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• gamedeal user

  Dec 21, 2020

  It is troubling to me that at time of writing the review rated as most helpful includes egregious hyperbole at best and flagrant lies at worst. I want to shed some light on the quality of the game by provide a summary of genuine praises, fair criticisms and unfair criticisms. I STRONGLY encourage anyone just starting out with this game to use the passenger difficulty. Passenger difficulty is lethal enough for just starting out, and you should try to get a good end on the easiest difficulty before even attempting a game on a harder difficulty. At time of writing, only 30% of players have actually gotten to a happy ending, and I know I only was able to because I stumbled upon an exploit. [b]+Genuine Praises+[/b] [u]+Stellar Atmosphere.[/u] The opening sequence is absolutely beautiful, and introduces you to each of the characters without a single one having to say a word. Insight into each character can come about from this opening sequence, and a lot of care has been put into each panel. The game then opens with gun shots happening in the background as the camera focuses upon a band of four people in various degrees of damage that just managed to escape certain death at the hands of the butchers on the tracks. The terrified survivors lament their fates as a sorrowful woman’s voice accompanied by a somber violin sets the tone. You will be hearing a lot of that singer, and she may be the hidden star of the game. [u]+Beautiful stylized artwork and music.[/u] [u]+Decent re-playability.[/u] [u]+Excellent Character Development.[/u] This game has some absolutely amazing character development that is served through multiple different systems that I will list in order of ascending depth. First, while the characters sit around the camp fire, they will say snippets of dialogue. Different characters have different snippets that reveal part of their background (for example, there is a serving girl that is looking for her brother that was lost in the crash. She calls out his name, lamenting that she cannot find him.). Second, each character has a preselected list of traits that may be revealed throughout the game. Playing the game and interacting with different items and actions unlocks the trait. In a beautiful design decision, traits can be either positive or negative, and impact the way mechanics work in intuitive ways (For example, someone with the cook trait has a chance of regaining an action point while cooking). Some traits are exceptionally bad, and the traits you are exposed to is tethered to your difficulty. Third, campfire dialogue. Every night phase you are given a series of topics to choose from to discuss. Talking through these options opens up interesting discussion points and strengthens the bond of your survivors. Usually you can get characters to open up to reveal more about themselves by reading them and having the people they are talking to respond politely to them. Not only do the conversations themselves add depth to characters, but they also allow for the next and even more detailed form of characterization in the game, side quests. Fourth, individual characters have different side quests that impact the camp, survivors, and the items you obtain. For example, there is a British adventurer that left behind his rifle on the train. If it comes up in conversation and the other people are receptive to it, a quest to find his gun appears. Similar quests exist for other characters, including finding lost siblings and other events. Fifth, unique character events. Each character has a collection of unique events that can be either randomly triggered in the morning, or triggered after dialogue during the night. Be warned, not all of these unique events are exactly positive and happy things, characterization can be both positive and negative. However, the characterization is nice, and really adds to the depth of each character. [b]-Fair Criticisms-[/b] [u]-Some events are poorly balanced.[/u] I’m looking at you, Target Practice Event. In the target practice event, your survivors get shot to pieces upon encountering a band of ruffians. In the event they do not even put up a fight. This seems tone deaf to the composition of the party, because soldier characters with rifles and pistols get gunned down without a fight. Events that do not fully take into account the situation at hand are part of the reason that the event avoiding exploit mentioned at the end of the review is worth knowing about. This event does not break the game, however, because it can only be triggered by deliberately moving into a renegade occupied tile. [u]-Lack of multiple save slots.[/u] This is probably my biggest gripe with the game. You can only save one game at a time. If you start a new game it overwrites the previous save. I don’t see why any game needs such a limitation. I personally really like to have old saves to go back to of past attempts, especially after I’ve already beaten the game on one save. Even just three or four save slots would nip this criticism right in the bud. [u]-The tutorial is sparse.[/u] The tutorial does an excellent job of introducing the fundamental mechanics, but there are a lot of nuanced and complex interaction that do not get explained. A lot of the learning in this game is on the fly via trial and error. On one level, that is part of the fun, but if you don’t enjoy learning a game that way this game is probably not for you. [b]--Unfair Criticisms—[/b] -[u]The game can be completed in 1-2 hours.[/u] This is a lie. Winning the game is a drawn out affair that takes ~25 days of in game time. The earliest you are winning this game is maybe 5 hours in, and that is after having failed your way to success in multiple previous play throughs. If you count having your entire party of survivors die off as “completing the game” then you can get through one playthrough in 1-2 hours. This criticism is about as valid as saying Super Mario Bros should not be played because you can “complete” the game in the first 20 seconds by jumping into a pit. -[u]The game doesn’t provide enough of the tundra to explore.[/u] This criticism is tone deaf to the setting. We are talking about a band of injured wrecked passengers of a train stranded in the middle of the tundra. The 40 tile range provided is the range they can safely navigate to from camp and hope to return to camp safely. -[u]There is no character development.[/u] I am astounded someone that played 20+ hours of the game can make this criticism. There is AMPLE character development. Each character starts out as a mystery, and through systems I talked about elsewhere is fleshed out. -[u]The plot does not provide enough background.[/u] The game developers chose to create their game in medias res, which is a valid way of telling a story. The game does not provide extensive background because that would detract from the main focal point of the plot, the gradual development of each of the individual characters thrust into a survival quest not of their choosing. -[u]There is an upgrade that is useless except for staving off one event.[/u] This is not only not a problem if it were true, but is not true. In this game you are hiding from the band of heavily armed renegades that attacked your train mostly unarmed passenger train. When a bandit moves within one tile of your camp, there is a risk of them finding the camp and the game ending. To counterbalance this you need to keep the fire low and eventually camouflage your campsite. Too much visibility opens up different renegade events. [b]++An Exploit To Make Your Game Easier++[/b] -Something to note is that while the game’s event system can be exceedingly brutal, there is an exploit that renders the event system trivial to cope with. This is because, [b]the game only autosaves at the beginning of the day phase[/b]. If the RNG screws you over, you can quit out of the game and start the entire day over.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 25, 2021

