The most unfortunate thing about these medical emergencies is that they usually cause Scout’s other stats, like hunger or body temperature, to drop rapidly. If any of these ailments are left untreated, they might worsen and create further complications. Poison ivy and brambles can leave her cut up and itchy. Boars, snakes, wolves, and bears roam the wilderness just waiting to attack, inflicting bites, broken bones, and lacerations. It seems like everything is out to get her. Of course, the river is not going to make things easy for Scout. Each location has a limited amount of supplies, though, so once it has been cleaned out, it’s time to move on to somewhere new down the river. Plants can be collected to use as food, medicine, or crafting material, animals can be hunted for food and clothing, and other random scraps from abandoned towns, buildings, and vehicles can be used for various purposes. Other objects to craft generally fall into five main categories: food, medical supplies, clothing, animal traps, and raft upgrades.īut to make stuff, she first needs to gather supplies. She will need to build basic tools, like knives and hammers, in order to make the other things she needs to stay alive. At most, Scout can build a campfire to rest in one location for a day or so, exploring the area in order to gather as much food and supplies as can be found before she must leave.Ĭrafting is key to survival, but Scout won’t be crafting shelter. Here, staying in one place is not an option. This requires her to keep moving, which is the key element that differentiates The Flame in the Flood from similar titles, such as Don’t Starve, where the goal is usually to build a shelter for safety, then keep acquiring more supplies and building more things to live as long as possible. Scout’s main goal is to travel down the river to a safe location, following a radio signal that promises sanctuary. Primarily, it accomplishes this with its unique river setting. But The Flame in the Flood manages to inject some fresh ideas into the formula which help it to stand out. It’s a genre that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years, with many similar titles appearing all over the Steam marketplace. To put it plainly, this is a survival game with crafting mechanics and randomly-generated locations. An approaching cloud mass signals an impending flood, so Scout boards a raft and embarks on a journey down the river to safety. In a post-societal world where humanity is scarce and towns lay abandoned and falling into disrepair, Scout finds herself fighting for survival with only her dog, Aesop, to keep her company. The Flame in the Flood (Xbox One, PC, Mac)
Now if only she could find a bit of food and some decent shelter… Surviving the deadly rapids and even deadlier wildlife will not be easy, but at least Scout has a faithful canine companion by her side. Such is the life of Scout in The Flame in the Flood, the debut game from newly-formed studio The Molasses Flood. If I don’t find shelter soon, this might be the end for me. And to top it all off, the rain simply refuses to stop! I’ve been soaked to the bone for days, and the temperature keeps dropping. They won’t hold me over for very long, I’m afraid. Since I couldn’t kill the boar, I have no food left, save for a handful of mulberries. That damn boar broke my arm, and I haven’t been able to scrounge up the supplies to make a proper splint. I’ve been drifting down this river for weeks now, and I’m starting to get desperate.
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