Ośmiu rozbitków walczy o przetrwanie na wyspie skrywającej niejedną tajemnicę.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MaAGmDfR0M&list=PLW0kJB6mYV45RBqbcIZXwKTgBgmiA0msv

Gatunek: survival / zarządzanie ekipą / RPG
Zadania: opieka nad ośmioma rozbitkami, przydzielanie zadań, dbanie o statystyki, relacje i potrzeby, eksploracja wyspy, zbieranie surowców, crafting (ognisko, wędka, garnek).

+ Przykuwająca oko kreska
+ Rozbudowany system statystyk (4 grupy po 4)
+ Elementy eRPeGowe (postacie zbierają doświadczenie i poprawiają umiejętności)
+ Wciągająca (przynajmniej za 1. podejściem)
+ Ciekawy system relacji i dialogów pomiędzy rozbitkami

- Nowa gra różni się od poprzedniej zaledwie rozłożeniem wydarzeń na mapie, cechami i po części statystykami postaci; reszta pozostaje bez zmian, przez co kolejne rozgrywki mogą nużyć monotonią
- Duży element losowości (czasem złowisz 10 ryb, czasem żadnej)
- Podczas rozdzielania pożywienia nie można podejrzeć statystyk postaci (muszę pamiętać, która postać ma 0% sickness, co jest ważne przy karmieniu rybą / surowym mięsem)

Lubię zabawę statystykami, rozmyślanie nad optymalnym i najefektywniejszym podziałem obowiązków, zarządzanie zespołem, przedmiotami itp. więc z rozgrywki czerpię dość spory fun. Obawiam się jednak, że to tylko gra na jedno podejście.

7+/10

(obecnie grę jeszcze ogrywam, recenzja może ulec zmianie do czasu jej przejścia)

Gra idealna do posiedzenia, odprężenia się i posłuchania opowieści postaci, które miejscami są tak wciągające, że nie można się oderwać, a brak języka polskiego nie przeszkadza w rozgrywce. Nawet, jeżeli ktoś nie czuje się pewny może przetłumaczyć dialogi w jakimkolwiek translatorze. Polecam tę grę głównie dlatego, że można przy niej mile spędzić czas i przy okazji potrenować umiejętność planowania. Produkt ten jest w czołówce najbardziej lubianych przeze mnie gier, i przez długi czas jeszcze w niej będzie. Cena według mnie jest ciut za wysoka na steamie, lecz na innych platformach można ją aktualnie kupić w granicach 5 złotych. Tania, Wciągająca, a przede wszystkim ciekawa. Mocne 9/10

Just completed the game. Took about 10 hours from start to finish, though I restarted at one point so my whole playtime was longer.

Short version: I liked it. It’s got a nice visual style. It falls somewhere in between a casual game and one of those that takes forever to learn and takes over your lfe. It's definitely more complex, difficult and well-made than a casual game. I was impressed by the way everything was presented in a very accessible way, despite the mechanics actually being fairly involved. I wouldn't replay it (mostly because there doesn't seem to be much else to uncover), but thought it was great while it lasted. It's actually harder in the first half than after (basically once you’ve unlocked all the research it gets a lot easier, probably a little too easy). Even still, the developers still have a few tricks up their sleeves to keep things interesting at that point.

Basic Premise
In Dead in Bermuda, you control eight characters who are stranded on a Bermuda island after a plane crash. You assign each person two tasks each day, collect and use resources, and manage their various maladies. The goal is to survive, explore the island and find a way off it. The characters each have vastly different stat attributes and various relationships with one another (there’s a husband and wife, father and daughter pair, etc.).

For the most part, this is a management-style game. To a smaller extent, there are small quests, dialog, but much of this is pretty linear, so you have limited control over it. There's also some plot twists that may come up also that complicate things a bit, once you're further into the game.

Gameplay
Your main points of concern are: their stats/skills, their maladies (fatigue, hunger, depression, sickness, injury), their resources, and relationships. Their stats, skills, maladies, relationships with each other are all interrelated and correlated in various ways and impact their effectiveness at tasks. Managing these elements is at the heart of the game, and striking a good, complex balance is what the game does really well.

