Clareira — A Place to Stay

One tent. One campfire. A place to stay.

You arrive alone in a woodland clearing with a tent and a few berries. Gather wood and stone, light your first fire and prepare for nightfall. Before long, travellers start arriving, looking for somewhere they can call home.

Clareira is a pixel art survival and village-building game. Every new resident brings a profession, a personal request and a different way to help. Your goal: turn a lonely camp into a village of 10 people and guide them through their first winter.

From the first night to spring

• Survive in the woods: manage hunger, energy, health and cold. Hunt, cook and keep the campfire burning. Watch out: animals fight back.
• Build your camp: place shelters, paths, fences and gates directly on the map. Upgrade your tent and your neighbours' homes.
• Raise chickens: capture a pair, protect the pen and collect meat from its basket as your flock grows.
• Welcome nine neighbours: assign jobs, fulfil requests and put their different skills to work.
• Stock up: turn logs into planks, preserve meals in the smokehouse and smelt ore at the forge.
• Explore: search an abandoned cabin, restore a well, help a lost traveller and discover the iron hillside.
• Make decisions together: deal with illness, arguments, strong winds and tracks near the chicken pen.
• Weather the winter: snow arrives on day 7. Keep everyone warm and fed until spring on the morning of day 10. Then keep building.

How to play

Desktop keyboard and mouse. Fully in English. Click Run game, then New game. Fullscreen gives you a better view of your camp.

WASD / arrows / click the ground	Move
Shift	Run
E	Gather, talk, cook, sleep or capture
Space / Q	Hunt / eat
B / M / R	Build / move a building / rotate a fence
C / V / U	Residents / village and crafting / upgrade or repair nearby buildings
F / J / Esc	Add firewood / journal / pause

Your first step: gather 6 wood and 4 stone, press B and place your campfire. Prompts beside your character show the available action. Your journal explains the objectives.

Your progress saves automatically. You can also save from the pause menu and choose Continue when you return. Saves stay in this browser; clearing site data can remove them. Private browsing may not keep saves between sessions.

Free and in development

This version includes both chapters, from your arrival in the clearing to the first winter. It is a single-player experience, with balance and presentation still evolving. If you find a problem, leave a comment describing what happened and which in-game day you had reached.

Credits

A project by Bruno Simões, made with Godot. Characters, animals, fire and some interface assets: Sunnyside World by Daniel Diggle. Environment and buildings: Pixel16 by zedpxl. Procedural sound and a custom pixel interface for Clareira.

Screenshots show the game. The cover and banner are promotional illustrations.