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Last Oasis’s walking wooden forts drift into early accessPapercuts aplenty
Papercuts aplenty
Oh, to float above the battlefield on a balsa-wood centipede. On many levels, survival MMOLast Oasisis nothing new - a world where humanity is back at the beginning, feuding tribes fighting over scarce resources. Only,Last Oasisimagines a world where the sole survivors of a devastating meteor-strike are artisan woodcarvers, fighting on the back of fantastical mechanical timber contraptions. That’s one hell of a hook, and it’s one you can try out now on Steam Early Access.
Who said a post-apocalypse needed to be all rusted steel and guzzoline, anyway?
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See, there’s been a nasty post-apocalypse that’s left most of the Earth uninhabitable, save for a shifting temperate band that spans the globe. Travelling between safe oases, you’ll have to protect your papercraft battlemech from beasts, rival warbands, and even Dune-as-hell sandworms.
On that, there are parts of the game that seem a little too familiar. Permanent structures can be built up (why?), crafting loops, and that aforementioned combat does seem awfully janky. But then I look at one of those titanic timber tarantulas and think hey, maybe that’ll be alright.
Developers Donkey Crew reckon they’ll spend up to two years in early access. There’s the usual MMO guff to sort out - server infrastructure and the like - and they’ll slowly drip-feed new biomes, game mechanics, beasts and walker types into the game as time goes on. If you want in on the ground floor, Last Oasis is currently onSteamfor £19.74/€20.74/$24.89.
