That’s me down there. Clodagh Waugh, finally got out of my rags and into some decent armour thanks to unlocking flinthead arrows and murdering a large deer family. Cooking station behind me, and a raft in front (behind the photographer) ready to sail off if I feel like it.
I’ve fallen in love with it. I don’t think there’s ever been a more relaxing survival game. It’s challenging but stress-free so far. The art style is unique; 90s retro munged with modern-day, munged with Turner. It’s exactly the kind of retro I can get behind. The music is lovely, warbly, wandering oboe and violin folk-jazz which sounds much better than that description.
The building seems finicky to start with, and I’m finding myself favouring kb + m for the first time in years although it does support controller, even if it says it doesn’t really. That finicky-ness though; it leads to exactly the kind of ramshackle, imprecise buildings that make it believable, and make each building yours.
This is a game that could accommodate a very relaxed group of us just bimbling around when we fancy and hooking up to take on the larger foes that seem to lurk around the edge of the meadows. I fear I’ll be trying to get you lot to try it for a very long time indeed.
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