About This Game

Features

• Dual Realms Exploration
  Exprience two world integrated. Make peace with the external Jihad: A logical and realistic desert that is contrasted with the greater inner Jihad, a intuitive and abstract world. The wisdom and insights from this world is intertwined with the other
  (The player may adjust if they want to focus on one realm over the other)
  
• Realistic survival
  Whispers of the sands is partially a survival game, but not a typical one
  Managing your heat is key since it generates thirst. Movement generates heat, Exposure to Sun or fire generates heat. Stillness and the night generates cold.
  Caves negates both heat and cold while wind makes the heat hotter and cold colder
  Pay attention and let the desert teach you how to find food, water, ingredients and useful items
  
• True Meditation
  Meditation is not just a visual gimmick but is based on true meditation techniques and spiritual insights
  
• Alchemy
  Prepare and mix ingredients to create potions that can aid your survival in the desert or go deeper in meditation
  
• Dream world
  In sleep you enter a dreamworld where you may remember lessons learned and find new connections
  
• Story
  Whispers of the sands is a mere framework in wich the player cocreates reality and meaning
  Make a journey that mirrors real challenges on the road to enlightenment
  Learn stories from past desert dwellers such as a dervish dancer and an ancient cave dwelling people
  
• Spi-fi
  Journey into a “spiritual fiction” fantasy world with spiritual themes from Sufism, Nondualism, Vedanta, Taosm, Zen and Buddhism
  
• Poetry
  Relevant poems will accompany your journey from poets such as Rumi and Ibn Arabi, 13th - 12th century Sufi mystics
  
• UE5 technologies
  A seamless vast open desert to explore with day and night cycle
  Nanite models and Lumen lightning
  True blacks: Optimized for Oled screens and HDR deep dark areas are 100% black