The Flame in the Flood a very rewarding survival game

The Flame in the Flood is a wilderness survival game in which a girl and her dog travel on foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river. It's vitally important that the player scours every nook and cranny for useful items for their journey ahead, and to make matters worse there's limited inventory space that makes even early Resident Evil games seem generous. However, this is easier said than done, with player character Scout needing to use every last drop of her survival and crafting abilities to make it through.


While other games have a stronger focus on crafting, The Flame in the Flood uses a blend of that with the critical decisions being made not on what to make, but what to keep. The Flame in the Flood is a fairly traditional survival game on land, as it happens: scavenge and craft your way from weakness to fleeting strength as you explore this ragged chunk of downhome, post-apocalyptic, post-Katrina Americana that's delivered in watery greys and greens with sudden bursts of orange or throbbing blues. You spend the game on a raft guiding Scout and her dog, Aesop, down a rushing river, trying to survive long enough to figure out why everyone went to the Rapture.


The Flame in the Flood successfully captures the intricacies of a better class of survival games and wraps them in a very neat, very pretty package, complete with an awesome alternative-country soundtrack by Chuck Ragan It also adds a sense of urgency in its narrative, a unique and engaging challenge in the procedurally generated world, the ability to actually ‘complete' the game via the campaign mode, and, ultimately, a great satisfaction in making it through to the other side and seeing just what truths wait at the river's end.


Gathering and crafting are, naturally, at the heart of The Flame in the Flood and the game's crafting system is one of the best I've encountered in a long time. Scout's story kicks off when a strange dog, Aesop, turns up at her post-apocalyptic campsite carrying a backpack bearing a strange symbol, with a radio inside it. Scout wastes no time deciding to set out in search of the sender and thus begins your journey into the stylishly beautiful wilderness of The Flame in the Flood. This is an excellent video game, survival at its best, especially if you are not that attracted by zombie-apocalypses.

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