KickStarter Pine -- "a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain."

[rusty_shackleford]

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twirlbound/pine-an-action-adventure-game-that-adapts-to-you
Steam Greenlight: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=808846636

https://pine-game.com




https://af.gog.com/game/pine?as=1649904300

Might be a repost? The title is pretty generic but I didn't find anything.

ABOUT THIS GAME

A Story of Humans
Pine is an open world action adventure simulation game. Set in the beautiful world of Albamare, you take on the role of Hue, a smart young adult who will have to explore, trade, and fight his way through a vibrant world filled with creatures much smarter than humans.

Their Story Becomes Yours
As you're looking for a new home for your tribe to settle in, you'll have to engage with the large-scale ecology of Albamare. Prepare by exploring, bartering, talking, crafting and fighting in six different biomes, with and against a diverse cast of species that will not simply help you.

A Struggle for Survival
In Pine, things will happen across the open game world even without your involvement. All organisms are alive and will try what they can to survive. You can choose to befriend a species, fight alongside them, or you may also to attack them, steal their food or force them to abandon their current habitat. All of this will make the species move across the ecological spectrum.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Definitely! Reminds me already a bit of Outward.

 

[Tigranes]

You mean Kenshi right

I'm wary of open world in general as the easiest way to screw up your game, but I love the premise.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Kenshi, Outward, same difference. Shades of both.

 

[Drax]

a vibrant world filled with creatures much smarter than humans.

Followed by a gif showing the PC casually kiting 3 dumbass enemies.

 

[Terenty]

Sounds like Rain World, doubt they will be able to pull off AI and emergent gameplay on the same level though

 

[polo]

Coming out next month it seems.

 

[thesecret1]

why is PC a manlet?

 

[Ramnozack]

Looks like furry trash

 

[a Goat]

Maybe it'll be okay. Outward was terrible

 

[Fedora Master]

>Hue
So a Brazil simulator?

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I'm skeptical about how exactly the AI is meant to seem smarter than humans. Still, sounds cool, and I like that they haven't gone with an edgy artstyle

 

[Viata]

The only way for humans to not be the top of the food chain is by humans not being able to create a community or there are monsters in this setting. The first one usually happens if humans are unable to communicate with each other(like Planet of the Apes) or unable to advance from more primitive level(to the point of not being able to use fire and not make/use weapons and only able to hunt fruits) and the second case would just make this game sounds stupid with "not the top of the food chain" when you are forced to create something that clearly can't exist.
Given that you are supposed to find a new home for your tribe and are using weapons, this game makes no sense at all and going to be some furry paradise game, sadly.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

Looks like furry trash

I've come across some witty beavers in my day, but not a single of them knew a damn thing about time travel, labor division, or how to build a Dyson sphere.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Releases tomorrow

 

[luj1]

Kenshi, Outward, same difference. Shades of both.

Some BotW too.

 

[Dodo1610]

I found a german review https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/pine-im-test-tiere-an-die-macht,3349968.html
Score 73

The reviewer likes the simulated world with factions and a dynamic economy but complains that the combat is janky, "torture" and that there is too much grind.

I might be interested if I wasn't forced to play the brown kid, why even bother to build cool races if you can only play as the most generic one.

 

[toro]

This looks like Zelda BotW.

Is anyone playing it?

 

[toro]

 

[Jinn]

I'm definitely very interested. Main things holding me back: the art style and impressions on difficulty. I think if the gameplay is solid, I could look past my problems with the aesthetics. Don't want to buy it and find out it's piss easy though.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

This looks cool. I'm not super excited about any releases for like 6 months so I think I'll pick this up

 

[Jinn]

This looks cool. I'm not super excited about any releases for like 6 months so I think I'll pick this up

Let us know what you think!

 

[Rahdulan]

This Serb seems to like it.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Some BotW too.

A little more than "some". Closer to "re-skin".

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

This is an odd one. I've been playing this a bit. I like the village system and the associated subsystems, but everything else is mediocre.