NEO Scavenger
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and…
NEO Scavenger is an indie developed by Blue Bottle Games, released 15 December 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What NEO Scavenger is
NEO Scavenger is an indie game developed by Blue Bottle Games and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Flixel.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NEO Scavenger is a survival role-playing video game developed by Blue Bottle Games. The studio is led by Daniel Fedor, a former BioWare employee. In the game, the player controls a character that awakes in a cryonics laboratory in a ruined, post-apocalyptic world. The immediate objective of the game is to keep the character alive by finding food, clothing, and shelter, and caring for any illnesses that may befall him. Ruined towns can be scavenged for supplies, but doing so may draw the attention of nearby looters and raiders. Fighting for survival includes fending off attackers, and other beasts that may be hiding in the wastes. The developer had initially released a free browser-based…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
NEO Scavenger holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 45% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks, 1 GB RAM and 128MB of graphics memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
NEO Scavenger launched on 15 December 2014, within three weeks of Tales from the Borderlands, The Talos Principle, Resident Evil and Elite: Dangerous. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tales from the Borderlands, The Talos Principle, Resident Evil, Elite: Dangerous.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NEO Scavenger yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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