Rudolphin wrote:darksideby182 wrote:Gave this 20 minutes then uninstalled it, no idea what was going on other than swimming around in a circle.
[Urge to post something rude...rising....]
It's your loss, really. It's opaque at the start but it's not a hard game to understand, especially compared to other survival sims. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing but it's certainly worth more than 20 minutes of anyone's time.
It's a very opaque start, that does little to tell you what the game is about. As this was free on the Epic store, I picked it up without even knowing it was a survival sim. For some reason, I thought it was going to be a side scroller, based on presumably images I'd imagined I'd seen on the Steam store.
The very first thing I did with the game, aside from put out the fire in the escape pod, was try and swim to the wreckage of the main ship, as it was all I could see. After 250+m, I start getting injured by radiation, so what is there to do? The slow swim back to the pod. It's not a great opening experience, swimming half a km to end up back where you started.
Once you dig around in the pod, it becomes clear this is a gathering/crafting game, but even then, it's not clear what you do to gather materials. You gather materials in the ocean that aren't outwardly what you're looking for. I had to break off some limestone rock to get copper? Then acid mushrooms were a source of something else as well.
Having had a chance to get to grips with it, I get where it's going, but it makes the opening seriously difficult for those going in blind, and it's obviously a game that is not interested in guiding you towards what you need next.
As for my own progress, I've got myself a torch and an oxygen tank now, so I should be able to explore further. I could really do with finding some sulphur so I can go about getting the repair tool built.
