Pleistocene
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Pleistocene is a survival game set during The Pleistocene, approximately 2 million years ago. Your name is Amrok, atleast that's what you can make out from the gruntings everyone makes...
The environment is your main enemy, requiring you to manage your energy, maintaining enough to spend searching for food and avoiding the megafauna that roams the lands.
Fight or flight are your "weapons", weighing up whether it's worth expending valuable energy to battle an enemy that might just run away or running from an enemy that might catch you are the main focus of the game.
Complete with sleeping cave and warming nighttime fire, Pleistocene takes a subtle, 2013, sat in a warm house with the kettle on view of what it was like to live two million years ago.
The environment is your main enemy, requiring you to manage your energy, maintaining enough to spend searching for food and avoiding the megafauna that roams the lands.
Fight or flight are your "weapons", weighing up whether it's worth expending valuable energy to battle an enemy that might just run away or running from an enemy that might catch you are the main focus of the game.
Complete with sleeping cave and warming nighttime fire, Pleistocene takes a subtle, 2013, sat in a warm house with the kettle on view of what it was like to live two million years ago.