Necesse
is a
Survival Sandbox game by Mads Skovgaard. As with other games of this genre, the player spawns in the wilderness with some basic wooden tools, and uses these tools to gather materials, make better tools and weapons, and build shelter.
Colony Builder elements are present, as the player can designate an island as a settlement and recruit travelers and villagers to
automatically perform tasks that would be tedious for the player like fishing or cutting trees. The player can also travel to other islands with different biomes.
Necesse contains the following tropes:
- An Adventurer Is You: While there's nothing forcing players to conform to one class, equipment is designed to push players towards either melee, ranged weapons, ranged magic, or summons.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- Smart Mining can be toggled on, which automatically moves the cursor to a different block of stone once you're done mining one block.
- If you've set it so you drop all items on death, they will be re-equipped and set to the same slots on the hotbar when you retrieve them.
- If you beat a boss before getting the quest to slay it, it will still be counted once you do get the quest.
- Arbitrary Minimum Range: Spears will miss any enemy that are too close, since only the tip inflicts damage.
- Arrows on Fire: Stone arrows can be combined with a torch to add Damage Over Time.
- Bubblegloop Swamp: Swamps are one of the island types. They have tons of slime blobs and frogs hopping around, slime-covered zombies, and the underground has ivy and mycellum, which are metal instead of plants or mushrooms. It's also the only biome that doesn't have villages.
- Defeat Means Friendship: The Pirate Captain boss turns into a Broken Pirate NPC upon defeat, who can be recruited to your village for free.
- Equipment-Hiding Fashion: Equipment can be worn in a cosmetic slot over an equipped item, giving its appearance while keeping the stats of a different item. Some items can only be worn as cosmetics.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: Even though this isn't a horror game, zombies spawn all over the place at night and in caves.
- Final Death Mode: Hardcore mode can be enabled when creating a world, which prevents respawning after death.
- Flunky Boss: Most bosses are accompanied by swarms of minions to make them harder to fight.
- Gameplay Automation: Settlers can be asked to automatically do certain tasks like cutting down trees, planting and harvesting seeds, or fishing.
- Gangplank Galleon: Pirate Villages are one of the island types, and consist of many cabins filled with treasure and some hostile buccaneers who defend it with guns and cutlasses.
- Giant Spiders: Giant spiders are enemies that can be found in web-covered areas of caves. An even bigger spider, the Queen Spider, is the boss of the Ice Caves.
- Green Hill Zone: Forests and fields are the default island type, and an easy place to start your settlement due to lacking any unique and dangerous enemies and having plentiful trees.
- An Interior Designer Is You: There are many craftable pieces of furniture that serve no purpose to the player, but they aren't fully useless, since a well-decorated room makes settlers happy and makes them work faster.
- Item Crafting: It's a Survival Sandbox game, so this is a given. The main gameplay loops consists of finding materials, using these materials to make better tools, using these tools to either get rarer materials or advanced crafting stations, and so on. Settlers can be asked to automatically craft certain items.
- Metal Slime: Cavelings rarely spawn in every cave type. They look like normal rocks until you approach them, which causes them to run away. They drop a large amount of the biome's rarest ore type if you can kill them.
- Our Vampires Are Different: They only spawn in the Vampire Crypt mini-biome (in Forest and Ice Caves). They can switch between bat and humanoid form at will and fire bolts of magic.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Ice islands and villages are one of the biome types. They have Polar Bears and Penguins wandering around the surface, evil blue-skinned dwarves in the underground, and the obligatory patches of ice that make it hard to move around.
- Summon Magic: One of the main types of weapons. They summon some creatures that follow you and automatically attack enemies. You can only have a limited amount of summons at once, which can be boosted with equipment or potions.
- We Buy Anything: The Pawnbroker randomly drops by and can be used to exchange any item for gold coins.
