Fix the van. Beat the funnel.
Play Hook Echo — free, in your browser
The sirens start and you have one warning window before an F5 comes down on your street. Hook Echo is a first-person tornado escape game set in a suburban subdivision you can walk into — every house on the block opens, with real floor plans, furnished rooms and a two-car garage. Somewhere in three of them are the parts your getaway van needs: a battery, a fuel can, and spark plugs. Find all three, repair the van, and drive clear of town before the funnel runs you down. The whole thing is played in black and white, shot like a silent film — grain, a soft vignette, and every warning delivered on a title card — and the sky still goes from bright to black while you search. You can hear exactly how close the tornado is — the roar gets louder AND brighter as it closes, which is the only warning you get when it's behind a house. Storm cellars in the back yards will keep you alive through a pass, but hiding never wins: the van is the only way out. Get out before touchdown and the bonus is huge.
A tornado is forming on the horizon. The countdown on your HUD is how long you have before it touches down.
The funnel does not chase you. It tracks with the storm on a fixed heading, so what matters is where it is going, not where it is — your HUD warns you when you are standing on its line, and that warning clears the moment you move out of the way.
Three van parts are hidden inside three different houses: a battery, a fuel can, and spark plugs. Front doors open with F, and every house has a real interior to search.
You are not meant to search all of them. Only the three houses holding a part have their porch light on — everything else on the block is dark. Walk the street first and read the porches.
With all three parts, walk up to the van and press F to repair it, then get in and drive.
You escape by driving the repaired van clear of the subdivision — any direction. There is no gate to find.
Storm cellars are dug into the back yards. Walk down the steps and the funnel cannot touch you, but you cannot win from down there — it only buys you a pass.
Listen. The roar tells you range: low and muffled is far away, loud and bright means it is on the other side of that wall.
Score is 300 per part recovered, 2000 for escaping, 1500 more if you got out before touchdown, plus a time bonus that bleeds away from the first siren.
Hook Echo is a free browser-based first-person tornado escape game. The name is the pendant-shaped radar signature of a supercell about to produce a tornado. You have one warning window before an F5 touches down on a suburban street. Search the neighborhood’s houses for three getaway-van parts — a battery, a fuel can, and spark plugs — repair the van, and drive clear of town before the funnel runs you down.
Yes, Hook Echo is completely free to play in your browser. No download, no signup, no paywall.
Find all three van parts hidden inside three different houses, press F at the van to repair it, then drive it clear of the subdivision in any direction. There is no specific exit to find. Escaping before the tornado touches down is worth a large bonus.
Look at the porches. Only the three houses holding a part have their porch light on, and every other house on the block is dark, so you never have to search the whole neighborhood. Walk the street once and read the lights, then go through those three front doors with F.
Storm cellars are dug into the back yards. Walking down the steps puts you below grade where the funnel cannot reach you, so you survive a pass — but you cannot win from inside one. The van is the only way out, so cellars buy time rather than safety.
You score 300 points for each van part recovered, 2000 for escaping, an extra 1500 if you got out before the tornado touched down, and a time bonus that decays from the first siren. Parts bank as soon as you pick them up, so a run that ends badly still records its progress.
Yes. Drag anywhere to look around, use the joystick to walk or steer, and the ACTION button to pick things up, open doors, and get into the van.
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