The Flame in the Flood

初见是小学看的血舞的实况，算是小学除了mc外最想在电脑上我玩的游戏 有电脑后在游侠网上圆梦（byd还有360全家桶） 3DM版爽玩二十多个小时，模仿主播自言自语，撞船时想象有人看自己的操作捧腹大笑，被狼偷袭时夸张地大叫....steam版的无尽模式满足了我对屯资源的爽感追求（？ 他是一款我心中独一无二的佳作，把我拉进对单机游戏圈，促使我邂逅了那些可歌可泣的虚拟人物 但我很难给出推荐他的理由，他带给一个只会玩王者，cfm的孩子的震撼让我充满了对他的赞叹，哪怕是饱受诟病的操控系统我也依旧甚是喜爱，残疾般的操作手感无论是给当年屏幕前的小孩还是如今的我都带来了相当多的欢乐 the Flame in the Flood the only Key of game for me

This is gonna be some people's favorite game, and some people will bounce right off. Audiovisually, it's lovely. Coraline style poppet art, very visually distinctive, with Appalachian strumming in the background. Everything's well animated and mostly visually clear. Tbh I like this style way more than I like Don't Starve's sepia Edward Gorey type thing. Mechanically, this is a recipe crafter. Recipe crafters rely on the player building up a knowledge bank of what goes with what across multiple runs. I don't like recipe crafters. I think they're kind of a boring knowledge check of whether this particular game wants you to know that 2 Twigs and 1 Branch make a Campfire Kit when combined in the presence of the Campfire Gremlin or whatever. I can build a dang campfire irl and it has nothing to do with memorizing a recipe. Add to this, you can kinda get screwed by drop luck. Even if you know what goes with what, maybe you're just not finding a jar. Which brings us to the second part of the game's formula. Hamfistedly wrenching a boat through currents and taking hard to repair damage when you miscalculate. Controlling the boat does not feel good or intuitive, and you're encouraged to really wrangle it around to try to get to docks and shopping carts. This in turn means that you will think you can get somewhere, point yourself towards it, spam dash in its direction, fall short because of the inexplicable way the game routes you through the water, and slam into a wall for semi-permanent hp loss. It all fits with the imm-simmy vibe the game is going for. Fast moving rivers *are* hard to steer on. But it doesn't feel fun. Still, I don't wanna judge this game too harshly when I am *not* its target audience. I don't like this type of thing, and even still I think Flame In The Flood is good. If you get good at the game's systems and learns its tells, I have no doubt you can shmoove through it. And its writing and worldbuilding and artistry and a worthy reward for doing this. So yeah. If you like survival crafters and art games, absolutely grab this on sale. If you're more of a general roguelike fan like me, maybe wait until the sale's a bit deeper. I got it for a couple of bucks and I have no regrets. Edit: Gave it a second shot. Yeah, it's not for me. The raft seems to work on a pathing system, where you're not actually steering it, you're choosing which invisible line it travels on. You can boost the raft to change lines, but it's not always visually clear which line goes where. For example, I took the raft down a channel between two islands that the game didn't acknowledge, and ended up needing to boost multiple times through one of the islands taking a ton of raft damage in the process because the water was not valid water. Also, the inventory being janky makes wild animals obnoxious. You can deal with wolves if you know there's wolves before there's wolves, but the moment you know there's wolves you can't deal with wolves. I'm sure the strategy for this is some nonsense like always deploy a spear trap when you arrive on an island, but like. I'm not gonna play that way. I'm gonna go play a different game that I can enjoy.