Upcoming post-apocalyptic survival technique sport Homeseek, set to launch within the late summer season or early fall of this 12 months, has a demo out on Steam that is surprisingly savage. You actually simply… do not get to avoid wasting everybody.
On the earth of Homeseek your area of Earth, a minimum of, has develop into a dried-up dusty wasteland the place water is valuable and meals is scarce. What little water yow will discover is commonly tainted, radioactive, or toxic, and your little settlement is at all times getting ready to collapse.
The place in different video games that is usually only a thematic risk, Homeseek is damaged up into missions, every of which has an goal, and sources are properly and actually scarce. Simply taking part in the demo gave me a way of that: What little water we might pump from wells and meals we might scavenge from bushes was usually consumed that very same day. The previous few stragglers from the day’s work usually went hungry.
By the point we would discovered a approach out of the valley in the direction of a brand new dwelling, one with hopefully extra water, I would say solely about 20% of those that joined my settlement have been nonetheless alive. Your settlement sources have a carrying capability, and it is on you to search out it. (I didn’t discover it, clearly.) It is an perspective that the sport embraces. “Bear in mind, you’ll be able to’t save everybody, however you’ll be able to be sure that each misplaced citizen has contributed as a lot as potential earlier than perishing,” says one weblog publish by the builders.
It was frankly fairly cool to see a post-apocalyptic metropolis builder that is constructed a world the place you truly wish to flip away individuals in search of to hitch your village, or keep away from contact with bigger teams so as to protect your sources for the individuals you’ve got now. Alternatively, typically nevertheless you have to usher in new individuals so that somebody can function the water purification system you simply constructed.
As has develop into a staple within the style, you’ll be able to ship out expeditions into the world round your village. That usually means equipping them with a few of your valuable meals and water for in a single day journeys—which is basically thematically wealthy. Generally individuals at dwelling might want to go hungry so you’ll be able to ship meals and water with the explorers who’ll be discovering a future for the group as a complete.
I fairly loved the demo for Homeseek on Steam, and I hope that with some extra polish and mechanics refinement, together with a clearer rationalization of how its sport techniques work, it will make a pleasant contribution to the survival technique style.
