Read what the ground, the fire, and the tools can tell you. Learn to recognize traces, understand them, test them, and finally reconstruct what happened.
Each level changes the kind of thinking the game asks from you. Historical difficulty comes from evidence and reasoning, not obscure wording.
Identify tools, materials, traces, and basic technologies.
Work out why something happens, what a trace means, or how a technology works.
Use what you know in practical situations and choose the right action or tool.
Combine several clues and decide which explanation is best supported.
Use several pieces of evidence to rebuild a sequence of events.
Era I is not a caricature of “cavemen.” It is a world of skilled people working with stone, wood, fibre, hide, fire, water, and close observation.
The setting is a fictional southern-European hunter-gatherer community inspired by early-Holocene environments and Mesolithic evidence. The visual language remains plausible without claiming that every object or technique belonged to one real community.
Historical content remains curated. At play time, procedural structures change the puzzle, combination, and difficulty so the same knowledge must be used in different ways.
Compare evidence scenes and identify meaningful changes.
Choose the components needed to rebuild an object or toolkit.
Reconstruct chronological or technical sequences.
Connect archaeological traces to the actions that most likely produced them.
Use a set of clues to reach one unique solution.
Spot objects that do not belong in the historical period.
Navigate historically framed routes with tighter limits at higher levels.
Select the clues that support a specific activity or interpretation.
The Final Case is the destination of the learning path. Its internal investigation experience will have its own dedicated visual treatment.
A storm has nearly put out the campfire. By dawn, a protected ember is missing. Examine four locations, compare twelve clues, reconstruct WHO, WHY, WHERE, WHAT, and WHEN, then choose the three pieces of evidence that prove your theory.