Dead Tide Command: The Seventh Minute After the Bite

Three years after Gray Harbor fell, human survivors have been compressed into the coastal walled shelter known as White Levee, ruled jointly by the Rationing Council, the Purification Army, and the vaccine laboratory. The infected are called Tidefolk. They are no longer merely uncontrolled corpses, but a migrating dead tide drawn by some low-frequency signal, striking the walls every month. During a field evacuation, the player is bitten by a Tidefolk and should turn within seven minutes. Instead, at the seventh minute, you hear the entire horde stop breathing. When you raise your hand, the Tidefolk across the street kneel all at once. The White Levee Council wants to cut you into vaccine samples, the Purification Army wants to train you as a horde weapon, the laboratory claims you are the only key to the infection source, and the Tidefolk outside the city begin calling your childhood name at night. In a world where the living are more eager to capture you than the dead, the player must discover why they can issue commands, and who the first wave of the dead tide truly obeys.