Pressure Below

Under your yard is a sewer, and it’s full.

Floor to ceiling, every tunnel is packed with decades of muck, and buried in it is everything the town ever flushed, dropped or lost: rings, watches, coins, old cameras, the odd gold bar. You have a pressure washer, five lamps and a hose on a reel.

Walk down the service stairs, hold the trigger and carve your own way through. Wash your finds clean (clean sells for more), carry them back up into daylight and sell them at the stall in your yard to whoever wanders past. Spend the money on a longer hose, a bigger air tank, a stronger pump and a bigger backpack, and go deeper.

Down there it’s dark. The only light is the lamps you set down yourself, and you can change their colour to mark your routes. Your air runs out. The rats don’t like you.

The whole game is one puzzle. Somewhere at the far end of the network an old pumping station is waiting for someone to work out how to start it again. Nothing tells you how. Every trip down is a step toward solving it.

Features

• A two-level sewer network that starts completely full: every passage is one you washed out yourself
• A pressure washer that really washes: carve through sludge, clean your finds, blast rats back
• Lamps you place yourself are your only light and your only map
• Your own sale stall: buyers come over, look, pay, and get bored of the tenth gold ring
• Upgrades for the pump, hose reel, air tank and backpack
• One ending to earn, and no hints on the way
• Autosave, graphics presets from laptops to gaming PCs, full settings

I’d love your feedback! This is my game, and I read every comment. Did you like it? Did you get stuck? Did you solve the pumping station? Leave a comment below. And since the whole game is built around a single puzzle: if you’d like more puzzles in the next game, say so in the comments. It will shape what I make next.