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The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 17thA perfectly normal workplace lies behind today’s door
A perfectly normal workplace lies behind today’s door
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Uh, it’s probably not a problem - probably - but I’m seeing a small discrepancy in today’s advent calendar and… no, never mind… it’s well within acceptable bounds. Go ahead, open the door.
It’s co-op comedy and scientific survival gameAbiotic Factor!
Brendy:I haven’t played half as much Abiotic Factor as I have wished. Partly because it’s a survival game, that inherently time-sinky genre that wants you to worry about the poo in your gut even while you decorate your makeshift shelter. But also because of schedules. This game, you see, is best enjoyed with friends.
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It’s funny and scrappy and it gives the survival genre a delightful new setting - not the expansive jungles and deserts of the outside world with all those familiar elements to battle, but the hideously tiled innards of a late 1990s shooter. There are tram systems and offices to sprint through, fearful of mutants and security mechs. And huge internal structures that make you wonder what the hell these scientists were up to. Although there are interdimensional “portal worlds” where the climate can suddenly whip up freezing snow. You might find some weird bees to keep, or fish to reel in, or creepy cultists to run away from.
I haven’t seen even half of what the game has to offer and I’m already convinced it’s one of the most fun survival games I’ve played sinceSubnautica. Now, if I can just find some time to poo with my friends…
Headback to the advent calendarto open another door!
