![]() ![]() ![]() Each mistake that I made became the start of my next success. These expeditions (coincidentally where you access most of the plot) are made up of a party of survivors that must rove to distant areas on the quest for new technology.įor example, do you risk the well-being of your team to look around a uncharted territory, even with the threat of environmental hazards and other rival groups lurking around? This technology you search for can be vital to complete a quest before time runs out, for example. Your minions can go off to harvest resources, construct buildings and explore uncharted territory to find new technology, going on expeditions. Sending them off to do your bidding is the only way to continue to grow the settlement. People are your power in this game, and making them want to stay in your new post apocalyptic beach house, (let alone keeping them alive) is paramount to your success. If you’re unable to provide them with Marlow’s hierarchy of needs (safe housing, clean water, food) then you’ll make them none too happy. You start constructing a new settlement to ensure your people have shelter, work and are fed. The weedy bushes and warped metal will have to do – in the beginning. But as a wise man once said, you deal with the hand that’s been given to you. You start out having to build a settlement that is the sum of sand dirt, scrap metal, some measly berry bushes and contaminated water wells. Seeing how many plates you can keep from crashing – how well you deal with Homeseek’s resource management system – is the core of this unforgiving game. ![]() You have to juggle resource management (like spinning plates in the air), the building of your new home, as well as *gasp* difficult choices. Your task is to guide a group of survivors to build a new community in a hostile environment that is in no way your friend. The new future of earth is brutal, did I have the guts to survive it? Homeseek Review – Gameplay I didn’t have a lot of experience with resource management games, (having only hazy memories of Sim City floating around my cranium) but Homeseek was a good introduction to the genre. Think of Dune and you’ll get a similar atmosphere. What has emerged in this post-apocalyptic hellscape is the struggle over the nectar of life – Water. ![]()
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