Neo Scavenger, survival game by ex Bioware employee

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a) Was 2013 the year of the Roguelike? What famous RL games came out then? Surely 2012 was, with FTL and other such games? (I’d also say 2013 was the year of the survival sim ;))

b) I saw this game in the indie thread and posted about my impressions of the demo there.

@Pod

This is a pretty cool game, though it’s built on really shitty technology with terrible resolution options. The game wasn’t what I expected – I expected hex, turned based combat. Instead it was a kind of choose your own adventure, but I like it. I stumbled around the area, found a few clothes and sleeping bags, went to sleep, got woken in the night by a bandit and beat him to death with a stick in a midnight duel – he wast mostly running away, the coward, took his stuff and carried it all around in 2 cardboard boxes, stumbled around thirsty looking for water and then got into another fight with 2 bandits. I found it hard to visualise this battle as both people were listed as “bandit” in the blurry log and I couldn’t tell which one was attacking me at what moment. In the end I died, though I think one of them was about to die.

Why couldn’t I talk to them? :'(

Also, I had the tracking skill but couldn’t make a fire?

So, not that I am going to buy this game (I have a hard time reading the text, even with ‘filter’ on), but there’s 5 different buying options on the site. The 3 main choices are: Buy it from the developer, buy it on desura, buy it on Steam, all offering different bonuses…

which one are you guys choosing?