doesnt freaking work
flash player is retired and the game just crashes every time you open it because oh i don't know, it uses flash player and adobe actively nukes the app from space???
there's an android version that i've been playing since flash went titsup but i would rather be playing on my PC?
total load of bs, why is it still broken? you could literally put an android emulator in a beta release and it would be better than a game everyone paid for just eternally not working ever again, forever and ever, RIP sweetprince

It's a cool game. But it's sort of ruined by the way that you can spend hours on a character just to lose to a single dice roll. There's a lot of great writing and worldbuilding. It's interesting as hell.

... but I've never seen most of it cause I'll play for a day, then die in my sleep, or to someone who just rolls better than I do, and then I have to restart. Just wastes hours. So I won't play for another half a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ year cause ♥♥♥♥ doing all the initial ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ again I just spent hours on it. And repeat the process.

Honestly, the permadeath aspect stops being charming after you get the early game down. It's just a time waster after that. It literally ruins the game. I've got better things to do with my time. Maybe I'll learn better and just stop trying one of these days.

I can really only recommend this to people with more spare time than they know what to do with.

Its a great game but the developer has basically abandoned support to work on ostranauts. its a flash based game that has started bugging out since flash was sunset. The built-in save system no longer works (more like it won't load a saved game to be pedantic) and the longer you leave a game instance open the more likely it is to have a memory leak or start bugging out. Had a game open for about 4 days before I encountered a game breaking bug where items no longer appeared on the ground and displayed a clean grid instead.

I'd recommend the working game to anyone but in its current condition I'll tell you to save your money.

You only bought this because of the Sseth review and found out that he made the game sound better than it actually was.

Choose stats. Start game.
Search house, find nothing.
Search house, find nothing.
Search house, find nothing.
Don't find a lighter or crowbar, so your chances of finding anything stay low.
Search house, find nothing.
Search house, find nothing.
Encounter a dog.
Battle mechanic is terrible.
Die.
Start again.
Repeat.
Spam 'new game' 8 times just to get a half-decent start.
Search house, finally find some items.
Encounter a dog.
Battle mechanic is terrible.
Die.
Close the game and feel ripped off.

The rate that this game can go from smooth sailing to your character is dead with little to no warning is my main issue with this. You easily end up in situations where there is no positive outcome. You definitely can get better at the game, but for the time invested, this is just a frustrating rogue-like. 20 hours in, decked out well, I still can't survive a 1:1 fight and have little chance of escaping one.

There are positives in this game. The crafting system is well thought out. The health system is wild. There's a LOT of story here, but the random encounter instadeaths just ruin things.

Pretty sure we solved crafting mechanics back in the Ultima days. If your crafting system is broken in 2024 I don't know what to tell you.

The short version: NEO scavenger is a series of decent concepts, executed poorly.

The slightly longer version: NS is an otherwise functional survival game held back by a handful of very strong flaws. These include, but are not limited to;
*Unclear instant death scenarios in a permadeath game, where the possibility of dying isn't even made readily clear.
*Unclear plot events that can be failed, denying access to or otherwise making getting plot information very difficult.
*A largely empty world. Approximately a thousand tiles, with approximately a dozen locations, most of which are actually sub-locations of a greater area. There's about 6 distinct "areas". At most, you could say the world is roughly 1.2% populated.
*A fairly weak story, that doesn't really tie up any loose ends. You had your memory wiped and got frozen because you were a successful cryptid wiki moderator, and the government wanted it covered up, something something over-reach with AI automation. "The spooky is real and they're watching you, and don't want you to know!" is a pretty complete summation, aside from a side plot about a sort of Agent Orange that causes Turbo AIDS. None of this is really foreshadowed or explained fully.

With it's slow pacing, which would otherwise be enjoyable, these random setbacks and weak payoffs just make the experience feel like wasted time. The game is simply too little content, stretched thin.

Not the kind of game I usually play but it kept my interest for some time. Only played through twice but never survived to one of the many narrative endings. It's a text/turn/hex based, RPG survival game with crafting and looting in a post-apocalypse setting. Lots of random chance and encounters and you have to manage your moves and timing to avoid weather, and other health conditions.

Might play this again but both times I seemed to lose based on the game just deciding it was done with me playing and rolled me a bunch of ones to end the play through in a simple encounter I've handily beaten 20 times before.

It's worth a play especially if you get it on sale.

Edit:

Changed to would not recommend. Had another few runs and every last one of them ended the same: insta-killed in a simple encounter. It's boring starting a new game every 30 minutes to and hour, not even getting 2 days in. Half of the POI giving another wound despite high safety. Eye rolling. It has mods apparently so maybe that'll make it worth playing but I'm gonna go play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC instead of dying instantly to a wounded dog the second I get something decent.

This game is not for me. My main problem with the game is that it has near endless choice, but all of them are boring. It goes like this- you wake up, go explore, eat berries and fight (avoid) enemies. Sounds good but it's more of a chore than a game. You can't carrry anything unless you have a backpack, and even when you do have, you can't carry a lot. Most items are meaningless anyway, so you don't get excited when you find something. There is a crafting mechanic, which I only use to create a pointy stick(ultimate weapon) and a campfire. Combat is boring, it has many choices, and some are objectively better than others, and they all end with you missing, or running away. After some time surviving you get a goal to go towards in the map, and I thought I would start to play the real game after that, but it was still the same tedious game.

If you love hyper realistic survival games, with a lot of freedom, no handholding, and a lot of mechanics to possibly exploit, this is the game for you.
If you are a casual gamer who likes his games a little more game-y and less like an excel document, do not buy this.