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“Lovecraftian Stone Age” town builder The Tribe Must Survive hits early access in FebruaryWhat we do in and out of the shadows
What we do in and out of the shadows
Image credit:Starbreeze Entertainment
Image credit:Starbreeze Entertainment
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The Tribe Must Survive - Gameplay Trailer
The personality traits also feed into positive or negative interactions with other characters, as they mingle and move about camp. This eventually results in the appearance of factions, who may come to blows. In the event of such an “Inner Conflict”, it’s up to you to decide the victor. The losing faction may be totally eradicated.
Even as you’re trying to hold the tribe together, you’re also splitting them apart in order to explore the map. The Tribe Must Survivetakes a lot of inspiration from the 4X genre, except that there isn’t a combat or military component and as such, no fourth “extermination” pillar.
You can send tribespeople on journeys into the ominously named Outer World, where they’ll face challenges presented as pop-up story choices, reminiscent ofStellaris. Once a region is sufficiently explored, you can found an Outpost there and create trade routes - both for basic resources once local reserves grow scarce, and for rarer goods such as Copper and Relics, which are needed for later village upgrades.
The outpost system is also a way of managing factional strife, in that you can pack one group off to the boondocks to reduce the tension. The R&D component, meanwhile, has you deciding whether to bet on new technologies or commit your tribe to mysticism, while picking from a familiar spread of governing ideologies - freedom at all costs vs tyranny in the name of survival, that kind of thing.
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