![]() You build creaking forests of drying racks to feed the workshops churning out firewood, in turn feeding the water purifiers and fish barbecues. You can build large storage areas, so you can stockpile wet wood. That’s not to say the grind becomes easier - quite the opposite. Flotsam is ultimately a strong, engaging skeleton of a city builder with little meat to chew on once you understand the interactions between its major systems. It is absolutely in your best interests to care for the wellbeing of your dedicated drifters while also fostering the growth of your floating village. Neglecting any of those essential needs for long could kill your community members, dealing a substantial blow to everyone else’s chances, as well. There is no wrong decision in how to use the trash you collect, an evil and delightful truth. Since almost everyone’s thirst meter is bottoming out and your storage is in the single digits. But that same wood should probably fuel the water purifier. That dried wood could be used to build a third boat, allowing you to bring in more resources. At it’s best, Flotsam leaves players torn between two or more decisions to address vital community needs. But those hands are powered by bodies, and I felt the strain on my already meager food and water stores immediately. You might even delight at finding a pair of stranded folk on an island as you progress through the game’s maps. constructing your boatĪfter constructing your first boat, you might feel a rhythm to Flotsam: set buoys to direct your drifter’s scavenging efforts, assign someone to desalinating water and another to construction and upkeep of your floating barge-city. They know work means the difference between life and death, but everyone must eat, drink and sleep at some point. Better ways to distill water, find food or maybe even eel-ectricity? Thus enters the second of Flotsam’s interconnected systems: worker management. Find old world technology and learn how to recycle it into something that will benefit your town. It’s not every day you find yourself stranded in a feel good apocalypse world. Quirky people working and living in a colorfully stylized floating town in a lush and vibrant blue ocean. but hauling loads of plastic and driftwood is thirsty work, and fresh water is the literal lifeblood of your fledgling community. InfraSpaceĬollecting enough will allow you to build walkways, beds, tool sheds and more. You don’t start with canoes or even rafts, and your crew must paddle into the open waves to bring back the eponymous flotsam. Half of the game consists of managing the recollection of trash from floating resource piles. So, you go about strapping planks to boards and boards to metal and metal to anything else to construct the most immediately necessary tools for feeding yourself and your motley crew of castaways. Land is scarce and, the game intimates, too dangerous for personal settlement monstrous tidal waves festooned with deadly garbage regularly sweep away anything that doesn’t float. You begin the game with a floating water reservoir, three “drifters”, and not much else. But once resources start running low or you just don’t like the view: scout ahead and move your town to a new interesting location. They each have their likes and dislikes, the things they are good at and the things you better leave to another drifter. The people in the world of Flotsam are quirky. The sun is shining, the sky is clear and the ocean is calm… mostly at least. It’s about going on adventures, seeing the world and cleaning it up as you go. The world of Flotsam is a colorful and cheerful place. Save the poor souls and welcome them aboard in your family of drifters. Food scarcity, garbage floods and storms left settlers and animals stranded and in need of your help.
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