History VideoGame / Flotsam

* FastForwardMechanic: The game can be played at the default pace, 2x as fast, and 3x as fast. Cute as the default pace is, it's too slow to make gameplay efficient and so you'll be using 3x most of the time. At least for now while there still aren't any threats.

* NoRecycling: Averted. Every building can be brought back to the resources used to make it. Salvaging materials from the islands also occasionally involves breaking down the objects left, like the cars on the Viaduct or the wooden buildings on the Shack Town and Long Island.

* OceanPunk: The whole world is flooded, your town is literally garbage meticulously arranged around a single boat, and seagulls are man's best friend.
* RefiningResources: Advanced resources can be found on the remaining islands - some former mountains, others the tops of flooded structures - but not in the quantities you'll be needing. Neither fish nor seaweed can be eaten without preparation. The building material dry wood has to be obtained from drying the otherwise useless wet wood. From dry wood, firewood can be made, which is a fuel needed to power many other facilities (until they're upgraded to the electrical grid), including those producing drinkable water. Plastic is a primarily a building material, but nearly useless as plastic waste, which has to be converted to floaters to get the most out of them.

* SwallowedWhole: The post-flood skill Whalebelly Survivor indicates the drifter resided in a whale for months, gathering scrap until they could fix up their ship and sail right back out.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Food and water are the primary resources required. A game starts with a decent amount of all, but then a race against the clock starts to get the means to generate more food and water all the while keeping your eye on the oil supply. Dry wood and plastic waste are the core building materials, followed closely by metal scrap. Books are needed to research new facilities and new drifters and seagulls must be recruited by saving them from their islands.

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As of October 16, 2020, the challenge of the game is limited to not dying of hunger or thirst, which is easier said than done. Drifters have as of yet no dietary restrictions, but they do have perks that can be beneficial or detrimental. Also recruitable are seagulls, which scavenge the sea's surface for plastic and wood, thereby freeing up time for the drifters.

!!Flotsam provides examples of:

* AfterTheEnd: It's yet to be revealed what happened, but it happened some decades ago and the end result is that the whole world has become flooded. There's only remnants left from what society was before and some of the sea life isn't looking like it used to.

* CelShading: ''Flotsam'' employs a style inbetween ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' and ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands''.

* NoRecycling: Averted. Every building can be brought back to the resources used to make it. Salvaging materials from the "islands" also occasionally involves breaking down the objects left, like the cars on the Viaduct or the wooden buildings on the Shack Town and Long Island.
* PostApocalypticTrafficJam: The Viaduct is an "island" that's actually an elevated road. There's still some abandoned cars left atop of it, which is great for salvaging metal scrap.
* OceanPunk: The whole word is flooded, your town is literally garbage meticulously arranged around a single boat, and seagulls are man's best friend.
* RefiningResources: Advanced resources can be found on the remaining "islands" - some former mountains, others the tops of flooded structures - but not in the quantities you'll be needing. Neither fish nor seaweed can be eaten without preparation. The building material dry wood has to be obtained from drying the otherwise useless wet wood. From dry wood, firewood can be made, which is a fuel needed to power most other facilities, including those producing drinkable water. Plastic is primarily a building material, but also needed to make oil, which is essential to move the town around. And so on.
* ScavengerWorld: Aside from all the water, the key premise of the game is to make the most of trash, since it's close to all that there is left on resources from before the apocalypse. Some things, like wood and plastic, can be found drifting around, while heavy materials like metal and fragile materials like books can only be found on the few remaining "islands" - some former mountains, others the tops of flooded structures. Currently, there's thirteen island types with the following focus loot: Fresh Water Oasis & Leaking Water Tower for drinkable water, Lonely Island & Seagull Nest to recruit drifters and seagulls, Intact Book Shop for books, Seaweed Covered Rocks and Fishing Village for food, Factory Ruins & Viaduct & Abandoned Motor Boats & Overgrown Wooden Ships for metal, and Long Island and Shack Town for a little bit of everything.

* UnwinnableByDesign: As much as as the water supply dwindles rapidly and food isn't an easy gain either until some expensive facilities are unlocked, neither resource is as important to keep up with as oil. Because without oil, you're not going anywhere. Wherever you end up stranded, the food supply will run out eventually, as will the wood supply needed to generate water. Yet in the rush to get food and water, it's very easy to lose sight of how much oil you have left or can produce.
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Oil, food, and water are the primary resources required. A game starts with a decent amount of all, but then a race against the clock starts to get the means to generate more food and water all the while keeping your eye on the oil supply. Dry wood and plastic waste are the core building materials, followed closely by metal scrap. Books are needed to research new facilities and new drifters and seagulls must be recruited by saving them from their islands.

