Caravan crew tries to get by in adventure novel x trading sim set in dark fantasy world

What an intellectual sandbox. It requires lots of planning and reading and rewards you with becoming part of its immersive world. The lore is deep; there is an RPG franchise's worth of content here. Fair warning: The game is hard and savescumming is near mandatory.

Over 200 hours on record.

Yes, I recommend this game providing you are looking for an old school, pen and paper style choose your own adventure style caravan simulator.

The type of caravan is a choice between the usual 3 for these types of games: Explorer, Merchant and Mercenary.

The storylines and attached characters are interesting, they'd have to be for you to go so far to visit some of the worst places humanity can imagine and fight the horrors you find there.

The stories are 99% of the time a book page that you choose your answers on. Yes, there are a lot of words in this. If you can't read well or don't want to, this game absolutely isn't for you.

Combat is difficult to learn and more so to master, party combat and caravan combat both influence each other and both are punishing but once you start to feel out the tactics available to you and sus out the enemies you're fighting you can ensure you always come out ahead.

The economy is simulated well enough but only impacted by your actions, sell to much of something you crash the price and it might take a week or month to recover. You can't affect what goods are produced by factions and try to influence the market that way. I'd like to see goods moved by NPC caravans affect the world to introduce reactive gameplay elements.

Caravan management is in depth, managing your employees and... Uhh... freedomly challanged workers is interesting and has pros and cons to your employment style. Same goes for the types of beast of burden you use, all have pros and cons. There's gear and equipment to install that will affect how you cross the wastes too. I love this aspect of the game.

There's no beating around the bush, this game is hard and you can find yourself in a tail spin, going down, before you've realised it and you're probably looking down the barrel of restarting the game or a soft restart where you make it to a town, downsize everything and get back on your feet with small contracts.

Yes, I recommend this game, I recommend playing it on the default difficulty and once you've played a few hours I recommend playing on 1 save mode where you have to live with the consequences of your choices. This is a game about telling an interesting story, a story without conflict and strife isn't as interesting.

I really enjoy this game. Very original text based adventure with lots to do. The only thing i don't really care for is all the clicks to get to your destination. It'd be great to plan your route and then punch it so it automates parts of the travel and makes it easier on your hands. Otherwise, i really enjoy this game and recommend it!