To survive, you need to manage their maladies – if any reach 100%, that character dies. Ideally, you want to leave the island with everyone! As you research, you will gain access to new tasks which give you access to new resources or easier ways to produce certain resources. Meanwhile, you're also exploring the island, which consists of 100 plots, which nets you resources and sends you off on various quests. The quests are pretty simple and don't significantly affect gameplay, but I thought they were fun, and you meet some colorful characters.

One big plus for me was how the main points of concern shifts as the game progresses. For example, at first, finding food is your main problem to contend with. However, very quickly, you notice your sicknesses are building up and things you were ignoring before might kill you. (Which is why I had to restart, haha) But as soon as you sort that out, then other concerns take over, etc. Kept me on my toes.

To win the game, you need to explore the island, and I won’t give away the rest, but let’s just say yes there's a way off the island. In terms of strategy, it doesn’t have a huge effect, but it brings some variety into the mix.

Difficulty
I would say that this game is much harder and more interesting in the beginning half than the ending half. The hardest part is staying alive the first 15-20 days. Since you have limited access to resources, you have to be very strategic. I loved the first half of this game. Thought it was delightful and interesting and a very healthy level of difficulty. It’s well-paced and well-designed.

The second half or so, for me somewhere around 50 days in I think, gets a little tedious once you have researched everything and have consistent access to all resources. The quests provide some entertainment to get you through it. (The plot twists are also thrown in there, which may impact your strategy as well, but they involve a little more guesswork than I'd prefer. Not my favorite aspect of the game.)

Replayability
There’s not much variation from game to game, apart from some randomness in the locations of occurrences when exploring the island and personality modifiers for the characters. As far as I can tell, there’s no new content that I’m missing out on by not replaying it, so I think the replay value is pretty low. I wish there were at least alternate endings depending on how quickly you finish the game or something, but whatever.

Overall
Overall, I really enjoyed the game, even if it was a little of a grind towards the end. For me, it hit a sweet spot of being both strategically complex and also accessible. Even though I would not replay it, I thought it was well worth my time and money. Definitely one of the better games I've played in a while.

This game cant be beat anymore, I think its fault of some patches. Ive tried it 3 times, 3rd time after watching some playtrough, Ive done everything the same as in this video and still keep losing in that same moment, all of my charakters keep dying from hunger. You cant build fishing pole/cooking station soon enough to save them, hunger is increasing too much and too fast to feed everybody in time. Its like spiral of death and there is no option to survive unless you sacrifice some members, even then I think it will be hard with fever members you wont get food fast enough.

Dead In Bermuda to strategia stawiająca na element przetrwania na bezludnej wyspie – za stworzenie gry odpowiada studio CCCP natomiast wydawcą było Dear Villagers. Produkcja ukazała się w 2015 roku i trafiła wyłącznie na komputery osobiste, w 2016 roku gra zagościła również na urządzeniach z systemem Android i iOS.

Szata graficzna jest klimatyczna oraz przyjemna, została wykonana w sposób komiksowy – wszystkie elementy otoczenia, postacie i tym podobne zostały wykonane w formie dwuwymiarowej. Wszystko wygląda naprawdę bardzo ładnie, zwłaszcza w tej czerwono-pomarańczowej otoczce – zbytnio nie ma co się rozpisywać bo grafika jest prosta, nieskomplikowana i ma swój urok.

Optymalizacja oczywiście stoi na najwyższym poziomie – RTX 2070 z procesorem 9 generacji na najwyższych możliwych ustawieniach w rozdzielczości 3840x2160 (4K) wyciska stałe 144kl/s. Wynik to jest niesamowity, ale jest on taki tylko dzięki nieskomplikowanej grafice – mimo wszystko przyjemnie jest oglądać tak płynną rozgrywkę.

Ścieżka dźwiękowa jest naprawdę klimatyczna pomimo tego, że zawiera bardzo małą ilość utworów – muzyka, która nam przygrywa jest taka dziwnie naturalna oraz relaksująca. Po prostu idealny akompaniament do tej wspaniałej oraz mitycznej przygody jaką jest przygoda na Bermudach.

