It’s a fairly modest, but quite well put-together game. It looks like it might be some kind of survival game, but it’s basically a puzzle adventure centered around driving a giant tractor-like vehicle across a dried-up post-apocalyptic ocean.
As you might guess from that description, it’s very atmospheric. Some great (sometimes odd) music, beautiful scenery, and while I don’t know that they totally take advantage of it, driving and maintaining the vehicle is pretty clever and fun. But what I really appreciated is that it has a lot of confidence in its pacing. It’s not afraid to let you just chug along sometimes, watching the sublime landscape go by. But it also has its fair share of tense and intriguing and surprising moments.
You can probably finish it in one long session, if you try. Steam tells me I played it for 3 hours.
I’ve played a chunk of Crying Suns in beta and it’s very well done in places. I wasn’t totally enthralled by the combat minigame, but I bet it’s gotten at least a bit of love. I remember thinking the story was interesting, although sometimes told in a slightly long-winded way. Let’s hope it all comes together in the final product!
I played the demo for about 2 hours. I like the pixelie adventure stuff and the resource management, but I agree the real time battles … maybe I just didn’t get them as well.
Not sure if this is the thread for this, as it’s not out yet (even in early access), but there’s an RPG coming out in March that I’ve had my eye on for a couple months, Outward. Billed as a ‘realistic’ fantasy RPG, meaning that that it has some survival aspects, encumbrance and inventory work differently than most of these things, stamina and rest works a bit different, etc.- but most importantly (to me) you explicitly aren’t any sort of a Chosen One or Dragonborne or any such crap. You’re just an average dude wandering around doing stuff. Sure, there’s quests and whatnot, but you aren’t the lowly farmer off to save the world because of a prophecy or anything- I think the game starts with your family in debt, necessitating you needing to head off into the wide world to make money or something. Oh, yeah, and it’s fully co-op with another player- split-screen even! It really looks somewhere between Gothic/Skyrim/survival crafter.
I just watched an IGN vid talking about some of this stuff, and it looks neat.
I can’t believe they did the entire video in split screen. I’ll never play it that way, so don’t make me watch a video from that terrible perspective.
It’s kind of annoying that it’s high fantasy and cartoony. I’m right in the middle of Kingdom Come: Deliverance so I’d prefer something more like that for a “realistic” RPG.
I’ve seen a few more videos now, too- it seems they did a big press push this last week. One video was the Xbox version… with someone just having a camera trained on his TV the whole time. WTF? Mixer/Twitch is a thing.
They talked about death, though- when you die the game looks at how you died and randomly assigns one of its ‘death scenarios’- so for example, get killed by bandits? You wake up in their prison mine and have to get out. Get killed in a particular region? A hermit who lives in that region finds your body and nurses you back to health. Seems neat.
Of course, the whole thing could get really tedious, really quick.
What if you played an indie game but do not recommend it… You can’t post it hear because you don’t think other people should play it. Do you have a thread for that???
