Gold Road will begin rolling out for The Elder Scrolls Online in less than a month, first on PC and Mac. The ESO team has a new preview to prepare for the Chapter’s release, this time taking us into the West Weald.
27.04.2024 - 23:55 / rockpapershotgun.com
Steam is lousy with farming sims that will absolutely destroy your productivity by ensnaring you within a compulsive loop of reaping and sowing. Rusty's Retirement explicitly promises a less engrossing experience: it's a farming sim that "sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things."
Specifically, it's an "idle-farming simulator". You select crops, plop them down, and choose how to spend resources as you unlock new crops, process them into biofuel, and use the biofuel to power a growing army of robots who automatically carry out tasks around the farm.
Or, you ignore all that, and do some work for a while. Rusty's Retirement clamps to the bottom of your screen, just above the taskbar, and takes up about a third of your screen real estate. It's designed such that you can poke and prod at your farm and then return to writing that job spec for an editor-in-chief role at a video game website. If the farm becomes too demanding or distracting, you can also turn on Focus Mode, which slows down crop production to give you less to do.
I've been pairing work with ambient experiences for years. (As I write this post, I've got a livestream of a tornado chaser open in another tab.) I long for games that can deliver a similar level of distraction, tickling my brain between paragraphs, then swiftly turning me back to whatever it was I was supposed to be doing.
It's too early for me to know if Rusty's Retirement will offer me this, but I like the idea. It's out now on Steam. and it's £5.39/€6.29/$6.29.
Gold Road will begin rolling out for The Elder Scrolls Online in less than a month, first on PC and Mac. The ESO team has a new preview to prepare for the Chapter’s release, this time taking us into the West Weald.
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@FuriousMachine I agree, especially on the annoyance of poor checkpointing in combat encounters. Especially if there’s long cutscenes involved or long sections to get back to the encounter(s). Having 3 FromSoft games under my belt (and currently playing my fourth) as well as finishing Returnal (before the added save options and difficulty nerfing updates) has trained me to be less frustrated by the drag of having to repeat sections if I die before being victorious and reaching a save point. Still… it make it no less aggravating when those things happen. In the From games it’s all part of the intentional gameplay loop, and the game almost provokes and mocks the player with the idea of “You will die a lot and in the most unfair feeling ways possible.” Having just started Dark Souls 2, the introduction has this old hag giving you a little exposition as you start and she all but says that to you as she cackles away, clearly enjoying the thoughts of you pending misery.
Rusty’s Retirement is an idle farming simulator that does the work for you — while you work. The game, which was released on April 26 by Mister Morris Games, sits at the bottom of your computer screen and basically runs itself; simply plant some seeds and Rusty and a team of cute robot pals will get to work turning the crops into biofuel, which can be reinvested in your ever-expanding farm.
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@nessisonett well, i'd say theres a high chance that it could be worth more of your time than armageddon. of course its up to you though, i just wanted to let you know that there was another mk game before armageddon.
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