W Dead in Bermuda przyjdzie nam sterować grupą ośmiu ocalałych z katastrofy samolotowej – wyspa, na której rozbitkowie się znajdują jest niesamowicie niebezpieczna oraz pełna mitycznych tajemnic do zbadania. Musimy zadbać o to by naszej grupie niczego nie zabrakło oraz nie zginęli w w niebezpiecznej dżungli – po pewnym czasie eksploracji będziemy starali się dowiedzieć o czym mówi tajemnicze proroctwo oraz jak wydostać się z tej przeklętej wyspy. Sama rozgrywka w sobie jest mocno nieliniowa i to od nas zależy jak potoczą się losy poszczególnych bohaterów w tej historii a zwłaszcza, że postacie mogą się znienawidzić lub zakochać w sobie a to rodzi kolejne problemy podczas relacji w obozie – warto ukończyć przygodę więcej niż jeden raz by zobaczyć jakie wydarzenia jeszcze mogą mieć miejsce.

Gra jest nietypową strategią z tym, że mamy tylko osiem „jednostek”, którym możemy wydawać polecenia – każda z postaci jest inna, posiada inną osobowość oraz umiejętności. Musimy dbać aby każdy z bohaterów był najedzony, napojony, wypoczęty a poza tym musimy sobie radzić z różnymi chorobami, obrażeniami oraz depresją, która toczy całą grupę ludzi. Każdy dzień dzieli się na dwie tury, w których poszczególne postacie wykonują zadania takie jak tworzenie przedmiotów, polowanie, ścinanie drewna, eksploracja wyspy i nie tylko – z tym ostatnim wiąże się główny wątek fabularny.

Podsumowując Dead in Bermuda to naprawdę solidna gra o przyjaznej i komiksowej grafice, fantastycznej optymalizacji, klimatycznej ścieżce dźwiękowej, relaksującej rozgrywce oraz mitycznym wątku fabularnym. Moja ocena tego dzieła to mocne i zasłużone 7+/10.

Niezwykła gra, która potrafi wciągnąć.
Polecam ;)

Jeżeli lubisz gry, w których trzeba craftować przedmioty, pilnować aby nikt z Twoich rozbitków nie umarł z głodu albo zmęczenia czy też choroby, a do tego wszystkiego chcesz aby miały ciekawą historię, którą by odkryć trzeba eksplorować otoczenie, to Dead in Bermuda jest idealna dla Ciebie.

Dead in Bermuda is a game about a crashed plane on an island in the Bermuda triangle. The 8 survivors from the crash must find a way to rally themselves, survive, and eventually escape the island. Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? Well, it is not!

As I usually do in my reviews, let's take a look at the good and the bad about this game.

The GOOD:
1. The artwork is very thematic, the models are great and the locations that you will visit are unique.
2. The characters in the game (the 8 survivors) aren't just names in a spreadsheet - every single one of them has a story, a personality, a pattern of behaviour and/or an agenda that they will follow throughout the whole adventure.
3. The interactions between the survivors are very interesting to follow and read. It is a story of friendship, intrigues, stupid remarks, psychotic outbreaks and a lot of heart, all in one neat package. The interactions also vary, based on what kind of state the adventure and the person is, which is a very welcome design decision.
4. Every character has a skillset that is randomly determined at the start of the game, without deviating too far from their personality.
5. The is an RPG progression in the game, which is comparable to that of The Elder Scrolls franchise - the more you do a certain activity, the better you get at it. However, you also get a number of skill points to distribute based on the Intelligence of the survivors, which can lead to various "builds".
6. The survivors also gain various character traits based on what is happening during their adventure. They can be either positive or negative and you have no control over them.
7. It is very easy to relate to one or more of the survivors, which forms a deep connection between them and the player. You will love and hate some of them, or all of them.
8. A good challenge - the game is very challenging, especially until you manage to get a good survival system up and running. Once you do, there are still factors that can ruin your adventure, which I find extremely important. This lets the game transcend the simple point and click adventure.
9. A nice base to look at, which changes depending on the time of day.
10. A fool-proof system - you get a warning about pretty much anything that could result in a game over, which is a very welcome addition to the game.
11. You need to make a number of very, very hard choices, from who gets which meal to who gets to live or die.
12. Good value for the money - it will take you at least 10 hours to get used to the game and win, and even more of you want to have a second go at it and unlock all the achievements.

Now let's take a look at the BAD, or the things I found lacking or I didn't enjoy in the game.

