Neccese is a sort of adventure game where you live in a procedurally generated world, and it has finally been released into 1.0 from early access. Fair Games was nice enough to send me a copy to check out, and I am glad they did.
The general idea is simple: build a settlement, explore the world, kill bosses and enemies. If you ever played games like Terraria, you know the routine, except this time it is top-down, and now you can make villagers do all the stuff you hate. You can also bring friends from online to help; in fact, I recommend this. The game is completely playable solo; in fact, I did at first. It wasn’t until much later that I joined in with some others, and the extra help was great. Having someone else do the mining I didn’t want to be doing while I went fishing was nice.
Bosses are pretty tough but are reasonable with proper prep work, some of which can be summoned right into your town if you want. I find it preferable not to do this; however, not for any reason, my town didn’t get destroyed or anything, it just felt weird fighting a giant monster next to my house.
This does bring me to my few complaints about the game. For one, it gives you very little direction. If you are into the survival element of games like this, within a few minutes, you are pretty much self-sufficient with food. Enemies will spawn next to your house constantly at night, but they are never really a threat, so they are more annoying than anything. Thankfully, your villagers will kill them for you. I built right next to the elder, and he was dead set on murder. He would wake up from a dead sleep to kill anything that came near us. It was pretty impressive.
Is the game worth playing, though? Absolutely. It costs $15 and is sitting at very positive reviews with over 17 thousand reviews, and with very good reason. The replay value is excellent, and if you have friends to play with, you can lose yourself for hours. It is an 8/10 experience that fans of the genre should not miss. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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