Water is a meeting place
Water keeps you alive, but herds, rivals, and human pressure gather around it. Arrive quietly, inspect the shoreline, and avoid treating a drink as a risk-free pause.
Know the savanna.
Never know everything.
WildLives reveals the world through animal senses. Start with these playable-system guides, then enter the field and learn what changes around you.
01 / PLAYABLE REFERENCES
Start with the systems that keep a lion alive.
These references describe the current LION release candidate: its shipped controls, transferable browser saves, senses, and physical-condition simulation.
01Getting started
First-day survival and controls
Choose a living-world slot, move with the camera, find water, manage risk, save, and understand the release-candidate test gates.
Read guide → 02Animal sensesWind, scent, tracks, and stalking
Use the Q-key sense focus, read wind direction, approach prey quietly, and understand how weather and ground change information.
Read guide → 03Physical conditionWater, heat, rest, and energy
Balance movement, sprinting, drinking, food, temperature, injury recovery, rest, sleep, and shelter.
Read guide →Night changes the balance
Cooler conditions reduce heat pressure, while visibility and animal routines change around you. The world clock, state line, and journal help explain what your lion currently knows.
Every prey is different
Zebra, buffalo, giraffe, elephant, wildebeest, and other animals use different health, speed, awareness, group, water, flight, and defensive behavior.
Rest is not safety
R rests at accelerated time; Z sleeps and heals faster. Nearby danger can block or interrupt sleep, so recovery works best after you have read the area.
The ecosystem continues
Weather, water, populations, territory, relationships, human pressure, and longer histories persist inside the selected living-world slot.
Release candidate means acceptance in progress
The full LION simulation is playable; browser endurance, balance, assistive-technology review, and owner long-session acceptance remain final test gates.