Tips, objectives, and game length.

[Jnx]

Hey everyone. I just completed the game 5 minutes ago, but it was iOS, so I can't type in a review on steam. However, my biggest curiosity about the game was how long it would take. Normally I just look at the howlongtobeat.com website, but there wasn't enough info there for this small game, so I figured I'd make a post here.

Objectives:

The game is not really super informative on what to do. The story is bare bones as well, but let me give you the basics on what to do, in case you're confused.

Your objective is to disable all the towers on the island - well actually on 3 islands plus a central island, but we'll get to that.

General Guide:

Choosing a home base. When you're just starting out, you'll be without equipment, but the beach you start on is a what I'd call newbie friendly. There are no monsters, except if you're really unlucky and get a slow moving croc that spotted you while close to the water, or at night a zombie spawns (those are super rare on the starter beach so don't worry).

For this reason, I chose the starter beach as my home base for the starter island (or bottom island, as you'll find out soon enough). Scour the beach for resources. You'll need food, flint, and twigs, which all spawn endlessly on the beach. Go look at the houses and structure for chests and loot. Maybe you'll get lucky and get a bow and arrows. If not, look into crafting it. You'll be up against wolves soon, who aren't terribly impressed with your feeble melee weapons at this stage.

Craft tools, and make bunny traps which gets you meat and sheep. Use the sheep wool to get armor. Harvest resources. Don't worry too much about stone. About 50 will last you many hours. Get a furnace. Smelt ore. Craft arrow heads. Make a shovel. Go hunt for Wolves nearby and get their leather and teeth. Make a melee weapon with the teeth, and upgrade your backpack.

A note on armor: Upgrade from wool to military armor as soon as possible. This drops from zombies, and are found in chests. Only use leather if you don't have military, but never craft it. You need all the leather to upgrade the backpack. Finally starting on island 2 you want to craft strong armor, and use that exclusively.

Time to go explore the island. Remember you can always teleport back to a discovered transit location at any time as long as there are no enemies around.

Look for X spots on the map. Dig up treasure and hope you get lucky. Maybe you'll get a crossbow. If and when you do, ditch the bow. The crossbow is slower but deals more damage, making it worth it. You'll be rocking a crossbow for the first two islands, so get used to it.

Shoot crocodiles and bears, tigers, and wolves alike, and harvest their loot. Work on expanding your backpack as much as you can. Convert crocodile and bear skins to leather if you need to. Before you leave the first island you'll want a fully upgraded backpack.

Before long you'll get an old revolver, which shoots bullets. It's worthless. Hold out for the rifle. You'll be rocking that a bit into island 2. Only shoot fast moving enemies with it to conserve ammo.

Once you're comfortable, go unlock some transit locations (huts on the map), and then start visiting the towers. At each tower you'll find a note with a code, which annoyingly enough isn't for the tower you visited, but it's for another random tower on the island, do you'll be visiting the tower locations twice. My advice is to clear as little as possible, and get the code, then leg it out of there, and teleport to safety. Then find the tower it belongs to on the map and go there.

Don't venture out at night. There are increased monster spawns, anomalies (super dangerous), and you can't see anything.

Once you've cleared the island, go to the bottom, and venture across the bridge with a lot of wood (around 200) and let's say 30 or so stone, and bring your most needed supplies.

Don't get too attached to all you've amassed on the island, as there's a bug that forgets what are in boxes on map change, so odds are you'll lose a lot of it while transferring to a new map. However, if you're feeling lucky, you can make a couple of trips for the most needed stuff.

Don't make a home on the new center island unless you're playing on the hardest mode. If so, make chests and store all your things there except armor and a crossbow with 20 or so arrows, and make a run for it for the upper left transit location.

Once there, go across to bridge to the next island. Find the closest transit location and make it your home base. Make chests as needed (I suggest 10-13), and place the furnace at the entrance opening to your "yard" if you will, and that prevents most enemies from entering.

Get set up, and go for those towers as you did with the first island. There are 6 towers on each outlying island by the way.

On this island, you'll finally get rid of the slow firing rifle, and upgrade to a machine gun, which is the best weapon in the game. Be on the lookout for especially sulfur and lead veins, as you'll be needing to craft ammo with them. You can convert all the crystals you brought with you to lead here, so you'll have tons.

Craft machine gun ammo using lead, sulfur, and charcoal. Make strong armor (aim to have 3 sets).

This island is a little more dangerous than the last. Don't stay out at night for any reason. This island is anomaly heavy, so odds are you'll die.

Once you're ready to move on to the next island, you know what to do.

This island is super dangerous compared to the other two, but you'll be fine. You're a pro by now. Keep a stack of antiviral pills with you just in case. You might see a giant creature here or there on this is,and. Don't panic, but also don't slack. They'll kill you in 1 hit. Just shoot then from a distance. Some of them require almost two clips to go down, but luckily you have auto fire, so it's not a huge concern.

When you're done here, don't bother setting up on the center island, just load up on ammo, and supplies. I brought 1700 ammo which was overkill, as I used like 2-300 rounds just blasting all the weird things back to whatever hell they came from with relative ease.

I recommend starting out from the north east transit location, as the entrance to the base is there.

Clear out the monsters and go for the transmitter code thing. Enter in the code you found, and the very lackluster ending will play.

It took me 16 hours, 50 minutes to beat at a leisurely pace, and I experienced 3 crashes along the way, which collectively set me back around 3-4 minutes.

I hope someone out there finds this useful.

Good luck.

[Swagg]

Thanks very much.

[Magnanimouse]

Good walkthrough, thank you.

[Jnx]

You're welcome. I'm glad someone found it useful. I also noticed a few spelling errors, and wrong words used a couple of times, so I've just fixed that up.

[Jaboshua]

very awesome walkthrough. but, a huge problem is that the crossbow is not where you should stop. you can find a machine gun in treasure spots very early in the game. then you go onto getting an industrial axe and mining sulfur and lead then cooking the lead with wood so you can make bullets. it makes early-game a cake-walk. also the rifle is worth keeping for ranged attacks. it has the highest damage out of all weapons. also fishing is overpowered. you can get 2 stacks of meat in like 2 minutes. the traps aren't worth it. also finding the katana is important for saving ammo. you have you sidestep the enemy and hit them at the same time. the tesla weapon is also good for killing low-health enemies at close-medium distance. also killing sheep and bunnies is kinda worthless because very good armor can be gotten by farming crocs and bears with that machine gun. i hope this helps clear some things up.

[crpgnut]

Incredible review/guide jnx, thanks for taking the time to keep tabs on it even now. How do you teleport exaclty?

[Jnx]

Happy it helped someone, so they didn't feel as lost as I did, when I played through it :)

You can teleport by looking at your map and clicking on any already visited safe hut location (I think that was the name, it has been a few years). You need to make sure, you're not in combat, or it won't work.

[crpgnut]

Thanks, again. I finally figured out you don't click on the hut icon but rather something that looks like an array. Once I did that it warped me back home.

[MAE MAE!]

WOW!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I just started playing this game and I am totally lost! Came on here looking for answers, and I got a ton of help! How do I light my furnace?How do I make my stone walls rotate, if needed, before I put them down