Flotsam

I came across Flotsam very early in its prolonged early access development. While it took a very long time for the game to come out, I did get to experience numerous gameplay iterations and generally found enjoyment in all of them. I was mainly attracted to the game based on its art and aesthetic style and cozy “waterworld survival” concept that made it feel like a casual version of Rimworld. I was glad to see the specialist quests and end-game content finally added but wish it had come sooner, but I understand that this was made by a small studio.
Pros:
Very colorful, cartoonish visual aesthetic never gets tiresome.
Gameplay is very simple and easy to pick up and understand.
Things I'd like to see improved:
In all of the game's versions, there has been no ability to manually assign drifters to tasks. Instead you can set their task preferences but you're generally stuck waiting to see who will show up for a task once it's assigned.
Resource management and crafting can get extremely burdensome as the game progresses, with the end-game loops feeling extremely repetitive and time-intensive.
Audio is very limited. It would be nice to have some kind of soundtrack rather than just the occasional twangy banjo chords and strums.

As a player that absolutely eats up simulation games, this one stands out as pretty dang exceptional to me. The art is fabulous. The music is chill and relaxing. The polish and smoothness are way up there. The play loop is enthralling (but more automation is needed here and there). I racked up 36 hours in the last 2 weeks without even realizing it. Thoroughly jazzed to see all the updates in 1.0. Great work here, devs!

Great Fun Survival Builder Game ♥
I have been playing this game since it first release during early access back 2019. Couldn't be more happy to see it finally made it to 1.0 full releases. :D
Flotsam is quite unique survival colony builder where you start with survivors after the great flood on a boat, sailing, collect resources and growing your colony with no combat, fill with a wonderful art style and a quirky cutie survivors (also you can be friend with seagull).
Rather than feeling like everything is falling apart and that hope is lost (like most game that set after some catastrophe event), Flotsam however, make you feel hopeful as you growing your colony, which I find it a rather wonderful idea, and that, in my opinion, make Flotsam quite unique on it own.
Recommend to anyone looking for a cute tiny colony/builder game, it is addictive, can be challenge if not careful, yet enjoyable. I love everything in this game, (especially those seagull). A Waterworld experience minus crazy stunts, or hostile world with expensive floating island and Kevin Costner :P, Flotsam is highly enjoyable. ♥

Flotsam
A city builder, Exploration and Management Game

I´ve got this game on my Radar for quite some time. Like many others out there, I burned my fingers sadly way to often on Early Access games, that sold Promise and Potential but never Delivered.

So I bought this game discounted after its 1.0 release. Carefull to not exceed the 2hr mark for a Potential refund, but this game was Fun actually. The Gameplay loop is solid.

You Start out with a little Boat and a few people, start collecting Garbage floating on the Ocean and start Adding to your Boat. Progress is quite fast and you early on see how you shape your Floating City. The Artstyle is a bit "too Happy" for my Taste. Looked like something nintendo would come up with. For something, thats set in a Post Apocalyptic setting this game is pretty Nice and Wholesome. Not totaly my type of Artstyle but it still worked fine for me.

Game never really gets hard or complicated tho. Obviously, like most other games of this Genre, in the lategame you get some refining Production chains but it stays easy untill the end. No inflated hyper complicated Production chains that you need to check with a calculator. Later on, when you unlock the Ability to grow Crops and clean Water without using Fuel, you´ll basicly beat it. You could go on forever and define your Settlement, Start making things Pretty and all That.

I am not that kind of Player. Luckily, there is a Questline that makes you able, to Finish the Game.
I´ve never encountered a Single bug, no crashes and the Performance was smooth. Never went below 60fps. This feels like a Polished and Finished game that I quite enjoyed for my 20 Hours of Playtime.

If you´re a completionist, you can come back for some Achievements if you´re into that, besides that there isnt much Replay Value to be honest. If you Finish the game once, you´ve basicly seen all the game has to offer. Enjoyable nonetheless.

BUT

Lategame gets somewhat Tedious, when you´re above 25 Population, it starts to become a Hassle. Your Storages are allways full, something still is allways missing/low and you´re constantly busy micromanaging some Production Chain.

8/10

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very cozy city building/management game where your city/town is connected to a boat you steer throughout a sunken world, collecting floating resources and scavenging them from buildings too, i absolutely love the progression in the game <3 very pretty artstyle, and funny humour too... very addictive game

This is one of the most well thought out games I have ever played. You can feel the amount of effort put into this game. I don't review games often but this game is just so well done. Everything is extremely balanced. Not sure why the other reviews are negative. Haven't experienced any game breaking or glitches, everything performs fine for me. I just sunk 3 straight hours into it right after purchasing, and I'm glad I did. Addicting gameplay mixed with a super unique art style, I could see myself playing this game for a while to come. Worth the money, give it a shot.

Very cute and fun little colony builder.
Challenge is appropriate for people like me who love colony builders but suck at the complex late game stages of other titles. I managed to finish it without ever really getting into trouble, even though I usually throw in the towel halfway through most other colony sims, so don't expect hyper complex resource fine tuning or anything.
+ Cute graphics
+ Decently long campaign (took me just over 20h)
+ Pretty cozy
~ Quite easy