About the game
Night Zen is a 3D survival game where you mine blocks, craft tools and get through the nights on a small island. The core of the game is protecting the heart in the middle of the island: if zombies break it, you lose every item and start over from the beginning.
You start with a wooden pickaxe. Dig blocks and ore to gather materials, then get tools and gear at the emerald shop on the left and the crafting table in your room on the right. You gather resources by day, and zombies come out at night, so make sure you carry a sword.
The screen shows your health (hearts), water, hunger, experience level, armor and a tool bar at the bottom. When hunger drops you need to eat, and you can fill water at an oasis. You can also build a bed, a furnace and a wooden house, but if zombies break the house you cannot use the crafting table, furnace or bed until you tap the door spot and rebuild it.
The shop sells upgrades that shorten the time ore takes to come back (up to level 5) or raise the chance of double drops when you mine ore (up to level 3), and a wandering merchant sometimes sells things such as water bottles.
Game info
- Type
- 3D block survival
- Devices
- Computer and smartphone (landscape recommended)
- Saving
- Save button, stored in the browser
- Internet
- Needed to load the 3D library and fonts
Computer controls
- WASD to walk, mouse to look around, Space to jump
- Hold left-click to mine and attack, right-click or E to open the shop and crafting table
- Number keys to pick a tool, and hold right-click to block when you have a shield
- Q to eat food, H to see every key
Smartphone controls
- Walk with the left joystick and drag the screen to look around.
- Hold the Mine button on the right to dig blocks or attack zombies.
- There are Eat, Dash and Jump buttons, and Reload and Block buttons appear depending on the tool you hold.
- The game is laid out for a landscape screen, so a prompt asks you to turn your phone sideways. You can also just stay in portrait.
Good to know
- The top buttons open the bag, the time, commands (/), saving, camera settings, help (?), screen orientation and full screen.
- Tools include a wooden pickaxe, a wooden sword and a wooden boomerang, and you raise defense with a shield and armor.
- Your experience level goes up, and if you die you can carry on with the Respawn button.
- If zombies break the heart you lose every item and restart with a wooden pickaxe, so prepare your defenses before night falls.
- Foods fill different amounts of hunger, from 3 up to 8 for the most filling ones.
- In the control-button editing screen you can drag the buttons around and change the size of the selected button with the - and + buttons.