Europe Heatwave Simulator
It's 42°C and you live in Europe, so of course there is no AC. Survive a 14-day heatwave in a Paris studio: melt on camera for your remote job, riot for the last discounted AC unit, lose every fan auction to scalpers, pay rent every Sunday. The heat ends. The landlady does not. PSX survival comedy.
It's 42°C. You have no AC, because you live in Europe, where heat is still a rumor. You have a remote job, a fan that dies on day 2, and 14 days to survive in a Paris studio with the thermal properties of a panini press.
European Heatwave Simulator is a first-person survival comedy with no status bars: your body files complaints in deadpan text lines that pulse red; ignore them and heatstroke ends the run.
[h1]Fourteen days. One studio. 33°C and climbing.[/h1]Your apartment is trying to kill you
Open the windows and the room matches the street in seconds. Close them and you own a well-insulated oven. Your arsenal: fans, ice blocks, a mosquito net, a fly swatter, and eventually a real AC unit: 21°C vented, 2600W dumped back inside unvented. The hose pops off on its own, turning your proudest purchase into a space heater. Appliances break from day 2; the approved repair method is percussive: whack them until they confess.
Keep the job. Or don't.
Daily at 11:00, a Dezoom call with the worst coworkers ever legally hired, across around 26 branching scenarios, and your webcam tile is a real live camera feed of you at your desk. Between calls: 94 work tasks across 33 micro-games, 10 a day or lose pay. Three HR strikes and you are fired, after which you live on 40€ a day of heatwave welfare. Unemployment is not a fail state. It is a difficulty setting.
THE FIGHT FOR DISCOUNTED AC
Day 5, a flyer: discounted AC units, doors open at 7:30, quantities so limited it reads like a threat. Set your alarm for 7:00 and join a supermarket riot: around 180 rivals crushed against the doors, an arcade dash past pallets, trolleys and grannies, then a fist fight over the last unit against mannequins who refuse to stay down. Win and you carry the box home like a newborn. Lose and your coworkers debrief it on the next call. Closed on Sundays. This is Europe.
Shopping as a survival skill
GreedCo delivers next morning, and its prices creep up 4% a day, so hesitation is billed. Leave a package on the landing too long and a stranger steals it; your upstairs neighbour leaves a note describing the thief, which helps nobody. On Fleabay, scalpers flip 30€ fans for absurd money and one sniper outbids you at the last second, every time, forever.
The toilet is an arcade cabinet
Peeing is a full minigame: a drifting physical jet, combo multipliers, rank popups, a persistent high score. You can do it during a work call. The mic, however, is still on.
The money is also against you
You start at minus 20€, which in this economy counts as a head start. Rent is 280€, pulled every Sunday, and the bank emails to offer a bigger overdraft at 19.9%, the way an arsonist offers a lighter. Your inbox holds 25+ mails: heatwave ads, a fake tax office, and a company streaming AC sounds as a monthly subscription.
Features
14 days of heatwave, 33°C up to 43°C, and a scripted arc: fan funeral day 2, package theft from day 3, supermarket riot day 5, landlady visit day 8, general strike day 11, rent every Sunday
Needs without bars: deadpan status lines that pulse red, and heatstroke that actually kills (you resume from that morning)
Dezoom calls with around 26 branching scenarios and a webcam tile that is a real live feed of you at your desk
94 work tasks across 33 micro-games, a 3-strike HR system, 40€/day welfare if fired
An AC that cools to 21°C when vented and secretly heats your flat when the hose pops off
PSX-era visuals, 30 supported languages, autosave
No backup plan. No mercy. No leaving until day 14. Welcome to summer in Europe.
