I’ve fond reminiscences from childhood of endlessly enjoying a method buying and selling recreation for the Apple 2 referred to as Taipan! (I’m not shouting at you, the sport identify included an exclamation level.) Based on the novel by James Clavell of Shōgun fame, I’d spend hours in Taipan! crusing backwards and forwards between ports, shopping for objects like silk and weapons and opium as cheaply as attainable after which promoting them at their costliest. You can truly play Taipan! in your browser if you wish to test it out your self.
Strategy RPG Dustland Delivery jogs my memory of Taipan! solely as a substitute of being set in China within the 1800s it takes place in a Mad Max-style wasteland of a post-apocalyptic future. You’ve bought an enormous truck to improve and keep, commerce routes to arrange between distant outposts, random encounters to take care of on the highway, and better of all, a crew of misfits to handle—which can embrace irradiated mutants, the undead, and even a clown. Take a glance:
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There’s additionally fishing, should you’re a kind of individuals who is delighted every time a recreation has fishing. (I’m a kind of folks.)
Driving provides from metropolis to metropolis to earn a fortune in scrap by shopping for low and promoting excessive is not the one factor you do in Dustland Delivery. You truly get to discovered and construct your personal metropolis within the wasteland with the assistance of the characters you recruit. As you would possibly anticipate in an apocalyptic panorama, you will additionally run into enemies: on this case, swarms of contaminated, armored pirates, and extra. I have never performed an entire lot but, however thus far I’m digging the wasteland vibes and loving my cell base.
As a bit extra enticement, Dustland Delivery entered early entry again in July nevertheless it’s simply hit 1.0 and is now 20% off on Steam, that means you’ll be able to construct your wasteland commerce empire for below $7 for the subsequent week.
