Flotsam
Manage your drifters as they try to survive in a harsh ocean world, where everything is trying to eat you or sink your town to the depths of the sea! You’ll need fresh water, seafood, and scrap to make sure your drifters can make the best of this wet situation. Luckily the flooded environment offers all kinds of relics from the old world to recycle. Your drifters can transform garbage, driftwood, and flotsam into boats and buildings. These allow them to collect rainwater, hunt for various creatures, and reel up scrap from the ocean floor. Steer your town as you explore a sprawling, dynamic environment with tall ruins, underwater cities, and coral reefs full of sea life and garbage! Raise your sails to choose which obstacles to avoid and which to dismantle.
Steam User 18
This game has come along way. After 4 years in EA, at this point (August 30th 2023) it still gets regular great updates. It's clear they want to make this the best game they can and little by little they're certainly getting there.
As someone who loves citybuilders I can definitely recommend this one.
Steam User 11
Fun game. No story or ending yet. Good for a few hours of playtime. By then you will have researched and built everything and there is nothing more to do.
Game is in early access, so makes sense.
Steam User 5
Originally I stated the weight limits ruinred the game. Developer was quick to respond and let me know a function of the game to get around that.
So this is a great start to a fun game. But low on content.
Steam User 8
I've been playing Flotsam a couple months now. Initially I wrote a scathing review because I hadn't played enough and didn't know all the tricks yet. Food & Water are hardly scarce, there are abandoned stores and water towers all over the map. Plus you can cook seaweed, and on the research station you can get to the Water Distiller in about 3-4 days. The rest is resource management, watching your storage, and waiting until the game devs fix fishing. It is easy to fish, but there are 4 types of fish I have encountered, and each one makes only one part of a total meal. And for most fish meals you need 2-3 parts to make one meal. So you'll need fishing boats, a fish unbottler, a fish washer, a fish grill, and the huge food truck (which sucks like 6,000 eels of power during it's operation!!!). And so you spend all your time collecting fish, prepping them, and waiting for all the parts to be ready for 10-15 meals? And if you have 15 drifters on the raft, that's 1 day of food. I stick to seaweed, easy to harvest, farm and cook. There is only seaweed, fish meals & canned food; no other food options. No you can't eat seagulls or people... yet! When drifters die, they will lay and rot and drive morale down. There is no way to get rid of bodies. I've dried destroying walkways to push them in the water, but the body just jumps to the next available surface. With 2 or more research stations, it's really easy to max out research. So I hope they add more options in the future. My most populated raft at it's peak was 18 drifters & 5 seagulls. But my drifters started starving after getting 10, so now I try to keep it to 9.
Steam User 4
I have been along for the journey of this game right from the start! It is a quirky, fun and challenging game that is full of fun animations.
A great 'survival' game which is different from the rest.
It is just so darn cute!
Steam User 5
So far so good, though this is very much an Alpha. Looking forward toward some much needed balancing. It's too easy to get behind on food and water, especially when first starting, and finding seaweed or the seedlings is too cumbersome. Might need to increase the amount of seaweed a seed provides. Sticking with it for the time being to see where it go's.
Steam User 4
Game has a ton of potential. Dev needs to hire someone to build out the tech tree and the content. Finished in 15 hours with trying to take my time.