For example, a wooden chair might have a damage value of 6. In DYSMANTLE, every item has a health bar and a minimum damage threshold - a single hit with an item below that threshold does not deal damage in any way. This might have resulted in a collection of busywork had it been in less confident hands, but the developers have so perfectly managed the difficulty curve that what should be a chore winds up feeling like a pleasure.

At its core, this experience is about finding the tools necessary to complete a set of tasks. Instead of procedurally-generated shacks and scattered resource piles, DYSMANTLE gives players a huge open world so meticulously and delicately hand-crafted that it almost feels like a shame to tear it all apart in the name of staying alive - assuming, of course, that they have tools strong enough to manage it.ĭYSMANTLE is the new top-down zombie survival game from eclectic developer 10tons, and it’s an impressive achievement. While other entries in the crafting-survival genre have allowed players to destroy a world’s elements - houses, cars, and so on - and repurpose them into resources, very few of those elements start out as something the player might feel bad about tearing down. WTF The ancient ancestors left behind… sokoban puzzles?Īs gimmicks go, DYSMANTLE’s is well worth naming the game after it. LOW A few quests have confusingly-worded instructions. HIGH Getting a weapon strong enough to one-shot the skinless hunters.

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