncle's debt of 12 ackies with Esi, or carry her loads for four days.
Repay your family 2 ackies if the funeral came up short.
Find two people who heard what your uncle wanted.
Bring six logs to your uncle's widow, Akosua Mensah.
Sit with the grandmother, Nana Akosua Nsiah, at the fire on two evenings.
Meet old Ekow at Paddle Beach at dusk and hear what your uncle was watching. First part playable.
Coming
Cross to the island, find the Hollow and the black stone, and bring the truth back to Ekow.
Speak at the chief's court on a court day. Three endings: one family, shared land, or taken by force.
Reward: 1 ounce of gold dust
Scout a war band's camp unseen at dusk.
Pay them off, talk them round, defend the farms, or sabotage their camp at night.
Track two men who seized a girl at the well and bring her home.
Bring the elders a gift from your own settlement. Baobab Point becomes yours by name.
A list of your next five tasks stays on screen, with a gold marker on the compass, on the map and in the world. A journal keeps your quests and everything you have heard.
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Wake, follow the smoke across the river, drink, find the broken bridge, fell and split your first tree.
Make a hammer, a bow and arrows. Hunt a bushbuck, carry it to camp, build a bench and butcher it.
Raise a shelter, build and light a campfire with a hand drill, cook, and stay by the fire while hyenas circle.
Mend the bridge, beat the guard, enter the village, greet the chief's linguist, trade at the hill market.
Cross the plain to the baobabs, dig at the roots, and return to the village fire.
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Walk the plot with the master builder, raise a shelter and your first hut, and sleep there.
Two buildings, your own bed, and a fire in the compound.
Two snares, a drying rack, ten meat in store, and two safe nights.
Finish three jobs, raise a skill to level 4, and become known.
A bench and a workshop, Hunter or Maker at level 8, and 60 kg of goods.
Kofi's room, Household, Compound, and Recognised house.
Coming
Four more chapters that take the compound toward a settlement with families of its own.
Baobab Point named as yours once the story is won.
A count of every island you have set foot on, out of 37.
People with paid work show a small gold-dust pouch over their head. Most jobs can be done more than one way: by talking, paying, threatening, sneaking or fighting.
In the game now
Esi says the trader Addo cheats with light gold weights. Watch three deals, then expose him, settle it quietly, or take his hush-gold.
Reward: 24 or 72 taku
Get three calabashes of fresh palm wine to the court before it sours.
Reward: 24 taku fresh, 12 late
A herder's goats are being raided. Find the three troop leaders and bring their hides to the herders' camp.
Reward: 48 taku
Raiders robbed your market stall in the night. Find your gold dust at their camp.
In the game now
Pick twenty kola nuts for the kola trader.
Reward: 24 taku
Fell a tree at the twin stone cliffs and sled the log to the Landing for the canoe carver.
Reward: 32 taku
Bring the old tracker a duiker hide.
Reward: 16 taku
Dig three fever roots for Maame Akua Serwaa.
Reward: 16 taku
Follow the cut branches and get a hurt hunter home.
Chop three trees, dig out the stumps and light a fire to claim a forest plot.
In the game now
Four women can be courted. Each takes the same road.
Ask to visit, bring gifts she likes, sit with her in the evenings, win her family's consent, and marry.
Coming
Carry a lit torch to the bee tree and bring Afia her honey. Opens with the next build.
Take a robbed trader's gold-dust pouch back from the raiders' camp.
Farmers and fishermen are feuding. Take a side or find the old boundary stones.
Walk Baobab Point's bounds with the queen mother and reset two fallen stones.
A creditor took a fisherman's canoe for a debt already paid.
Someone paid the goldsmith in brass filings. Follow the trail.
A fake warden charges tolls on the beach path.
Carry Kojo's gifts and speak for him to his bride's family.
Two more cases of debt and honour.
Read the tracks and sit a night watch.
Drive a goat-killing lion back past Lion Rocks, or kill it.
Guard the fish racks at night against a pack.
Lead a patrol, sneak the goods back, or offer the robbers work.
Drive it off with fire and noise. It can never be killed.
Short paid jobs that teach you the village, fill your pouch and lead you to bigger work.
In the game now
Six dry sticks for the potter.
Reward: 4 to 5 taku
A bushbuck or duiker hide for the drummer Kwasi Ofori.
Reward: 8 taku
Build a rack at your new house.
Build a stick stack beside it.
Sticks for the Kiln, Clay for the Walls, Kola for Esi, A Load for the Headman, Wood for the Cook's Pots, Clay for the Forge, The Smith's Fire.
