"The desert is lonely and straight, and the long river is full of sunsets!" This is the first feeling of seeing the game Tribe and Machete.
As a masterpiece of domestic independent games, "Tribe and Machete" has been successfully launched after three years of polishing since it was first released in 2018, and has received more than 80% praise. The game's diversity and rich framework give players confidence in the game's future.
Background: A story in the desert
"Tribes and Machetes" presents a turbulent world after the collapse of the "Old Dynasty" in the vast desert. In this world, there are beautiful women from the western region, there are also warriors from the far east, wizards, swordsmen, robber beasts, and merchant travelers; players have to face various difficulties in the game, complete various challenges, so as to gradually enhance their own strength, participate in this strifeed country, and even rewrite the fate of this desert by hand.
Painting style: Standing painting is deeply popular
The screen style of the whole game is simple and not simple, the simple outline will be the Western style to show vividly, the whole picture style is also full of strong national flavor, the most eye-catching or the game character standing painting, can be described by the word "invincible", I believe that no one has seen it without heartbeat.
Soundtrack: Western style is revealed
The soundtrack of this game is also a major feature, each different scene has a different sound effect, which perfectly fits the map screen, and there is a unique huqin playing in the western region, just listening to the sound is like being in the western desert. Moreover, the ambient sound effects are also quite delicate, and the sound effects in different environments such as wind, thunder, rain, and snow have their own advantages, and they also shape different moods such as fear, cheerfulness, and melancholy through the soundtrack, and the player is substituted into it in an instant.
Gameplay: Rich game content, never get tired of playing
The game contains a wealth of elements, with an open-world gameplay where every choice the player makes will affect the direction of the game, and you can experience a free sandbox mode after completing the story mode.
There are currently 10 characters to choose from in the game, each with a unique background, skills, talents and stories, etc., and will encounter different challenges due to different characters in the course of the game.
As an independent game that develops the world gameplay, the significance of the existence of the story mode is only to guide the player forward, but also to meet the needs of the plot party, but in the actual game process, the game plot can be completely ignored. The main plot tells the story of the desert for the player, and the side quest tells the player the customs and customs of the desert, so the non-directional plot setting creates a huge free space for the player.
In this desert, you may be running around because of a girl's wishes, or you may try your best to save a villager. In the process, we will encounter many uncertain things, just like our lives are full of unknowns, and every time we choose, we will see different results. This setting makes the world of Tribes and Machetes more realistic, deeply rooted in people's hearts, and makes the game more fulfilling.
At the same time, "Tribe and Machete" also integrates RPG, cultivation, strategy and other gameplay, but the core gameplay can be divided into two lines, one line is to upgrade the level, upgrade skills, strengthen their own strength, and the other line is to learn talents to unlock different classes. However, subdivided, this character cultivation system is very large, there are six different directions of talent alone, and each direction has multiple branches, up to dozens of talent points, and each way of adding points has a certain impact on the direction of the game.
The addition of talent and skill directly affects the combat style of the game characters. The battle system of "Tribe and Machete" is deceptively simple, using a third perspective to look down on the screen, adding RTS + RPG battle mode, the overall operation is also very simple, only need to cast skills through the mouse and keyboard. However, the difficulty of this system is in the combination of character attributes and skill points, reasonable additional points can maximize the strength of the character, and the strategy is greater than the operation, which is a more brain-burning system.
In order to greatly increase the strength of the team and maximize the dominance attributes, players can increase the strength of the team by recruiting soldiers, and cultivate higher-level classes to help players expand their territory and rectify this turbulent desert. The class cultivation gameplay greatly increases the playability of the game, and also allows players to feel the sense of accomplishment of leading the team around as a "general".
All in all, the gameplay of "Tribe and Machete" is too rich, and if you want to go into detail, it may be difficult to repeat tens of thousands of words.
Free mod: The finishing touch
It is worth mentioning that Tribe and Machete also supports the Steam Workshop, which greatly increases the playability of this game. When players are not satisfied with the gameplay of the game itself, they can download the mods of interest to experience, making a game have thousands of possibilities. It has been possible to predict that in the future, this will likely become the game with the most mod types in domestic games.
Because of its support for mod expansion, Tribe & Machete has garnered hundreds of homemade mods. Players transform their love of the game into creativity, which is the key to the long-term development of a game, and it has become the finishing touch of "Tribe and Machete".
Summary: The future can be expected
"Tribe and Machete" can be called the highlight of domestic independent games in recent years, rich game plot coupled with a high degree of freedom of gameplay, and then integrated into strategy, management, cultivation and other diverse gameplay, enriching the game content while allowing players to play for a long time. We have reason to believe that the potential of this game is infinite, and it also makes us full of expectations and confidence in domestic independent games.