Homeseek, a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set to release later this summer or early fall, has a demo on Steam, and it’s surprisingly savage. You really…can’t save everyone.
In the world of Homeseek, at least your part of the globe has become a dry, dusty wasteland where water is scarce and food is scarce. What little water you can find is often contaminated, radioactive, or toxic, and your little settlement is constantly on the brink of collapse.
Where other games are often just thematic threats, Homeseek is broken up into missions, each with a purpose and scarce resources. I just played the demo and figured it out. The little water that can be pumped from a well or the food that can be scavenged from bushes is often consumed within the day. The last few dropouts from the day’s work were often hungry.
By the time we found our way out of the valley to our new home, hopefully with more water, I think only about 20% of those who joined my settlement were still alive. increase. Your settlement resources have capacity and it is your responsibility to find them. (Obviously, I couldn’t find it.) That’s the attitude this game adopts. “Remember, we can’t save everyone, but we can make sure we contributed as much as we could to every lost nation before it perished,” the developer wrote in a blog post. .
Frankly, it’s like the post-apocalyptic city builders actually want to turn away people who try to join their villages, or avoid contact with larger groups in order to preserve resources for those who are now. It was pretty cool to see them building the world. On the other hand, however, you may need to hire new people so that someone can operate the water purification system you just built.
As has become a staple of the genre, you can send expeditions to the world around your village. That often means providing them with precious food and water for overnight trips. This is really thematically rich. Sometimes the people in the house need to go hungry so they can send food and water to the explorers trying to find the future for the entire group.
I really enjoyed the demo of Steam home seekand hopefully a little more refinement and refinement of the mechanics, along with a clearer explanation of how the game system works, making a nice contribution to the survival strategy genre.
