About Iron Lung
Iron Lung puts you inside a small submarine beneath an ocean of blood on an alien moon. The porthole is sealed, leaving an incomplete map, proximity information, sound and a grainy external camera to guide the mission. You must reach marked locations and photograph them. The difficulty is interpreting limited information: a heading, a nearby obstacle and a photograph tell you different things, and none provides the comfort of an open view ahead.
How to Play Iron Lung
Getting Started
- Read the map and identify the next location you need to photograph.
- Adjust your course in small stages while monitoring nearby obstacles.
- Use the external camera at the required locations and compare what you learn with the map.
Practical tips
- Separate turning from moving forward so you can understand the result of each adjustment.
- Slow down near an uncertain boundary instead of treating an incomplete map as a complete picture.
Frequently asked question
Can you steer by looking through a window?
The porthole must remain closed at depth. Navigation relies on instruments and the external camera.