Today’s game is Stranded Deep. I’ve kind of given up on the Horror Month thing by this point. I’m not sure why but all my interest in RE 2 suddenly vanished. Still though, Stranded Deep can be scary (at times), especially to the right audience. I was playing with my friend and we built this little house to live in. It took a good hour of playtime but it was worth it.
It’s pretty spacious inside too. we were going to get a bed in here before getting off but we cut down all the trees on the island to make the house. We’ll give them a bit to grow so we don’t hurt the local ecosystem more.
I had to make a few supply runs to other islands. We seem to regularly run out of Lashings. They’re somehow the most valuable thing here, followed only by rocks. My supply run got us enough for 5, which is a start but not much.
We got a nice boat selection near spawn to work with at least, so we got some Lashings from there too. We also got some hammers and lights from it so we’re not working in darkness.
My friend had to go AFK at the end, to go take care of something. He ended up just crouching here and staring into the sun. It was a peaceful sight, though i fear his retinas may be burned in.
Dude when this was included in PS Plus I got fucking consumed by this game! It’s beautiful and brutal and relaxing all at the same time. I would play a Hawaiian playlist on the Spotify app while playing and it was supremely chill… until I died from shark or diarrhea. Like I say, an interesting cocktail of stress and relaxation. Happy to see it getting some love.
It’s like things can start suddenly going catastrophically wrong so quickly despite being calm. It almost ironically mimics the ocean. It’s getting a sequel which is exciting.
Oh snap, I didn’t know that! Excited!!
It’s in my backlog, but I couldn’t get into Subnautica (I enjoyed it while playing, but didn’t have any urge to play it again), so the genre is probably not for me. I can imagine it can be fun with right people though.
I’m in the sort of opposite boat. Subnautica is in my backlog. I heard the second one was going to have multiplayer (which was a big thing I was wanting in the first one), so I was just going to wait for that since I’m not big on the story. After all the stuff I’ve heard though I’m hesitant
If you don’t mind playing alone, do try Subnautica, everyone claims it’s best of the genre, at least it was when it was released.
Do you have to swim for stuff? It looks like it. That’s the kind of scary I can’t handle ;-;
Yeah, there’s a bit of swimming. I’ve never had to leave the shallows really for loot, but you still have to dive for them. And if your boat gets knocked over while heading over to another island, you’ll have to flip it and clamber back on.
My friend I play with is the same way. He’s terrified of the deep ocean so i usually handle the water based stuff (I’m in the opposite boat, I love the ocean)
