It'd also help to identify assailants if they were to attack at night. I was excited about the torch at first - somewhere along the line I'd found a cigarette lighter, which was useful when scavenging in gloomy buildings and at night, but a torch would surely improve my chances of finding precious things tucked away in dark corners. It contained a bundle of ragged t-shirts, some broken bottles, a torch and a bladed multitool. Shortly before that catastrophe, I'd discovered a stash in a woodland area. Or at least to trade and maybe pass the time around a campfire swapping stories, and learning about the lay of the land.Īnd then my carrier bag fell apart, spilling my water and whiskey. I'd only met one person since waking in a cowardly new world and the encounter hadn't gone particularly well, but I was determined to make friends. If you read the previous entry of this diary, you'll know that I'd gathered some vital but meagre belongings, and had been lugging them around in the cold and the rain while looking for a settlement of some sort. Despair.įlash forward to the near future survivalist horrors of NEO Scavenger and history repeats itself. A tub of icecream rolled straight into the canal I was walking alongside and a clementine bounced off my shoe. Nothing unusual about that but, like unlucky sadist Kevin McCallister, I was devestated when the bags failed me and my groceries fell to the ground. Once upon a time, I was walking home from the supermarket with two carrier bags full of shopping. As part of Survival Week, I decided to document a single playthrough of the game. Although still in Early Access, it has oodles of content and has received several hefty updates since I first played it. Neo Scavenger is one of the best turn-based RPGs I’ve ever played.

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