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I'm lately obsessed with @OverlandGame, a punishing, turn-based roguelike with a ton of personality. Finding it frustrating that there's not much of a community to discuss strategy and commiserate with. This game deserves better, imo!
Overland has this amazingly minimalist approach to story-telling and character building. You start out with a character who has a couple sentences describing them. Something like "Grew up on a farm. Wishes things could just go back to normal."
Your character is usually joined by another (sometimes two, very rarely more). They all have similar small, randomly generated bios, and those along with occasional scraps of dialogue are pretty much all you get.
Oh, forgot to mention it, but some of the friendly characters desperately trying to survive and help each other through a post-apocalyptic wasteland are cute dogs.
The game play takes place on a succession of diorama-like squares. (They remind me of mini game boards, one after the next.) There's a feeling that you're playing with toys, or perhaps of being these characters incredibly limited and failing God.
Now, here's the not-for-everyone part: The game tortures you with scarcity and risk. Staying put is certain death and you need gas to move forward, but getting gas can feel impossibly hard, tempting you to move on quickly without getting enough.
If you make it to a new area you can start there next time, but always with a new set of characters. Your old characters have been permanently sacrificed for your overall progression.
The result is a series of small, tragic plays. A small group of survivors come together, they fight against impossible odds, and one by one they succumb to those odds and die. Over and over again.
And, this is how I've always imagined the apocalypse would really be. Not as a series of hard choices, moral failures, and setbacks that result in some sort of survival, but those same elements all being, ultimately, for naught.
What if you put aside your morality, kill a fellow survivor for a few gallons of gas, do everything you can to survive becoming impossibly traumatized and changed and then... just die anyway because there are too many damn alien monsters and everything's on fire?
That's Overland. I understand perfectly why it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I still kinda wish it was because I'm not that good and better strats could probably help me get past the Grasslands, at least.
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