As a player that absolutely eats up simulation games, this one stands out as pretty dang exceptional to me. The art is fabulous. The music is chill and relaxing. The polish and smoothness are way up there. The play loop is enthralling (but more automation is needed here and there). I racked up 36 hours in the last 2 weeks without even realizing it. Thoroughly jazzed to see all the updates in 1.0. Great work here, devs!

Great Fun Survival Builder Game ♥

I have been playing this game since it first release during early access back 2019. Couldn't be more happy to see it finally made it to 1.0 full releases. :D

Flotsam is quite unique survival colony builder where you start with survivors after the great flood on a boat, sailing, collect resources and growing your colony with no combat, fill with a wonderful art style and a quirky cutie survivors (also you can be friend with seagull).

Rather than feeling like everything is falling apart and that hope is lost (like most game that set after some catastrophe event), Flotsam however, make you feel hopeful as you growing your colony, which I find it a rather wonderful idea, and that, in my opinion, make Flotsam quite unique on it own.

Recommend to anyone looking for a cute tiny colony/builder game, it is addictive, can be challenge if not careful, yet enjoyable. I love everything in this game, (especially those seagull). A Waterworld experience minus crazy stunts, or hostile world with expensive floating island and Kevin Costner :P, Flotsam is highly enjoyable. ♥

There is no settings for VSYNC or FPS Limit.
The game just starts at 800 FPS in the main menu and cooks my GPU to 400W, to render absolutely nothing.

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EDIT: Developer just added vsync after 7 days of release (and 7 years of early access)
I felt bad for writing the top negative review with 103 likes.
This game got destroyed in early reviews for being a buggy mess.

ON THE PLUS SIDE:
* The devs have been rolling daily fixes.
* They added vsync and fixed a few crashes (I had two crashes in 10 hours fixed now).
* They fixed quests getting stuck (didn't affect me).

ON THE MINUS SIDE:
* random walkways were bugged and impossible to upgrade, a cosmetic bug since release (some say since 2019)
* the last update removed walkway's menu, which prevents to move them at all, making the game unplayable
* the game intentionally doesn't allow to move a building, you have to fully deconstruct and reconstruct, in a very slow and gruelling process
* deconstruction is bugged since release, some steps don't trigger at all or might happen after an hour, making the game unplayable

I tried to play this evening, reorganized 3 docks + 3 salvage boats, sadly they all got stuck in deconstruction. I am giving up now and going to bed (after updating this review!). I actually have to stop playing, crews will start dying if I have to play another hour like that, with limited ability to collect food/water/items.

It pains me to write this because the game is actually quite nice and chill when it works.
Maybe try again in 30 days.