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• gamedeal user

  Feb 7, 2022

  K, I've owned this game for quite awhile. The early version was buggy, but the gameplay was boring and so difficult to manage that it wasn't at all fun. Fast forward around a year, and they improved the gameplay significantly to the point where it's actually fun and you feel you have a chance to actually sustain a bunch of drifters, but the bugs aren't just irritating - they're GAME BREAKING. These bugs include the following that I've come across several times: * Boats can't be unloaded even when there's storage space, and the boats become inoperable * Water stills can't be unloaded, even when there's water storage available, so their efficiency plummets as a drifter has to drink the clean water supply in order for it to start producing more clean water again. * Rescuing drifters sometimes causes them to endlessly walk in place on the structure from which they were rescued, and remain in a "going home" state. They never move again, so they take up a drifter slot and are never useful * Drifters sometimes just do nothing even though there are jobs lined up for them, storage available, or electricity to be generated. They just stand there and never move. This game has so much promise, but the bugs are just killing it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 3, 2022

  This is a tough one for me because I really like the game itself, the super slow development just killed it for me. I've been with this game since it hit early access in mid 2019, playtesting new builds on a regular basis, giving feedback and reporting bugs. The devs are super nice and responsive but at some point I just stopped caring. It feels like this game is stuck in development hell and I doubt it will exit early access in 2022... hell, I'm not even sure about next year. Updates take forever and most of the time it's just hotfixes for bugs most players wouldn't even notice or even encounter at all. If there's actually some new thing like the overhaul of the research system, it gets a weirdly big announcement on steam including its [i]own artwork[/i]. In reality the new feature is (or changes) just a very small part of the game, adds little to no replay value and would've been better off if it took them longer and instead was part of a bigger content pack. Don't get me wrong, what they add is great! But it's just soo little. I work as a full time software dev and I get it - shit's hard and takes time. A lot. But this is clearly something else. Either the Pajama Llama Games team is chronically understaffed, they're running out of money or Flotsam is simply just a side project for them. Whatever it is, something is off here and I just don't have the patience for this snail pace anymore. I missed the last 3 "big" updates on purpose and decided to start it up again a few weeks ago. It just... I don't know man, it mostly still looks the same as it did 3 years ago. After 10 minutes I had already seen every new thing, after 20 more minutes I just quit because there wasn't much to do anymore. There's still no story, no real endgame, no real reason to keep playing once you stocked up on water and food. But what got me the most in this playthrough were the buggy boats. Two of them randomly got abandoned in the middle of a salvaging operation, right there on the open water. For no apparent reason. The drifter simply decided to abandon ship (and the cargo) and swim home. No way of getting them back, I couldn't even deconstruct one of the mooring points anymore. This is nothing new and I've put a ticket for this into their stupid Mantis bugtracker back in 2019 already - apparently it's still not fixed. H o l y s h i t. If you can get Flotsam on a really good sale I'd still say get it, it's great for a playthrough or two. But the full price is simply not justified since there's still so little to do in the game.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 20, 2022

  Honestly, I am torn and once again wish Steam would allow a different form of rating than up or down. 6/10 I have obviously played this game a lot: I have found it both unique and relaxing, a way to distract a mind that never wants to shut up, but admittedly Flotsam (a game evidently stuck in purgatory) is the reason I almost never buy games that are in EA anymore. Flotsam has a rather particular, artistic beauty to it, and its gameplay--while at times buggy--is straightforward with little issue; however, beyond just playing for the sake of relaxing, there is no endgame to aim for. While you do go around collecting resources, exploring the map, and growing your floating community, there is not much else to do, and once you get your community to a certain safe level, the game is effectively finished even if you desire to keep playing: there is nothing else to do except collect resources when (and if) needed. This game has been released for a while and I do not understand what is taking so long to complete it or fully release it. While appreciating that I do not know quite what goes into creating a game, I feel that after several years this game is either just a side-project for the devs, or is decidedly without funding. The devs are great; nevertheless, the updates they keep pushing out take forever, and are rather shallow and not at all placating at the end of the day. Many of the updates, even, have changed things that did not need to be changed, that worked perfectly fine to begin with, and make it all feel as if we are going backwards instead of progressing to an end. Instead of wasting time fiddling with unneeded fixes, I wish they would channel all that time into releasing an update that actually contributed more to the overall game, such as a campaign, more buildings, more resources, and even decorations to beautify your floating community. Flotsam is an enjoyable, relaxing game, to be sure, and I do recommend it, even if I am anymore just annoyed by its snail pace of update releases, but I would advise waiting for a sale.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2022