Reward: 2 to 4 taku each
In the game now
Carry a message and it opens another quest.
In the game now
Clear a plot, carry produce, fetch a log. Paid by the day.
Stock it and it sells for you each day.
Bring the chief his due at the festival.
Coming
Find good clay for the potter and tend her firing at dusk.
Split wood for the fish racks and carry smoked fish to market by mid-morning.
A dawn watch on the yam mounds.
Help push the canoes up through the surf each day.
Weigh a woman's gold dust in the wind without spilling any.
Beat three players, then play the old man for a story about your uncle.
Throw and shoot against three young men.
Catch a live bushbuck bare-handed at the festival.
Join a crew, train and race.
Carry a hurt messenger's words to the beach before dusk.
Find a missing carrier after a storm.
A forest camp job that waits for the chimpanzees.
Between quests the land itself gives you plenty to do. None of this needs a quest giver.
In the game now
Your needs change with sun, rain, sprinting and the season.
Work the drill, catch the ember, and keep the fire fed.
Roast on a spit, cook on embers, or make pot dishes.
A bed rests you and saves your journey.
A twelve-day year: Major rains, Short dry, Minor rains, Harmattan and Burning time.
In the game now
Stalk, follow blood trails, carry the kill home and butcher it at your bench.
Bait them and check them in the morning.
Chop, trim, split, and haul logs home on a drag sled.
Sticks, stones, vines, fibre and kola.
Tools, a bow and arrows, dressings, splints, mats, baskets, snares.
In the game now
Raise huts in stages and add work places as the compound grows through four levels.
Your own stores and a family store.
Nine stalls at the hill market, haggling, and the goldsmith's scales.
And answer the raids on it.
Hunter, Maker and Speaker. Break the law and you answer at the chief's court.
The evening gathering, the drums, and people who remember how you treated them.
In the game now
Forest, open country, mountains, marsh and coast.
In the mountain lake and in the sea. New this week.
Lianas to climb, a bee tree, a game of oware.
Coming
Light your way at night. In the next build.
Rod, traps and a stone weir, in the river and on the reef.
Paddle the coast and carry cargo between landings.
Families who come to live and work in your compound.
Remedies to make, and a sickness to fear.
And climbing out over rocks.
One true island, twenty-five sea rocks and eleven marsh banks lie off the coast. All of this is designed and still to be built. The sea swim that reaches the first of them went into the game this week.
Coming
The first clue, on the beach where you launch.
On the reef, four metres down.
Scratched on a rock too small to camp on.
Half sunk in the mangroves.
An ash heap, a failed rough-out, and what he left behind.
Entered only by canoe in calm water. The end of the trail.
Coming
Your own shelter, fire, drying rack and bed on a cove rock.
A business of your own, with a hired hand.
Bigger fish in deeper water.
By hand, on a held breath.
Feathers for better arrows, eggs in season.
Sea salt in the dry seasons.
Coming
Trade, a canoe, and one more woman to court.
Build your own dugout from a silk-cotton tree.
Nesting in season.
Rebuild it as a second home.
A short swim through a rock arch to a hidden beach and a rare orchid.
A hard black stone and the axe it makes.
Two men living alone, each with a quest.
Animals with a place of their own.
Coming
Light them all and the fisher family's canoe calls at your beach.
Your name stays on the map.
One day a year the sea boils and the birds dive.
A cove that shines on moonless nights.
It only shows in the dry season.
A night under an overhang with a driftwood fire.
Against the fisher crews.
All 27 island entries are designed and still to come. The 37 planned places include one true island, 25 sea rocks and 11 marsh banks.Gold dust: 8 taku = 1 ackie.
MOMENTS FROM KOFI’S WORLD
The light. The land. The life in between.
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SEE HOW FAR IT’S COME
Same summit. A new atmosphere.
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The same summit view: original atmosphere on 7 October, then the new day cycle at dawn on 8 October 2026. Development captures.
03 / FROM FOUNDATIONS TO A LIVING WORLD
From early playable foundations to the latest
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09 NOV 2026 / CHAPTER 06
The latest development chapter brings dressed camps, new quest responses and more to discover. Playtesting continues.
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BEFORE THE ADVENTURE
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THE JOURNEY IS JUST BEGINNING
From the first spark to the next horizon. Follow an independent adventure taking shape, and be here for the next chapter of Kofi’s story.
Follow the latest progress In active development. Release date and store availability to be announced.04 / EXPLORE THE MAKING OF THE GAME
Big changes. Small details. The work in between.
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