Desolate: Video Game Overview

Overview Desolate I could, of course, start with the phrase about the next “Russian Fallout“, But I’m afraid, in this case Andrei Makoveev Personally, it would be rushed to Peter to strangle me. Therefore, I will say differently – this is another “Russian FROM.T.BUT.L.TO.E.R.“. I have not yet used this combination, so there is more chances to survive. In any case, the essence you understood: this is a “survival” in the post-Soviet entourage, with anomalies, a habarur, pumping, quests, focusing on the plot – and, of course, with abundant use of alcoholic beverages.

Limitless freedom on the boundary

Situation – the island with the speaker name bordered. In fact, this is an analogue of the zone – a certain catastrophe has recently happened here, associated, as follows from the prologue, with the next bad experiments. And now on the railway station “Spark”, among the ruins of the cinema “South Beach”, on the background of the posters “We build a new future” roam some animal mutants and distraught people with sticks. And around full of different anomalies and contaminated places, where they suffer from poisoning or lack of oxygen.

Responsible for this disgrace “New Light” sends to the island of volunteers so that they fulfill its instructions and collected information about what is happening, helping to “explore the paranormal impact of the disaster”. As one of these volunteers, we fall on the bordered where you can go to all four sides, full of breasts breathing freedom.

Soon it turns out that in addition to the monsters and military guarding some warehouses, there is a large camp of survivors, which becomes our base – it is there that the hero is being revived after death (and it is clear, it is often often possible, it is often a workben, stove andMedical laboratory for craft, repair or treatment. There are also merchants and distributors of simple weekly quests.

How to live scary!

You can play not only in proud loneliness, but also in the company of three other “volunteers” – Desolate Supports cooperative. I do not know if it becomes easier in it (it didn’t work out), but alone at first survive really and difficult, and scary. Weapons and equipment break, the inventory is limited by weight, bandages and drugs are not enough like water. And the character between the time periodically wants to eat and drink. The level of stress is also taken into account (increases in collisions with monsters), body temperature (there are very cold snow-covered locations where bonfires have to look for), the presence of injuries, bleeding and other negative effects. And stress to remove, and the body temperature lift helps, is understandable, numerous types of alcoholic beverages.You can fasten the upgrade to weapons so that it beat, for example, also with fire.
However, at first we don’t even have a bottle of vodka, and the character goals like falcon. Therefore, you are only afraid, shakes from madness and anomalies and nervously shuddering, when suddenly it grows straight out of the air and immediately disappears terrible something. This is certainly not Resident Evil, But here, sometimes it becomes not in itself – no wonder the authors talk about horror survival.

The first plot task after we get our room on the basis of the survivors – to go through a more kilometer by mutant mutants and anomalies of the territory and kill a terrible mutant, which teleports, sleep with something bad from afar and has a solid health reserve.

Repetition – Mother of Teaching

You have to retreat, save resources and ammunition (this is the most important thing), buy or search for recipes for craft, as well as irons and toasters to improve workbench or furnace.

Still need to wander around the island, study the territory, gaining experience for the opening of new locations and attractions. New levels are purchased skills, knowledge and skills. Some increase health / endurance stocks / food efficiency. Others reduce noise when running, allow you to better hide and even highlight herbs and vegetables for collecting. Third give discounts from merchants or a certain chance to keep the details after death (these are local money). And only pretty fixing and getting good equipment, you can return and show enemies Kuzkin Mother.Shooting here is also simple, although it’s not so easy to get on this gadine.
Partly simplifies survival The fact that after the death of the character, he completely restores health, all negative statuses and injuries are removed from it, and he has as many as 10 minutes to get to the place of death and gather lost things. At the same time, you can once again and again encourage familiar boxes, where the items “rest”. So death is even useful here.

Play can be played

Yes, B Desolate there are holes, and in general it felt that it is Russian indie. Animation and sounding terrible – many monsters are not frightened, and mixed, chief holder is talking like a person with inhibitory development. Optimization is chromasted, around is full of not only anomalies, but also bugs.

The combat system cannot offer anything outstanding (blow, block, damp after learning the corresponding skills), AI enemies is primitive. Kraft also implemented quite trite, and nothing can be built here. Most plot quests are made according to the “Find, kill, bring, bring,” the characters “, and the characters are deprived of depths and motivation – why our Hero-volunteer is unquestioned in all the grave, which is moving, completely incomprehensible.The fire is allowed to cook food, boil dirty water and do all the other standard things in such situations.
However, this is exactly the above factor of the exciting study of the world, when you also become stronger at the same time, in many respects saves the game – at least, from quite a loud drop on the bottom of the “survival”.

The world here is really big, unique, with its flora and fauna. And wander around him, open a new one, study the anomalies, suddenly finding that one of them can teleport into an arbitrary area on the map, and the other is a very harmful and dangerous ghost, truly exciting.

Yes, and in the course of the plot there are quite interesting situations when we, for example, help the survivors to retire the territory of Marauders and Monsters. Or when hunting an overly talkative philosophical maniac.

The authors are not afraid of such “schricons”.
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Let it sound trite, but Desolate really leaves contradictory feelings. There are also obvious advantages, and frank cons, directly arising from the fact that we have a low-budget debut game. And yet I would recommend it to all lovers of the genre – me Desolate For some time carried away. In addition, the authors are constantly in contact with the community and promptly release updates with corrections.

Pros: Interesting and atmospheric setting;big world, full of dangers and discoveries;sufficiently detailed role-playing system;There are really interesting story quests;Cheerful cooperative.

Minuses: a simple combat system;Primitive AI;little interesting survival mechanic;poorly prescribed characters;weak animation;bad sounding;Problems with optimization.