  If you loved "Don't starve" but found it to be too difficult and you adored "this war of mine" but were traumatized by the brutality, this is your game. It's a clicker that is juuuust depressing enough while still keeping you motivated enough to get these people out of here. The late night tet a tets are a little long winded. I wish the questions were shorter, especially having played this so many times. Otherwise a fun little ditty.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 23, 2020

  There really isn't much here, despite other reviews. There is very little feedback as to certain mechanics. For example, camp morale was completely empty due to a couple decisions I made at the beginning of a run, and at the end it was completely full, and I saw no difference mechanically. Same for trust, friendship, etc. They're just bars that have a chance to give you a benefit if they're full enough, but other than that seem to do little. If they do have an impact, it's so poorly communicated I wasn't able to tell the difference. There is almost no animation. Even moving characters to a task keeps them in the same position, just shifting them wherever you want. Just feels lazy that they don't even stand up. The UI is also not very intuitive. You end up having to click across the item bar to get to the items you want, and you'll have to do this multiple times to feed, drink, bandage, etc. Often times event dialogue will reference characters by name, and unless you've done a good job committing faces to names, you have no indication of who you're sending to do what. The dialogue is very poorly translated. It's a struggle to understand what the characters are trying to convey sometimes. Near the end of a playthrough one character mentions a child and another character says "COULD IT BE, X???" and up until this point I had no indication of who X was or their relation to any of the characters. Much of the character dialogue is like this, it has a strange tone to it that makes it sound...very much like written characters and less like actual people. There is also very little choice, which unfortunately is somewhat typical of games in this genre. A lot of the time your events are "Choose between A and B". One is good and the other is bad. That's it. I saw maybe 2 other choices that had more options. So, overall between everything I just found the game underwhelming, especially finishing a playthrough and a half in just short of 4 hours.
• gamedeal user

  May 3, 2020

  [i]Help WIll Come Tomorrow[/i] is a roguelite resource manager that has a lot of flaws, but somehow engufed me so much I'm currently storming the hardest difficulty—a thing I rarely do in games. As a group of survivors in ~1917 Russia you must navigate your way through multiple stats, negative statuses, and ideological differences, while unlocking events, character backstories and traits that help or harm your situation. The biggest flaws of this game are RNG and negative feedback loops. A single unfortunate event or wrong choice can end your run—or harm it so much it might as well have ended it. While the former is frustrating but typical for roguelites, the latter is exacerbated by the second flaw. See, the systems of this game are interlocked in such a way that losing only makes you lose more: the more negative statuses characters have, the less actions they get, and less actions mean less chances to fix your situation. When a negative condition becomes too strong, a character can downright faint and rob you of any chance to use them... Once again, each of these traits would be fine on its own, but together they create a system that makes it pointless to try and salvage a run if, say, two characters are gone or someone fumbles a crucial action early on. The dialogue is very cool thematically, but functional rather than well-written. The music and visuals are great. Ans yet, despite the flaws, [i]Help WIll Come Tomorrow[/i] drew me in. Perhaps the number of items and systems is [i]just right[/i] so as not to be overwhelming. Perhaps the theme is doing it for me. Perhaps the characters—vivid and well-executed stereotypes—are smart enough with their ideological talks and dark secrets that I'm curious to learn more. I think this game will benefit greatly from additional patching and balancing—patch 1.0.1 already added the much-needed Mushroom Soup and explained some mechanics better. Good luck to the developer in perfecting their game; I'll keep an eye on it (and try to make a Hard run). P.S. Don't be mistaken in thinking this is a clever narrative-driven game. While the bits of narrative it has are interwoven well into the gameplay and the characters are vivid, it's a resource manager first and foremost, not biting commentary on the Russian Revolution.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 22, 2020