1. The game has a very steep learning curve which may irritate you on a number of occasions.
2. The story is... passable. It's not the best out there but it's not the worst. I could tell you more, but I don't want to let any spoilers out.
3. Luck plays a huge factor in this game. While better skills result in better percentages to succeed, the almighty RNGesus might still make you look like a fool - for example by failing a 99% chance to succeed roll.
4. You have no control over the traits your survivors gain, meaning you can sometimes end up with a guy who gets easily sick, hungry, and tired at the same time, which is not a pretty sight to endure.
5. The English in the game is sometimes a bit wonky, misrepresenting a fact or two in the game.
6. If you are a sensitive person, you will not like the fact that you might sometimes have to send someone to their death or see them perish because you were forced to choose one survivor over the other.
7. The base, while looking pretty, seems quite outstretched, making you move the screen left and right a lot. While the devs made a few recent changes to remedy the situation, it is still a slight annoyance.
8. It seems that there is a problem with some achievements - while I am not an achievement hunter, it might irritate some players. The devs are hard at work to fix them, though.
9. The replayability - only the map layout, the starting skills, the traits that you will gain during your adventure and the character interactions based on the state the adventure currently is will change the way the game plays. Everything else stays the same.

The conclusion:
I am going to give this game a careful recommendation. The beautiful artwork, the interesting character interactions, the exploration factor and the rpg-like elements are a strong selling point to this game. I have felt a very strong connection to every single sirvivor and felt compelled to do my best to keep him/her alive throughout the adventure. Learning more about them, their past, and their agenda is extremely satisfying and keeps you either entertained, or on edge throughout the game. The game is only hindered by its mediocre main story, the replayability factor and the steep learning curve. While it can easily reel any type of gamer in, it can also irritate you the hell off and force you to shelve the game. It is up to you to decide if the positives outweigh the negatives.

I, personally, had a very good bit of fun with it.

Po postawieniu kuchni i wymaksowaniu każdego bohatera nie ma nic do roboty, przetrwanie spełnione, poza eksploringiem który ogranicza się do monotonnego wysyłania i powrotu do obozowiska, co bardziej znudza jak przyciąga i daje uczucie obowiązku narzuconego przez autorów,

tl;dr Try the demo, it's fun and the concept is interesting, But the full game is unbalanced and broken. 5.5/10

I'm still making my mind up about this game as I write this review. On one hand, this is a very interesting survival game with so-so graphics. On the other hand the difficulty is rigged for you to lose. I think I would easily say this game is worth the purchase if it weren't for that last point. Let me explain...

So the game increases in difficulty as you play it. The principal mechanic is that you get less loot for the same action as time goes on. Down the line, mistakes in how you task your people can lead to them being too tired or depressed to do the actions required to keep the group alive. However, there are more than a few mechanics that break the standard of "fair" in a game, and no I'm not talking about "le rogue skillz" that you see in that tired genre. I'm talking about a mechanic where as a character gets fatigued they can't sleep to remove the fatigue, and sleep is the only option to remove said fatigue (other than a random chance location/item).

The real mechanic is this:

Character A does a task that increases fatigue. To reduce fatigue, Character A must sleep. Fatigue reduction from sleep is based on Character A's constitution stat. The constitution stat is reduced by Character A's fatigue.....

As you have probably noticed, we have a closed loop that will almost always lead to Character A dying ultimately the game ending. And as stated above, there is no way around the mechanic. Put in simpler terms, your character is too tired to sleep.. which doesn't make sense. Also of note is that all characters (presumably) sleep at night, yet they only acquire negative statuses and do not remove fatigue.

There are other examples of faulty mechanics but this one is the most obvious. And the more I think about it, the more I think that I can't recommend this game. It's a shame really, because despite the game having some interesting elements, and although simple in some regards (graphically, camp activities, etc), it offers up some enjoyable moments and really makes you think about how you are going to help this group to survive.

I could easily see this game being rated higher than what I'm going to rate it; if only it were better balanced. But the issues like fatigue/sleep are fundamental design flaws. You can make a game tough and still make it fair. And at the end of the day this game just isn't fair.

And I guess I've made up my mind and I'm not going to recommend this game. If the issues were fixed and the game balanced I could easily flip my review to something I'd recommend. However, the current issues are game breaking. 5.5/10.