Listen to the valley
Sound you can read.
: Shadows of Zagros
Find a way into Shar. Search for Jaffan.
A realistic first-person survival game set in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.
In development
Chapter 01
The search
Two years ago Jaffan went into the valley and never came back. Every time the Tide comes, Akam’s old radio picks up his brother’s voice, calling his name from somewhere deep inside the cordon.
Chapter 02
A real place
Folded limestone ridges. Dry golden steppe. Coppiced oak on the foothills, black poplars in rows along the road, and a village of flat-roofed, whitewashed houses climbing the slope in steps, its roofs lived on. AKAM is built to look and sound like the Zagros of Iraqi Kurdistan.
In-engine capture · development build · 15 Oct 2026
When the siren sounds, get indoors.
Chapter 03
The Tide
The Tide gives warning. The sky turns copper and the haze thickens. The civil-defense siren over Shar starts to wail, the birds go quiet and the radio fills with static. Then the surge front arrives, and anyone caught outside takes the dose. A concrete wall and a closed door are the difference.
In the build today The Tide cycle with all four phases below, the siren and shelters.
Calm
The cycle runs every 45 minutes by default. Between Tides, the radio is quiet.
Warning
The sky turns copper and the haze thickens. The siren sounds across the valley, wildlife falls silent and the radio warns you.
Surge
A grey-green fog wall and a darker sky. Outside a shelter you take radiation and psy exposure; the dosimeter clicks faster and static rises.
Aftermath
The surge passes and the valley goes quiet again.
In development The valley changing after each Tide.
Chapter 04
Weight in every shot
Bullets fly, slow down and drop. Recoil climbs, and you pull it down. Sway grows with fatigue and wounds, and moves where the round lands. You check the magazine by feel, not by a number on the screen.
Seven body zones. Bleeding, fractures and pain each need the right treatment, and a wounded arm shakes your aim.
- Simulated ballistics with drag, drop and a 100 m zero
- Seven body zones, each wound with its own treatment
- Magazine checked by feel
- No ammo counter, no crosshair
Chapter 05
Listen
Every surface sounds different underfoot. Shots echo off the ridges a beat later. Indoors, the wind drops away. When the insects stop, pay attention.
10 surfaces underfoot
Footsteps layer the sole and the ground, and never repeat back to back.
Echoes off the ridges
Distant shots arrive late, delayed by real distance at the speed of sound.
The sound of the Tide
A civil-defense siren, Geiger clicks and radio static, made for the game.
From the valley
Walls and beams 
Steppe and ridge 
At the village edge 
The lower row 
Outlying houses
From the devlog
All posts
A village on the hill
Forty-three houses, stepped up the foothill.
A road, two houses and honest light
The road and the buildings become regional.
AKAM is in development. Everything on this site is captured in-engine from the current build. Features marked “In development” or “Planned” are not playable yet. There is no release date, price or store page.
What’s in the build todayWriting about AKAM? The press kit has the fact sheet, descriptions, screenshots and logo.
Press kit