I’ve decided to challenge myself to write about my daily gaming experience (kinda, at least 3 times a week minimum) mainly because I play way more games than I actually review.
Today was a slow day because I slept around 4 hours total and those four hours weren’t particularly enjoyable. After finishing the real-life stuff I had in the morning, I thought the best way to start the rest of the day is to play more relaxing games.
I’ve started with Nomad Drive, an indie survival co-op game that’s releasing in early access on October 20th. There’s a free demo available on Steam.
My initial line of thinking was that I play demos today because they’re usually around 30 minutes long and that makes it easier to stop if I get too exhausted. I’VE PLAYED NOMAD DRIVE FOR 2 HOURS.
The game starts with me spawning in a house that’s completely empty besides a shell of a van and parts that were scattered. It took me way more time than it should to figure out that I was supposed to fix the van and set out to explore. It was an excruciating process.
So the premise of it runs on survival. You need to eat food when you get hungry, drink water when you are thirsty, take medicine if injured and maintain the van by fixing the engine, adding coolant, fuel and replacing tires. All of the necessary things can be found along the road in abandoned places, just not everything at once.
You know how looting works, I don’t need to explain it.
Because of my lack of friends, I was playing it alone, so collecting loot was a slow process, especially for me who tried to put everything in a small van.
Now, with this being a demo of an early access game, I feel like I’ve done everything there is in those 2 hours but I can see the vision. If the game continues to expand in early access by adding new biomes, some sort of factor that decreases a chance of survival, and maybe different van options, I can already see it being one of the staple survival games.
As for the second game that I played today, it was Find the Needle. You guessed it, you have to find a needle in the stack of hay. Let me say this, I don’t get how something so simple can be so brilliant.
At the beginning of the game, you have to pick each hay piece one by one and sell it. You can upgrade for better tools which can pick more and naturally earn more money. Not long after, the simple game about picking hay turns into a full blown factory.
I’ve made a setup where I have robot hands picking hay for me and putting it on a production line that automatically scans for needles and sells the hay. It’s like Satisfactory but only for hay. Another game where I expected 30 minutes of gameplay that I’ve ended up playing way more. I have a feeling that the dev team made a mistake and have put a full game inside this demo.
Conclusion
That’s all the time I could dedicate to games today which was way more than I expected. What I expected to be a colossal failure of a day, turned out to be pretty great. I’ve worked, had a fulfilling day with my family and I’ve played 2 pretty decent games. All in all, I call it a success.
Make sure to check out Nomad Drive, give some love to the developer of it, Indie Devil. Also let’s not forget to check out Find the Needle and give some love too to the developer of it, FindTheNeedleDev.
If you have some suggestions about what games I should play next, join my discord here and we can chat there.
