Headwind

You're four days from the trailhead with everything you need strapped to a bicycle. The route doesn't care about your plan.

Headwind is a solo print-and-play survival game about a bikepacking trip that keeps finding new ways to test you. You manage three things that keep you moving: your Legs, your Bike, and your Bag. Push too hard and your legs give out. Ignore the terrain and your bike pays for it. Forget to eat and, well, you'll find out. Every day you choose a pace and decide whether to risk one more mile before dark.

It plays in 15 to 20 minutes. It fits on 36 cards and a single rules sheet. And it will absolutely make you say "one more run" out loud, alone, in your kitchen.

What's in the download:

• 36 cards: 18 Route, 6 Camp, 8 Gear, and 4 tracker cards
• A full rules sheet, front and back
• A print guide so your cards come out the right size
• Three scenarios, from a short overnighter to the full four-day Divide, plus a Monsoon mode for when you hate yourself

Headwind is free. Print it, play it, share it.

Made for: 

• Solo players who like a tight push-your-luck loop with decisions that actually bite
• Print-and-play fans
• Cyclists and bikepackers who will recognize every single one of these days

All you need to play is the cards, about ten tokens (coins, beans, gravel, we don't judge), and one six-sided die.

Headwind is the first game from Eonlight Games (exercising our new pipeline). New games, design notes, and first looks go out through our newsletter, Deep Signal. Tune in: https://eonlight.kit.com/bf76736cc9