I’m unsure how I really feel about the way in which Flotsam makes our impending ecological catastrophe look so inviting. It’s a floating metropolis builder the place you assemble every thing out of scavenged ocean junk, whereas ensuring your seaborne survivors don’t run out of water that received’t kill them. I’ve leapt straight to chatting about demise and catastrophe, although, when Flotsam payments its apocalypse as “feel-good”. This is why I don’t get invited to extra events.
It’s out now on early entry, have a gander.
You begin off feebly, casting about for wooden and detritus to construct up fundamental facilities. You’ll quickly have a ship or two, which allow you to mosey round a number of surviving islands for sources and tech blueprints, and finally construct sails that allow you to tow your complete city off to pastures anew. I imagine these pastures are additionally coated in junk, however that’s Flotsam’s complete deal.
Who knew environmental smash might look so soothing.
I’m being glib, however it’s good to have a game that revolves round recycling. Even although recycling is only one small a part of avoiding a disaster we’re going to proceed lurching in direction of for so long as industrial polluters proceed to run amok and our financial programs proceed to endorse ravenous useful resource use.
RPS vidbud Alice Liguori has already taken to the seas, discovering that Flotsam’s serene ocean glow hides a frightening problem. I’ve been lulled. We have all been lulled.
Developers Pajama Llama Games plan to spend the following yr bobbing out in early entry, including “game-spanning quests, huge projects to craft, and extra stories about the flooded world”. There’ll be extra methods to scout, salvage, and scoot about, too.
Flotsam’s floating for £18/$22.50/€21 on Steam.
