From the Art Director of BioShock and a team of veterans of the BioShock, Halo, Guitar Hero and Rock Band series comes The Flame in the Flood.
Travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river as you scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy afflictions, evade the vicious wildlife, and most importantly, stay ahead of the coming rains.
Featuring an original full length soundtrack by acclaimed Alt-Country rocker Chuck Ragan featuring The Camaraderie, The Fearless Kin and other special guests.
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Highlights:
Journey Down the River: Travel down a long, winding and completely unique procedurally-generated river, through environments inspired by the Everglades, Mississippi Delta, Louisiana Bayou, and other quintessentially American places. Your journey has an end. Will you survive long enough to reach it?
Authentic Survival: With survival tactics and wilderness dangers based on real-life references, staying alive until the end will mean staying warm, staying dry, staying healthy, and avoiding the ravenous wildlife that wants to eat you.
A unique world inspired by backwater America: Post-Apocalypse or just Post-Society? Did it all end with a bang or a whimper? The world of The Flame in the Flood explores what happens on the fringes when civilization gives up the ghost.
Music from Chuck Ragan: Featuring an original full length soundtrack by acclaimed Alt-Country rocker Chuck Ragan featuring The Camaraderie, The Fearless Kin and other special guests.
Story:
It was clear the time to move had come when the first rain fell and the cloud mass that spoke of the coming flood rolled south. Scout lashed her few belongings to her raft and set out for higher ground as the water drowned her cook fire. Her only companion the dog whom she had raised from a pup after finding it tangled in a muddy old sack in a river eddy. Her journey would take her through unfamiliar lands of crumbling relics from long ago. It would be a hungry trek, with scarce supplies, cold winds and rain always chasing and weakening her. She would have to build her own supplies from the pieces of scrap she could scrounge, conserve her food for long tracts of barren scrubland, ration what clean water she could find for the days ahead.
“Salvation lies at the end of the river” people say. Scout and her old dog have a long and terrifying journey ahead of them.
Gameplay:
Surviving the hostile post-societal wilderness is no picnic. Scrounge for food and supplies, evade the ravenous wild-life, seek out shelter, maintain your raft, and stay healthy. And most important of all, make sure you’re gone when the rains arrive.
Looting and Crafting
The land is dangerous but bountiful, and if you know what you’re looking for, you might just live. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for, perhaps you can make it, if you have the pieces.
Afflictions and Remedies
Snake bites, fatigue, hypothermia, open wounds, and infection are just some of the ways the world will try to kill you. Happily every affliction has its remedies, whether traditional herbal cures, wound-dressings, or simply a solid night’s sleep. Knowing which remedies slow or stop which afflictions is what separates a babe in the woods from a master survivalist.
One piece of advice: address your afflictions in a timely manner, before they develop into something worse.
AI Ecology
Everything needs to eat to survive, and to your predators, you’re just a sack of food wrapped in a buckskin parka and cute hat. Like the river itself, our AI encounters are procedurally generated, and the NPCs behave according to rules governing hunger, fear, aggression, and territory. You’ll need to use stealth, traps, distractions, timing, and your wits to avoid becoming a feast for scavengers.
Permadeath
When you’re done, you’re done, and if you don’t make it, you go back to the head of the river to try again.
But remember: Aesop your faithful hound, will be back with whatever he was carrying at the time of your last death. A small mercy from an otherwise cruel fate.
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It's on RIN but it's in the "unreleased Steam games" thread, uploaded by Robot111. I tried it and it's looking to be really fun.. but.. how the bloody hell do you fill your canteen with water? Floating down a RIVER, falling off the raft and getting WET, but can't fill canteen and prevent myself from dying of dehydration
@Sabine: I guess it has to do with the water being too salty for consumption so that's why she isn't collecting it. Maybe there is some sort of filter/boiling feature in the game?
There is, you can drink "unknown water" or you can use a campfire to boil it. I still don't know how to COLLECT water :\
stay near water => inventory -> click the bottle and select refill
Almost died in my first rafting trip - ended up just with couple broken bones
=> in the end got eaten by the wolf righte after that (glorious 1.5km traveled)
“The Flame in the Flood is a game built thanks to the support of the community via Kickstarter, and is designed to be replayable. We want to get as much feedback as possible while we finish development to make sure it's the best possible game it can be. Additionally, as a procedurally generated game, it's easy to add significant updates throughout early access, so players can come back repeatedly and see changes to the game.”
Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“We expect to be in early access for around 6 months.”
How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
“The full version is expected to be a more feature rich version compared to the early access version. Our goal is to have more things for the player to do, and more art to fill the world that they are exploring.”
What is the current state of the Early Access version?
“The current version is an early beta. Most the features and gameplay are present, but there's still a lot more that we can add and polish.”
Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?
“Our early access pricing is the same as our launch price.”
Must be the result of jumping into one of those misfortunate alternate universes, where instead of Comstock you have Trump and the Luteces turn out to be members of the flat earth society. No wonder the poor Elizabeth looks so distressed!
Must be the result of jumping into one of those misfortunate alternate universes, where instead of Comstock you have Trump and the Luteces turn out to be members of the flat earth society. No wonder the poor Elizabeth looks so distressed!
Booze, Stoner music and various forms of spiritual enlightenment could be the culprits too
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Let's hope someone leaks the backer beta, eh? 
Floating down a RIVER, falling off the raft and getting WET, but can't fill canteen and prevent myself from dying of dehydration 
but i guess thats normal now especially for kickstarter projects
