In terms of music and visual aspects "The Flame in the Flood" feels like an eye-catching title but when it comes to gameplay, this game doesn't offer much.
The gameplay consists of two parts: guiding a raft and exploring ports.
In the first, you are on a very simple raft (which you can upgrade throughout the game) and your aim is to guide it to the ports. Now, since you are on flooded land, you can only go downstream. You have to just aim for the ports and try to dock as many of them as possible, once you depart a port there is no going back. Since you can't come back, your exploration gets limited and it's not very joyful.
In the ports (which lead to a variety of lands) there are resources, camps, and sometimes dangers. Limitations of carrying items hit right at the start and since there is no way of coming back to previous ports, every item that gets left behind is gone forever.
The balance of resources and dangers is somewhat weak. You mostly get elementary stuff but all of a sudden you find yourself attacked by a wild boar. Since you don't have anything to fight with, you run and make it to the next port, where instead of a boar you face a wolf, and in the next instead of one wolf now you have to face off against a pack of wolves! And the next one is a boss fight with a big wild boar. And you still don't have any access to any real weapons which making them requires having a boar pelt to create an item which with that you can create another item to use yet another item for fighting!
The limitations and imbalances, besides the not-so-user-friendly menus, easily tire you. Also, in just a few hours, everything becomes repeated and bores you out.
There is an endless mode that you probably could play so you can learn things through trial and error and use the experience in the campaign but the funny thing is that when I tried to play that mode the game said it was going to save it over my campaign saves!
If I want to say it short, "The Flame in the Flood" art is somewhat worthwhile but the gameplay doesn't do any justice to the art and lets you down easily.

In terms of music and visual aspects "The Flame in the Flood" feels like an eye-catching title but when it comes to gameplay, this game doesn't offer much. The gameplay consists of two parts: guiding a raft and exploring ports. In the first, you are on a very simple raft (which you can upgrade throughout the game) and your aim is to guide it to the ports. Now, since you are on flooded land, you can only go downstream. You have to just aim for the ports and try to dock as many of them as possible, once you depart a port there is no going back. Since you can't come back, your exploration gets limited and it's not very joyful. In the ports (which lead to a variety of lands) there are resources, camps, and sometimes dangers. Limitations of carrying items hit right at the start and since there is no way of coming back to previous ports, every item that gets left behind is gone forever. The balance of resources and dangers is somewhat weak. You mostly get elementary stuff but all of a sudden you find yourself attacked by a wild boar. Since you don't have anything to fight with, you run and make it to the next port, where instead of a boar you face a wolf, and in the next instead of one wolf now you have to face off against a pack of wolves! And the next one is a boss fight with a big wild boar. And you still don't have any access to any real weapons which making them requires having a boar pelt to create an item which with that you can create another item to use yet another item for fighting! The limitations and imbalances, besides the not-so-user-friendly menus, easily tire you. Also, in just a few hours, everything becomes repeated and bores you out. There is an endless mode that you probably could play so you can learn things through trial and error and use the experience in the campaign but the funny thing is that when I tried to play that mode the game said it was going to save it over my campaign saves! If I want to say it short, "The Flame in the Flood" art is somewhat worthwhile but the gameplay doesn't do any justice to the art and lets you down easily.