Potato plants grow on some islands, but I’ve yet to discover the baking length of this game’s potatoes. What? Eating it, a crab the size of your head, sates your hunger for less than two hours. It turns out you have to hold it in the fire (not “put in it”, as they roll back out, and not “use it with” as that’s not an option) for about three in-game hours. You can build a campfire, you can hold a crab over it and hear a crackling noise, and do this for a long time and still instantly get sick if you eat that crab. (If there’s a way to build the rest of a shelter, then my piling up wood, string, logs, palms and rocks until the game ground to a complete halt didn’t offer it.)Ĭooking is all over the place.
#DTRANDED DEEP CASTAWAY PC GAME HOW TO#
The opening gives you an extremely poor micro-tutorial on how to make a martini (no, really), but it doesn’t apply to the game proper, and certainly doesn’t explain about why you need to be holding a hammer to build the foundations for a shelter, but can’t actually swing it. But that doesn’t extend to not bothering to explain the gamey elements. It’s a survival game, and learning what you can do with your scant tools and items can makes sense as a process of exploration and elimination. There’s an argument to be made for not explaining lots of this stuff. And hunger rapidly becomes impossible to sate. However, you seem to get hungry a lot sooner than you get thirsty – water can comfortably be ignored for days. Eventually, by blind luck, you might discover that the watch hidden on the F key can be changed to a rudimentary health/hunger guide by clicking a mouse button.
#DTRANDED DEEP CASTAWAY PC GAME TRIAL#
By trial and error you eventually figure out that no, you can’t rearrange objects in your inventory so they’re assigned to specific number keys, and no, there’s absolutely no rationale to your health, hunger or thirst. Including the key-bindings once you’re in-game. (Because everything’s a physics-laden object, creating those piles is a test of the engine, and put too much in one place in the desperate hope it might make a shelter and it’ll grind to a confused halt.)Īlong with the crafting, absolutely nothing else is explained. And no memory of ingredients needed for anything you’ve previously built. There’s no guide, no sense of the correct numbers of sticks, bindings, logs or whatever needed to build something. Rather than being done through a menu, or something like The Forest’s book, here it’s about piling items near each other, holding the correct tool in your hand, and then if you’ve the right things in the right place, you can select something to make. On paper, the crafting sounds like a great idea.
Chop down trees, hack logs into sticks, and gather palm fronds, and then discover its crafting. With these starting materials, you can build yourself an axe, a mallet, a campfire, and a bed. The islands themselves possess sticks, rocks, yukka plants and palm trees, as well as crabs. If you’re unlucky, as I was for my first three plays, there will be bugger all. If you’re lucky, your spawning island may be surrounded by wrecks with equipment and tools. All the islands are tiny, and all the islands are incredibly similar. Once you’ve survived your plane crash, you swim up to a life raft, and paddle your way to the nearest tiny island. This has to be something pretty special, surely? Colour me bemused. The early access project is, at the time of writing, the fourth biggest seller on Steam. Within a day of release, Stranded Deep had 700 gushing positive reviews on Steam. It’s another survival game! But still, the midpoint between The Forest and Salt sounds like a brilliant place to be.
Stranded on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, you’re equipped with only a knife, water bottle, and whatever you can scavenge. Well, at first glance it looks extraordinarily like The Forest, as it opens with the extremely familiar idea of a plane crash.
At first glance, Stranded Deep looks like a halfway point between The Forest and Salt.
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