Craymen Edge Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I've spent a few hours playing this now so thought I'd put something up here, because I think it'd appeal to some of you. Miasmata is a first-person adventure/survial game for Windows, available from Steam and GOG.com. When you start a new game, the intro text identifies you as a man called Robert Hughes. You are infected with a plague and are looking for a cure. At the start you wash up on the shore of a lush, green (and rocky) island and head off to search for your cure. As you head inland you find huts, a map and compass and a few notes to get you started. as you go along you find scraps of notes an journals from the scientists who were here trying to find a cure, and build up an idea that something has gone wrong. There's no HUD, and your map is pretty much empty apart from what you find on scraps of paper, and what you fill in yourself. Pretty early on you find a lab, and get instructions on analysing plants and using them to create medicines. This is pretty much essential to keep the fever at bay. The cartography and orienteering is really interesting and satisfying. You find where you currently are by getting out the map and clicking on a known landmark. This will draw a line on the map through the landmark in the direction you're looking. Do the same with another known landmark and where the lines intersect is where you are. You can also triangulate unknown/undiscovered landmarks from 2 different locations to triangulate them and add them to the map. The game is incredibly tense and atmospheric. The mapping is challenging but rewarding. Getting lost in the woods as the sun starts to set, without a visible landmark and just a branch as a makeshift torch is actually quite scary. I did just that the other night, when suddenly something growled. It was a pretty low, menacing growl. I panicked a little bit and span around to see where it came from, and that's when I fell off a cliff into the water and drowned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted March 3, 2013 Author Share Posted March 3, 2013 It does look very low budget at times (your guy's arms and hands are a bit dodgy looking at times), but I heard the game is the work of two guys, and apparently they made their own engine for it. With that in mind it's actually really impressive. Barring a few textures and repeated models here and there, the island looks pretty good.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Added it to my wish list should a decent sale price drop. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Well that didn't take long - currently up for 4 quid. Bought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Had a quick go of this before work and I'm unconvinced it's for me. I got to the first lab and then got a little stuck but I can see me getting lost and frustrated with the survival aspect. Is there a lot of running back to the lab to make stuff or are there more labs dotted around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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