Crossings
Crossings is an open-world, top-down adventure/strategy game where you smuggle immigrants over the border for a living. Explore the border to find holes in the security, learn the surveillance patterns, bribe the border guards, and scavenge for equipment and tools as you try to smuggle over as many immigrants (and illicit goods) as possible to feed your family. Help people across rivers, through mountain passes, and over border fences to take them to their new lives — and keep your own.
Mission
You are a smuggler guiding immigrants across various types of terrain and obstacles — mountains, forests, rivers, etc — to make it to the border, all while avoiding the border guards and the border’s security measures.
Vision
Players begin in a starter town where the missions have smaller groups and smaller rewards as the player learns the game mechanics. The main routes to the border from the starter town are fairly easy, with only basic obstacles and fairly sparse guard patrol patterns. The starter area is also blocked off from the rest of the map by rivers which have unfinished bridges crossing them.
Objective
When the player reaches a certain level of experience (either by number of missions or total amount earned) the bridges are “finished” and the rest of the map is unlocked. From this point forth, progression is in the form of the tools bought by the player to assist in smuggling missions. Players can explore the playable area in search of towns for unique challenges, new tools and equipment, and more immigrants to help. The harder the mission, the more patrols there will be on the route, for an added challenge mechanism.