HOW IT WORKS
You are a G.A.R.B. reclaimer. The planet is the progress bar. Here is everything the Bureau forgot to tell you.
Land
You touch down at Habitability 8. The sky is brown. Something is chewing on the Landing Beacon.
Clean, contain, repair
Vacuum debris, cut bulk waste, seal barrels, spray spores, bring machinery online. Each subscore — waste, water, air, soil, biology, ecology, infrastructure — feeds the Habitability Index.
Decide at 75
Contract complete. Extraction authorized. Extract for a guaranteed payout — or stay for multipliers up to ×8 and an apex organism that would very much like a word.
Habitability bands
| From | Band | Reward | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Hostile | ×1 | — |
| 25 | Unstable | ×1 | — |
| 50 | Recovering | ×1 | — |
| 75 | Habitable · contract complete | ×1 | Elevated |
| 76 | Extended Reclamation | ×1.5 | Elevated |
| 85 | Advanced Reclamation | ×2 | High |
| 90 | Extreme Reclamation | ×3 | Severe |
| 95 | Pristine Attempt | ×5 | Extreme |
| 100 | PRISTINE WORLD | ×8 | Complete |
Rewards are calculated from your peak band. Habitability can fall after 75 — infrastructure can be lost, spores spread — but the extraction right you earned never does. Emergency extraction after a defeat keeps the base reward and forfeits part of the risk bonus.
The belt
Plus the Scanner (right click): identifies organisms, waste and hazards and tells you the recommended action. Protected species must be scanned before you can relocate them. Some tools unlock with credits earned on contracts.
PC controls
| WASD / Arrows | Move |
| Mouse | Camera / aim |
| Left click | Use current tool / fire |
| Right click | Scanner |
| Q / E · scroll | Previous / next tool |
| 1 – 7 | Select tool |
| Space | Dodge |
| F (hold) | Interact: repair, relocate, activate |
| Esc / P | Pause |
Controller
Plug in an Xbox, PlayStation or other standard gamepad and press any button — Chrome, Edge and Firefox pick it up automatically. Left stick moves, right stick looks, RT uses the tool, LT scans, X interacts, B dodges, bumpers switch tools, Start pauses.
Mouse capture
Click the game once to capture the mouse for camera control. Esc releases it (and pauses). Fullscreen is the button above the game or F11 in most browsers.
Saving
The web edition saves your career, credits, equipment, callsign and settings in this browser automatically (every 30 seconds, on pause, on leaving the tab, and on extraction). Come back on the same browser and device and you continue where you left off. No registration. Clearing site data for aliengarb.com deletes the save; private/incognito windows do not keep it. Account linking and cloud save are planned so a career can follow you between devices — see the roadmap on the support page.