Flat Earth Runner

A Yowie woke up. Now it's running laps of the world.
Somewhere past the last research station, a cryptid became self aware. Not "oh look, a bush" aware. Properly aware. Aware enough to work out the world is a flat disc with a big ice wall round the edge, and that the quickest way to prove it is to run the whole way round.

The New World Order isn't keen on this. Neither are the greys. Neither is the dome.

How it plays
It's an endless runner. The track never stops. You dodge whatever the dome defence grid throws at you, ride slipstreams until the speed gets stupid, and it keeps getting harder the further you go. No levels, no difficulty menu. It just ramps up until it beats you. Then you go again.

Pick your cryptid
Yowie, Yeren, Chupacabra or ARC. Four shapes, four backstories, all of them a bit dodgy. Each one has extra skins, and the Workshop means people can make more.

Bring three mates
Local split screen for up to four players on one PC. One window, four panes, four cryptids each running their own lap of the world. Split-screen scores stay on your machine and never touch the global leaderboards, so the couch can be as unfair as it likes.

Someone's watching
The HUD isn't a HUD. It's the desk of the poor bugger assigned to keep an eye on you, and you're looking over their shoulder through a CRT nobody has serviced since the Antarctic Treaty was signed. The speedo is a crystal ball. The progress bar is literally growing. Something in the corner is looking back.

100 bits of lore
Scattered across the ice are 100 lore fragments: field notes, intercepted transmissions, and statements from people who probably shouldn't have lived long enough to give them. Collect them to unlock each cryptid's bio and piece together what's really going on down there.

The only one watching you is in the game
No DRM. No telemetry. The game doesn't phone home, and you can back up the install folder, move it to another PC and it just runs. The only surveillance in Flat Earth Runner is the poor bugger on the HUD, and he's not paid enough to report back.

What you get
Original soundtrack, every track playable from the start

Local split screen for up to 4 players (PC only)

Steam Workshop for custom skins and your own songs

A local "contraband" folder for skins and tracks, no Workshop needed

Achievements and leaderboards

Cloud saves

Controller support

Runs in a fixed window on PC: portrait when you're solo, landscape for split screen

Every Steam feature can be switched off in settings if you just want to run

Made by one person in Queensland
Flat Earth Runner is just me. One person, a desk, and open source tools (Godot, Blender and Ardour) on Linux.

Just so we're clear
This is a comedy. Flat earth, the NWO, grey aliens, Antarctic cover-ups. It plays all of it dead straight because that's funnier. None of it is a real claim about anything. The earth is round. Please don't run to Antarctica.