![]() That’s really why I recommend at least trying A Girl Adrift out. Obviously, due to the reported grinding and high play time above, this reward loop eventually grinds to a halt, but the hours I did play always had something to do, somewhere to sail to, and quickly accumulating levels and fish cakes. Leveling up is fast, quests are generally quick and easy to complete, and rank ups (which are like levels but ranks generally unlocks new abilities) come slower, but still often enough to remember they exist. What makes A Girl Adrift work in what sounds like pretty bog standard mobile gameplay is that, at least in the beginning, the game rewards you frequently. You’ll go from location to location, fishing up normal fish and bosses, picking up quests and repeating. ![]() Catching a fish provides fishcakes (used to buy upgrades) and experience. You hold down on the touch screen for a bit to determine the depth you’ll cast the line at (deeper means higher level fish), wait for a bite, then tap the screen rapidly in order to whittle down a fish’s health bar to catch it. So if not the storyline, what should you play A Girl Adrift for? Honestly, it has some simple, yet rewarding and somewhat addictive gameplay. The point is… if you’re looking for a story you can complete, I really don’t think A Girl Adrift is going to be the title to download. The game does have a playtime calendar, but in order to get to that point the Redditor had to both hack the game for infinite resources and leave it on overnight to catch fish to grind, thus the rough gametime estimate. One Redditor managed to grind through the game and see the game’s ending, but he reports that it probably took somewhere between 800-1000 hours (!!) to see the ending. Thing is, though, it takes an absurd amount of grinding to get to any sort of end-point. It really seems like A Girl Adrift sort of abandons any plot as soon as you begin, barring the aforementioned NPC quips, but in actuality, the game does have a full plot and an ending. The world’s greatly expanded ocean is now full of strange sea life, and the majority of the time you’ll be fishing them up for experience and quest completion. The Flood, as it is called, seems to have taken place rather recently, as many NPCs will make causal mentions of the time before The Flood. It’s a risk that paid off, though, as while A Girl Adrift is far from perfect, it still manages to be an addictive title that can fill those dead periods waiting in line at the bank, or what have you.Ī Girl Adrift takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, one that’s flooded over with very little remaining land. I didn’t know a thing about A Girl Adrift before it popped up in my Google Play recommendations I watched the trailer and decided to give it a try, which is probably against what most would think is a good idea on a mobile marketplace. It’s free-to-play, with micro-transactions, but the paid for bits are mostly cosmetic, with the ‘bonuses’ of paid for gear so minuscule they might as well not even be there. Our first game under the microscope is A Girl Adrift, described as a ‘tap fishing RPG’ by the developers. ![]() What you experience together will bring you closer.Let’s get started then. PLAN YOUR DIVES: Choose whether to study creatures, investigate secrets or dive new areas, then come back to your base to study samples in the lab, chat to Ellery or read her journals to understand more about this world.īUILD A LASTING RELATIONSHIP: Through limited communication learn more about the person whose suit you inhabit, and help guide her towards a terrible truth. Read Ellery’s notes, look at her sketches, and help her classify an entirely new ecosystem. Interpret signals, set headings, and map the ocean through experimentation and intuition.īECOME A XENOBIOLOGIST: Discover and catalogue species through observation, scanning, taking samples, and interacting with alien life. SEE THE WORLD THROUGH AN AI LENS: Navigate an elegant, intuitive UI via touch or gamepad controls. Unlock upgrades and make discoveries that allow you to open up new paths, uncovering strange creatures and environments as you do. What will you discover together?ĮXPLORE AN ALIEN OCEAN: Freely dive into an expansive section of seafloor, from shimmering reefs to inky depths. ![]() A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. ** WINNER OF THE INDIECADE 2019 JURY PRIX AWARD **
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