The Reservoir

A serious sustainability simulation about shared scarcity, regional pressure, and long-term stewardship. Compete for near-term prosperity without collapsing the basin that every region depends on.

90-minute premium simulation Systems thinking Shared resource leadership

Start or join a basin

Use one room code for all regions. Teams compete, but the reservoir is shared by everyone.

Player guide

Objective: Build the strongest region without draining the shared reservoir that every team depends on.

Setup: Join the basin room with the code from your facilitator. Your group plays as one regional leadership team.

How to play: Every round, teams choose water extraction, regional strategy, and collective stance. Choices affect prosperity, public stability, sustainability, and the shared basin level.

Your role: Debate the tradeoffs, submit your region's choices, and watch how local gains affect the shared basin.

End condition: Rank teams by balanced regional outcome. If the basin collapses, treat it as a collective systems failure before discussing individual scores.

Shared basin preview

Regions compete over one living reservoir. What looks like a local win can become a basin-wide collapse.

Visible live metrics in play
Reservoir level Regional prosperity Public stability Sustainability
Room code
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Regions

Players

Host controls

Round

Reservoir level 100
Watershed health 100
Your team -

Your region decision

Any teammate can update your shared plan before the host advances the round.

1. Water extraction

2. Regional strategy

3. Collective stance

Team note

Regional standings

Host controls

Round history

Final results

Leaderboard

Last basin state

Reservoir
Watershed
Rounds played

Facilitator note

Use the result patterns to debrief how teams balanced growth, public pressure, and shared stewardship under scarcity.