You need to find a way to escape the wretched island. A world with no other human soul to be seen. A world inhabited with nasty and vile creatures. Whenever you rest, it also respawns all the enemies.As you ascend from your shelter after the long long years, a brave new old world awaits you. A fast travel system exists where you can travel between radio towers you find. The game uses campfires that you can find and use as resting points where you can store all collected materials and do a lot of different things, depending on what you have unlocked. In-game map is excellent, very detailed and easy to read and orient yourself. Points of interest, creatures, kills, medals, recipes, amount of materials you have, everything is diligently tracked and you can always look it up. The game even keeps track of absolutely everything. Light RPG mechanics, stats for items, tools you craft (crowbar, machete…), your own stats, trinkets, inventory, outfits and small quests. Everything you do increases your experience and when you get a level you can pick a new skill. You just re-spawn at the last campfire and can go pick up your fresh corpse with all the stuff you had on you when you died. You can replenish your health with bandages or food you can cook and the first time you eat a new recipe your health is permanently increased. It is sort of a light survival game, but there are no needs, you only have a health bar. Combat is a simple swing dodge mechanic, but it’s very smooth and responsive and you do need to be careful to not get overwhelmed because enemies do hit hard. There’s enough enemy variety and each part of the map gets something new. Hey, you need their skins and meat for survival, don’t judge. In the process of smashing with glee, collecting and building stuff, you’ll get to whack some enemies and some wildlife. More importantly, populated by sooooo many things for you to smash, destroy and pulverize into pieces, collect what remains and then use those remains to craft or upgrade one of the bajillion things available to you. You start the game emerging from an underground shelter after who knows how many years of isolation into a world completely abandoned and populated by things that want to eat your face off. There are radios you can find that have a great, slightly cheeky and sarcastic, voice with helpful messages and warnings. Story is typical planet got vaporized by something lonely survivor material, but it takes a backseat to all the stuff you can do in-game. The world is a dangerous place, and you may take a few steps back once in a while, but eventually you will thrive. You will get more powerful, and unlock permanent upgrades. You won’t be constantly looking for a tasty cockroach to fill your over-metabolic stomach while waiting for the unavoidable bliss that is death. You will not be fighting just to maintain the status quo. Fight using various melee and ranged weapons. Or run away and come back when you’re stronger. Harvest their organs and provide them eternal rest. Something vile has affected most of the wildlife and former human inhabitants of the island - turning them into aggressive beast-like creatures. The world after the end is inhabited by nasty creatures. Find hidden treasures and solve puzzles long ago forgotten. Explore the vast hand-crafted open world and build Outposts to establish your presence. Find Recipes to craft permanent items and upgrades. There is a reasonable number of different materials to gather. Do that, and collect the sweet nectar of the old world: plastics, rubber, and metals. Over 99% of everything can be broken for materials Acquire materials with almost magic-like properties and use them to craft insanely powerful gear. Or go deeper and recover the ancient lost knowledge from the hidden tomb chambers of the old ones. Gain technological advantage against the hostile environment. Explore the ruins of the past and discover technology from the hitech era. Unravel the mysteries of the strange island. Cook delicious recipes for permanent stat and ability upgrades. Solve puzzles above ground and underground in the Tombs of the Old Ones Fish cunning scaly things under the watery surface. Farm nutritious plants and reap the rewards as the crop gets ripe. Hunt various game or tame them for your post-apocalyptic zoo ranch.
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