A team made up of former BioShock, Halo, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band designers have teamed up for a new PC and Mac game called The Flame in the Flood. The studio behind the project, Cambridge, Mass.-based The Molasses Flood, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the game, asking for $150,000 to make the project a reality.

What’s The Flame in the Flood all about? The developer describes it as a “a rogue-lite river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.”

In the game, which runs on the Unreal Engine 4, you’ll travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally generated river in areas inspired real-life places like the Everglades, the Louisiana Bayou, and the Mississippi Delta. In order to stay alive, you’ll need to seek out resources, craft tools, escape dangerous wildlife, and stay ahead of downpours of rain. “Your journey has an end. Will you survive long enough to reach it?” reads a line from the game’s description.

You play as Scout, a “loner wanderer, schooled in the art of wilderness survival.” According to The Molasses Flood, she has “seen a bit of everything” and “knows how to deal with the challenges of staying alive in a land that isn’t interested in helping.”

Another key element of The Flame in the Flood is permadeath. “When you’re done, you’re done, and if you don’t make it, you go back to the head of the river to try again,” the studio says. You won’t lose everything, however, if you die. Your dog, Aesop, will meet you when you respawn, carrying everything you obtained when you died. “A small mercy from an otherwise cruel fate,” the developer says.

Music is also a big part of the The Flame and the Flood, as it features an original soundtrack by American singer/songwriter Chuck Ragan.

Pledging at least $20 gets you a digital copy of The Flame in the Flood, which is expected to launch sometime around July 2015. For more on the game, be sure to check out its Kickstarter page.

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