While your bunker may never be Architectural Digest-worthy, depending on your ingenuity as a player, it can become quite the masterpiece. You’ll need wood, metal, electronics, plastics, and more, so you’re always looking for ways to scrounge the necessary bits to aid in your efforts to build the perfect bunker. The types of resources you’ll need are wide-ranging and varied, which is nice. However, each new level of the mine requires a pass, and you can only acquire a pass by, you guessed it, doing favors for key characters. Thus, you go explore a forest where you barter with hunters and eventually can even find a mine. Getting out of your neighborhood is key because as you might imagine, suburbia isn’t really rife with useful materials. As you do these errands, which show up as quests, you can unlock more people in different areas as you expand your network. Prepper.Īs it happens, most people don’t like the government any more than you do, but they’re unwilling to trust you until you do little errands for them to build that trust. The other way you acquire resources and goods is by working a network of similarly-minded malcontents that you develop as you go through the game, and this aspect is quite possibly the most fun I had while playing Mr. For example, you can dismantle pieces of furniture in your home to generate needed resources, but you must replace the dismantled pieces with something else before the next inspection. You must construct your bunker using resources you have at hand and can source elsewhere, so long as you remain compliant above-ground. Now, that’s out of the way, let’s talk gameplay. There’s also an immense amount of resource grinding, so you definitely should take that into consideration before deciding to play. The sound isn’t much to write home about, and there are places in which the game mechanics can become unwieldy. The grainy images give a certain retro, off-the-grid kind of ambience. The graphics are somewhat lackluster, but frankly, that almost adds to the game’s charm.
It is repetitive and uninspired, but don’t let that dissuade you from trying this game. First, there is combat, and gentle readers, it is irredeemably awful. Let’s start with the bad things about this game.
Suspicious behavior means more inspections which means more opportunities for discovery. You see, in this authoritarian hellscape, everything you have is rationed out, from the types of furniture to the number of cans in your pantry to the amount of electricity you consume, and any deviation from the allotment is suspicious and therefore dangerous to your plans. Why must your home be so meticulously maintained? It’s not just a question of making certain no one suspects your grand designs because the G-men frequently inspect your home to determine whether you’re in compliance. No, you have Plans with a capital P, and these plans involve building a bunker below your meticulously maintained home and eventually a rocket that will help you escape. You play a gentleman who lives in a country whose slide into an authoritarian dictatorship has been rapid but unsurprising, but you have decided that fate is not for you. Prepper when it was still, well, prepping to be a good game.
Prepper last year when the game was still in beta, and our reviewer was excited about how it was going. If you aren’t a member of the tinfoil hat crowd, give the game a look because it’s surprisingly engaging.Įditor’s Note: GiN previewed Mr. Prepper is probably going to be less fun and more like a guide for you. Have you ever had the feeling that society was crumbling around you? Do you think the G-Men are watching you? Do you fear the inevitable slide of your home country into an authoritarian hellscape? Well, then, Mr.
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