  Buy it only if you wish to support the development. Do not buy it if you're expecting a game close to completion. Some games release in EA with 80% "close-to-completion" state, and some games release in EA with 20%. Considering the content currently available and that it has been in EA for almost 3 years, Flotsam is definitely in the category of games releasing in a very, very early state. I'm fine with that, some dev need funding while developping their game, but please don't expect a review based on what the game could be in X years. It does have potential however. As of version 0.6.3, I can't recommend it. After 4-5h your colony is completely self-sufficient and there's nothing left to do but gathering resources for no purpose. Of course you can rack up a higher playtime just by roaming around but there won't be any progression involved as you'll have researched and built everything and will have too much of every resources. I'll review it again fairly when it will leave EA.
• rino142857

  Nov 24, 2022

  I love settlement builders and this concept was incredible. The cartoonish looks are great, the concept is great, I played some 10 or 12 games but it's always until you get sick of it, there's still no objective. So far the whole thing is nice, the UI is nice, you can automate a bunch of processes, upgrade stuff and so on, I love it, but it lacks some purpose, I dunno, gathering a certain amount of resources, finding a portal, the lost island, building a submarine, whatever... something! The worst part of this game is, obviously, the fact that they started making this BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, meanwhile apparently they all got isolated in a place without computers because in November 2022 we're still at version 0.7, I dunno wtf they're doing, but it's not the game. I paid 20€ for the game 2 years ago, hoping that SOON I'd get the full version, haha, joke's on me. As such, I cannot recommend this game because by the time they finish it, your kids will be in school and you won't have time for it.
• BigGoumba

  Apr 2, 2023

  game overall is interesting but ive had the game for about 3 or 4 years now and almost no progress has been made in production of this game, game feels empty and no progress except building a boat and a skill tree that now limited by exp point earned daily, do not get this game it is unfinished after almost more then 4 years of already having a base game and adding nothing to it,just get a cracked copie and play that
• 💖⎛⎝Silver Knight⎠⎞

  Jul 31, 2023

  It's fun but definitely some missed opportunities. There's a lack of interaction between your people and the world and each other, a lack of community. The ocean is vast with all kinds of fish but you seem to only catch one type, you see a whale every now and then but cannot spear it or interact with it. Visiting islands becomes tedious after awhile, you expect the same old stuff each time, the economy should have been fleshed out much more instead of "objects" that get turned into plastic and wood. Biggest issue with this game is no environmental factors, no storms, no rain, no drought, cannot camp on an island, no hostile humans, no different biomes such as snow, desert, ice, tropical etc completely missed opportunity . TLDR: Game is fun but too simplistic, you will only get a few hours out of this before it's shallowness appears.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 27, 2019

  quite fun, but after 3 hours i finally managed to get myself into a stable situation and now i have nothing left to do. you're basically constantly fighting against the ressources by not having enough food and water, and the whole game is just tryign to fight against that. there is not much content to really justify 20 bucks, but the game is truly gorgeous and it is clear that a lot of work went into it. unless you got the 20 bucks to spare, i'd suggest waiting a year or so for updates.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2019

  Pretty good start. Love the art style and concept. Early access so it needs a lot more content, music, bug fixes and optimisations etc etc etc. Keep going dev
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2019

  [b]Update: 1/1/2020[/b] The developers do have a [url=http://www.pajamallama.be/roadmap/]roadmap[/url] which begins with QoL improvements followed by some additional game play enhancements. I would still recommend to wait and see, I plan to pick up this title again once they release the "Goals" update which I hope will greatly improve the game play loop. ( Thanks to @elStrages for commenting with the roadmap ) [h1]Rating: Keep it on your Wishlist[/h1] The atmosphere is well executed, a pleasantly cheery and bright world yet still thoroughly apocalyptic. Almost makes climate change seem like an enjoyable, campy experience! But, this game isn't ready to be in EA, much less sold for $24.99. There is maybe 3 hours of content here, if you're a completionist. It took me an hour to research what I needed and reach the end of the map. Another 2 hours to visit every possible stop on the map which are actually quite repetitive, everything there is to see can be done in the first round. The tech-tree is extremely short with only around a dozen new buildings and no upgrades. It also isn’t much of a tree, you can unlock anything in any order but there are definitely some dependencies to watch out for. This is my biggest concern - the developers really should share their plans for the tech tree in a road map. Flotsam introduces an FTL style approach to moving your city around the map, which does in some ways make up for the shortcomings of the tech tree. But, there isn’t a lot of variety here yet and the game play still gets pretty stale once the tech tree is fully researched - not unlike most other city management games. I still consider this game play element to offer a ton of potential towards replayability. I look forward to seeing what the developers ultimately end up doing with it. Until the Developers announce a road map, or a big content update comes out, this is a title you should probably leave on your WishList for now.