  Great for fans of Dead in Bermuda and Dead in Vinland.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2021

  This game is a misunderstanding. It plays like a visual novel without the actual novel. Some bits of story are interesting and well written, but there's not enough of it to be meaningful. There's no strategy involved, you simply respond to whatever RNG throws at you. There aren't any real choices to make either - you simply choose the thing that lets you continue the game, because the other thing is very obviously bad. "Bad" choices are just that - there aren't any rewards for picking risky options. Overall, it's a little too boring and not enough substance for me to enjoy this game, even though I've tried.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 25, 2020

  When I first saw this game, I was super excited. I expected it to be largely similar to This War of Mine and Day R Survival. It looked like it had an incredible amount of potential, and the basis of the plot, a group of strangers thrown into a survival situation is the pinnacle of survival concepts in my opinion, provided you are able to have a complex story line and character development, with social and moral choices having a major impact on the characters. Help Will Come Tomorrow failed in this aspect, and honestly, you can completely play through this game in about 1-2 hours max. Overall, this game was thrown together hastily, and that is apparent in the lack of quality. This game was a disappointment, it had a great concept, and if Arclight put more time and effort into it, I feel they could have made something incredible, instead, we get a cheap game with a short plot and a base level story line. The first place they fall short is with the general story line. They give no intro to the story, besides a brief clip showing the characters on a train, and it getting blown up. It gives no beginning detail about the October Revolution, the social divisions, and the wars going on in the period. Most survival games, Such as This War of Mine, Distrust, Day R Survival, the entire Fallout Franchise, and many others, all include a way to give base information, either in the game itself, in the form of an intro movie, or a note with enough information to get a decent understanding, as you progress in the gameplay, through a series of notes or cutscenes meant to give a prologue. The only way to truly understand what is happening in the game is to do outside research on the October Revolution, and what happened. The night discussions give info about individual characters parts in the story, but they completely skip over the part of what the story is. The closest thing I could compare it to is handing someone a spine of a book with the title, and 20 random pages of the book, then expecting them to understand the story. Second, there is the complete lack of character development. The only development we can really see is the change in the Trust, Friendship, and Credit stats, which are pointless mechanics of the game, as the only thing they affect is Morale when you pair up survivors to do tasks together, which only is used for Morale Checks at night if your character has many negative effects. They could have done so much more with this. In This War of Mine, the effects that can happen have major effects. If you kill civilians, your survivors become depressed, and the survivor who did the killing is largely ostracized by the rest of the survivors, with messages shaming and questioning their decisions. This can also lead to infighting, and inability to work. Arclight games just fell short in this concept, and gave a little mechanic to make the game look more appealing and complex, when in reality, the entire character development is almost nonexistent. Also, there is the matter of Traits. No matter what you do with your survivors, there is a very small chance of discovering all of your traits for your characters. I wanted to test this, so I chose the Shatun mode, which has the opportunity to draw out gameplay, and I used this to search for traits. First, I made all characters do Fraternization with each other to find common traits. Then, I took turns having each character do each task, until each survivor had done cooking, building, exploring, hunting, medicine, crafting, etc, and each character had 2 or more traits still undiscovered. I am unsure if it is even possible to discover all traits for a survivor. Third, there is the aspect of detail, and depth to the game. Overall, the game is largely limited. The first place this is seen is in the map size. The entire map is made of about 40 grid spaces, many of which are death traps, where if you enter them, you die from one thing or another. That is miniscule. For a game about survival, there should be a lot more available area for exploration. There are in the middle of the Siberian Wilderness. This wilderness makes up 75% of Russia’s landmass, and encompasses over 13,000,000 Square kilometers. I’m 110% sure they can travel more than 5 grids in any direction without finding civilization and escaping, because if not, why is this a survival game in the first place. In This War of Mine, for exploration, you are able to choose from up to 40 locations to search i think, and each one has a building or multiple building you can search, where each building has dozens of searchable objects with materials. In Day Z, each house has items all over. There needs to be a bigger map, with more in depth searching. Also, character interactions are very limited, and have almost nothing to do with the individual character. When you go hunting, and find a deer, somehow, a military officer with a rifle is unable to shoot a deer, and instead hits a tree. How is a military trained soldier unable to shoot a massive animal? Also, with the Shatun Bear, it’s basically just unable to explore once it starts hunting, because if you encounter it, you have no options, you just die. Finally, we go to NPC enemy interactions, the Renegades. 90% of renegade encounters is just death. Your survivors walk onto their space, and almost every option results in your team dying. This needs to be reworked, because currently, the only way to win is to just sit around and try to avoid the renegades, even if you have multiple soldiers on your exploration team, you can’t do anything. I’d recommend a combat system similar to Forge of Empires, or Day R Survival, where you have a grid setup with obstacles and cover, and proceed in turn based combat, that way actually strategy and gameplay is required, compared to: walking, encounter renegades: Target Practice: your entire team is dead. Overall, I would not recommend Help Will Come Tomorrow, at least not until some major changes and updates are made by Arclight. This game is a very short and low depth experience, and has a lot to be improved upon.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 24, 2021

