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Take me down to my boat on the river.



<span class="bold">The Flame in the Flood</span>, a lite roguelike of a girl and her dog scavenging and surviving the deserted backwater America, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com for Windows and Mac, with a 10% launch discount.

When Scout notices the river waters rising, she instinctively grabs her humble belongings and her faithful old dog Aesop, packs them aboard her makeshift raft and sets for higher ground. The river is deep, the river will change her life. Or take it, if she's not careful.

The Flame in the Flood is a personal story, riddled with realistic dangers like hostile wildlife, cold, fatigue, and scarcity of supplies, set in post-societal America. Scott Sinclair, the studio's art director and Bioshock alumni, apparently had a pivotal role in setting the tone of the game. But it's the procedurally-generated river Scout rafts through that became the pillar on top of which the gameplay was built. The developers also admit that working as a small team posed unique challenges and the community feedback helped guide them through the process, fine-tuning the survival, rafting, and crafting mechanics that make up the experience.



Let the flow of emotions and survival instincts wash over you as you Scout ahead in <span class="bold">The Flame in the Flood</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% launch discount will last until March 2nd, 1:59 PM GMT.
I was a bit puzzled when I first saw it on the front page, but the videos look real nice. Wishlisted.
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Luned: Huck Finn+To Kill A Mockingbird+Deliverance?
Uh...so, it's a hayseed courtroom drama featuring unwanted sodomy? :o
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Luned: Huck Finn+To Kill A Mockingbird+Deliverance?
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HunchBluntley: Uh...so, it's a hayseed courtroom drama featuring unwanted sodomy? :o
Hello! Can we get a *SPOILER* alert first!

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;)
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HunchBluntley: Uh...so, it's a hayseed courtroom drama featuring unwanted sodomy? :o
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Ixamyakxim: Hello! Can we get a *SPOILER* alert first!

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Raft on a giant river + "Scout" + Whitewater rafting in dangerous backwoods?

I could've thrown in "My mother is a fish" from As I Lay Dying, but I really dislike Faulkner.
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Luned: Raft on a giant river + "Scout" + Whitewater rafting in dangerous backwoods?
Jokes aside, I genuinely was wondering where the connection lay with that middle one. Frankly, "main character of game shares a name with main character of [another, otherwise dissimilar work]" = "game is like [aforementioned other work]" is not a connection I would have made on my own. (Though I realize your tongue was probably somewhere in the vicinity of your cheek when you made that comparison in the first place. =) )
Hmm... Wishlisted. I want to see some gameplay (and reviews) before I decide on it.
Looks really nice, but does anyone know about DLCs? Would hate to see some coming in a few weeks, since I won't have time for a replay.
Nice release, it looks interesting. Do it have RPG elements or I am wrong?
Never heard of this one. But the videos look really nice, so I'll prolly pick it up at some point.
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gogamess: Nice release, it looks interesting. Do it have RPG elements or I am wrong?
Seems more rogue-like than RPG. A slightly different story will play out everytime you play it, how far you get is based on your resource management and a little bit of luck. Like FTL, but without like, space and star trek.

But I havn't played it so take my comments with a little salt. I do know a rogue-like when I see one, and they do have a fair few similarities to RPG's. Hence, it's immediately wishlisted for me.
Post edited February 25, 2016 by bad_fur_day1
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Bavarian: That looks surprisingly good! Don't like the title though. Sounds more like a book than a video game.
"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."
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Bavarian: That looks surprisingly good! Don't like the title though. Sounds more like a book than a video game.
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EckoShy: "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."
Not if you called it a stink blossom
Looks interesting. how is the estimated length of the game?
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Niggles: Looks interesting. how is the estimated length of the game?
It's infinite. The story mode is the same with story parts interspersed and added checkpoints.
I'd love to hear a length of the campaign mode, though, which has a definite ending.

From playing just about an hour yesterday, it seems like there are 10 sections, and I needed about 3 in game days for the first; so 30 to 40 days, maybe?