[[caption-width-right:300:Fantastic seas of trash!]]

''Flotsam'' is a whimsical SurvivalSandbox SpaceManagementGame set in a post-apocalyptic, flooded world. The starting point is one functional boat manned by three drifters and the goal is to build a functional, mobile town around with all the trash society left behind when it came to an end. ''Flotsam'' is being developed by Pajama Llama Games as the company's first long-term project. It entered Steam Early Access on 26 Sept, 2019.

* AfterTheEnd: It's yet to be revealed what happened, but it happened some decades ago and dthe end result is that the whole world has become flooded. There's only remnants left from what society was before and some of the sea life isn't looking like it used to.
* AnimeHair: One haircut drifters can have is a ponytail shaped like a fishtail. a female-only haircut involves the hair being wrapped around a bottle.

* CelShading: ''Flotsam'' employs a style reminiscent of ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', but with more detail and transparent water.mm

* UnwinnableByDesign: As much as as the water supply dwindles rapidly and food isn't an easy gain either until some expensive facilities are unlocked, neither resource is as important to keep up with as oil. Because without oil, you're not going anywhere. Wherever you end up stranded, the food supply will run out eventually, as will the wood supply needed to generate water. Yet in the rush to get food and water, it's very easy to lose sight of how much oil you have left or can produce.d

* ScavengerWorld: Aside from all the water, the key premise of the game is to make the most of trash, since it's close to all that there is left on resources from before the apocalypse. Some things, like wood and plastic, can be found drifting around, while heavy materials like metal and fragile materials like books can only be found on the few remaining "islands" - some former mountains, others the tops of flooded structures. Currently, there's thirteen island types with the following focus loot: Fresh Water Oasis & Leaking Water Tower for drinkable water, Lonely Island & Seagull Nest to recruit drifters and seagulls, Intact Book Shop for books, Seaweed Covered Rocks and Fishing Village for food, Factory Ruins & Viaduct & Abandoned Motor Boats & Overgrown Wooden Ships for metal, and Long Island and Shack Town afor various things.

* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Food and water are the primary resources required. A game starts with a decent amount of both, but then a race against the clock starts to get the means to generate more. Dry wood and plastic waste are the core building materials, followed closely by metal scrap. Books are needed to research new facilities and new drifters and seagulls must be recruited by saving them from their islands.

''Flotsam'' is a cheery SurvivalSandbox SpaceManagementGame set in a post-apocalyptic everything-is-flooded-now world. The starting point is a functional boat and three citizens, which are called drifters, to man it and the goal is to build a functional, mobile town around with all the trash society left behind when it came to an end. ''Flotsam'' is being developed by Pajama Llama Games as the company's first long-term project. It entered Steam Early Access on 26 Sept, 2019.

* AfterTheEnd: It's yet to be revealed what exactly happened, but the whole world has become flooded. There's only remnants left from what society was before and some of the sea life isn't looking like it used to.
* AnimeHair: One haircut drifters can have is a ponytail shaped like a fishtail. One female-only haircut involves the hair being wrapped around a bottle.
* CoolBoat: The townheart is a large, oil-fuelled boat with a decent storage capacity (and outright superior water storage capacity). It becomes the center of the town and is the sole means by which the town can be moved across the sea.

* OceanPunk: The whole word is flooded, your town is literally carbage meticulously arranged around a single boat, and seagulls are man's best friend.

* ScavengerWorld: Aside from all the water, the key premise of the game is to make the most of trash, since it's close to all that there is left on resources from before the apocalypse. Some things, like wood and plastic, can be found drifting around, while heavy materials like metal and fragile materials like books can only be found on the few remaining "islands" - some former mountains, others the tops of flooded structures. Currently, there's 12 island types with the following focus loot: Fresh Water Oasis & Leaking Water Tower for drinkable water, Lonely Island & Seagull Nest to recruit drifters and seagulls, Intact Book Shop for books, Seaweed Covered Rocks and Fishing Village for food, Factory Ruins & Viaduct & Abandoned Motor Boats & Overgrown Wooden Ships for metal, and Long Island for various things.
* SpaceManagementGame: You build in a circle around the townheart, a boat. You can not build outside of the limits of that circle, although structures can protrude a little beyond. Mooring points in particular are wise to put on the outskirts as far as possible because only the post needs to be within the circle. The huge amount of space reserved for the boats' movement can be placed outside circle's limits.

* CoolBoat: The townheart is a large, oil-fuelled boat with a decent storage capacity. It becomes the center of the town and is the sole means by which the town can be moved across the sea.

* AnimeHair: One haircut drifters can have is a ponytail shaped like a fishtail.