A game from Applied Flux · Android
Drywater.
Ride out prepared, or don't ride out.
A single-player Old West survival and taming game. Gather what the land gives you, earn the trust of wild animals, raise an outpost, and stay ahead of the cold. No dead ends and no unfair deaths — just graduated, recoverable consequences for anyone who rides out unprepared.
Coming soon to Google Play
Privacy Policy →What's in it
Preparation is the
whole game.
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Tame and ride four wild species
Track, feed, and earn the trust of an elk, bear, horse, or cougar — and every animal you tame rolls its own speed and carrying strength, so no two mounts are the same. Taming is a nerve game, not a button press: feed an animal while it's receptive, watch trust climb and nerve fray, and back off before you spook it.
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Cold, heat, and the turning seasons
Temperature is the constant threat, and both extremes are lethal. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter each shift the ambient temperature, and where you stand matters as much as when — the forest runs cooler than the valley, the mountains stay bitter year-round. Build shelter, craft hide wraps and fur coats, cook hot meals. Or ride a bear, and take your heat with you.
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Build and staff a frontier outpost
Lay foundations, raise walls and doors, and place forges, workbenches, cooking, tailoring, and smithing stations. Sealed walls and good furniture make a space genuinely cozy — and coziness is a mechanic, not a decoration. Recruit workers out in the wilderness and assign them to a station, where they keep processing raw material while you're away.
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Deep crafting and an economy that moves
Refine stone, ore, and timber into ingots, planks, steel, and silver. Craft tools, bows, revolvers, rifles, and heavy forge equipment. Trade with a frontier merchant whose prices genuinely shift: every good swings with the season, prices sag when you flood the market, and the better your standing the less you pay.
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Built for thumbs, and for airplane mode
Fully offline single-player — no internet connection required, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Custom touch controls with a virtual joystick and thumb-sized targets, everything reachable one-handed.
The mounts
Four animals.
No best one.
| Species | Speed | Carry | Climbs cliffs | What it's for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cougar | 160 | 5 | Yes | The fastest thing you can sit on, and the only one that climbs. Carries almost nothing. |
| Elk | 147 | 15 | No | The frontier all-rounder — quick on its feet and a genuine hauler. |
| Horse | 133 | 10 | No | A dependable, even-tempered ride for steady overland work. |
| Bear | 93 | 20 | No | Slow, immensely strong, fights back — and its body heat keeps you alive in the cold. |
Base values. Each tamed individual rolls its own multiplier on top, and taming it well adds up to a further 25%.
Screens
The frontier, as it plays.
Privacy Policy
Nothing collected.
Nothing sent.
Drywater is a single-player, offline game. It has no backend, no accounts, and makes no network calls.
Zero data collection and tracking
Drywater collects, stores, transmits, and tracks no personal user data, no device identifiers, no location data, and no usage metrics.
Local storage only
All save files and game progression are stored locally on your device. Uninstalling the application removes those local save files.
No online connections or ads
The game functions completely offline. It contains no third-party advertisements, no in-app purchases, and no third-party analytics software.
App permissions
Drywater does not request or require access to your camera, contacts, microphone, or external storage.
This website
The statements above describe the Drywater application. This page you're reading is part of appliedflux.com, which uses Google Analytics to count visits — standard web analytics, unrelated to the game, and not connected to it in any way.
Questions
Email [email protected].
Found a bug?
Want to say something?
Drywater is built by one person — Ricky Cadden — under Applied Flux. Bug reports, feature arguments, and screenshots of your outpost all land in the same inbox, and I read them.
[email protected]