  When you're born Polish, life will funnel you into one of two paths: of hatred or of despair. Sensitive, artsy people tend to fall into the latter, and that's probably we have so many Polish depression simulators. Frostpunk, This War of Mine, and now this. In a nutshell - this game is Dead in Vinland infused with the essence of Frostpunk and This War of Mine. But it's also much more than that. The atmosphere, the music, the conversation topics, they're all very much in sync and varied enough to keep things interesting. Due to the way the game is designed you -must- have at least one revolutionary (aka communist) and at least one aristocratic (aka conservative old wealth) group member. The theme of the game is overcoming the tensions between the classes to survive, and eventually thrive. It's nothing mind blowing, but it's engaging from start to finish. As for the gameplay - if you're expecting a rehash of Dead in Vinland, this is not it. There is no combat, there are no skills; instead there are perks and action points. The expedition system is also interesting - weighing how much and what loot to bring versus the danger of getting lost in the taiga. The relationships between characters are also quite important, and managing people's happiness and friendship is vital. The survival aspect is pretty great. You have to manage hunger, thirst, fatigue and cold - classics - but also different injuries and illnesses, as well as indigestion or nausea (that's what you get for eating those weird mushrooms and bugs). That way the game pushes you to not rely on the barely edible moss, but actually hunt, fish and cook - and maybe even use herbs to season your dishes to increase morale. I wish more games had this kind of mechanic. (The Long Dark, are you listening? Let me rub greens into that venison!) It's an engaging ride from start to finish. After understanding the mechanics and learning the strengths and weaknesses of my survivors, I had no problem with survival whatsoever (playing on normal difficulty). I'll probably play some more with different endgame scenario and different survivor combination, but for now I'm very satisfied. Check it out! Great time.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 30, 2020

  As a fan of Dead in Vinland, I really really was expecting this game, even before it was released. But sadly, I can't recommend it in the actual state. There are some things that need to be improved (for example clarity in how many action points the things you can unlock cost) or other things, but the thing that really made me quit this game is how unfair it is with death. I like having my character die because of hunger, because an unlucky encounter maybe in which I had some kind of control, maybe one. But today I lost 2 characters on an expedition just because I ambushed a bandit without shooting him (he was sleeping). So the misleading option "kill the man while he is sleeping" turned suddenly in insta-death of two of my characters. Ok then I will keep going with the other 2. Then I go to an expedition with these 2 I have left, I equip the rifle and the bullet. I encounter another soldier, I think "I have a weapon now; I can use it this time if things get badly" And I get an event in which I pursuit this soldier and then insta-death again with not a single possibility of surviving. So, insta death on expeditions events. That's no fun it's rng ruining the experience completely
• gamedeal user

  Apr 23, 2020

  I wish I liked this game more than I did, the story and aesthetics were really nice, but the mechanics get really old after a while. First, very few item descriptions and every fucking condition has it's own means of curing it that you won't figure out without wasting resources and/or restarting the game. Party getting frostbite, and you try to have them rest in a double shelter with blankets? No, you loser! you need that one specific infirmary upgrade to make warm crompresses to cure the frostbite. You'll probably figure it out after your playthrough collapses. After 6 hours I still don't know how to get characters body temperature up. Rest, campfire and warm clothes sure as hell don't seem to do it. Also, it's one of those colony if idiots games, where in a harsh, hostile environment random characters will just wander alone into the wilderness on day 3 because they don't like the fellow survivor they were 'forced' to build a campfire with. This feels like a traditional Russian game made by software engineers instead of designers, just pile on mechanics, and make the game as hostile and convoluted as possible. The actual gameplay is in figuring the game itself out instead of playing the game.