Burden

[h1]Introduction[/h1] Burden is a survival-crafting game from indie developers, Black Book Development. In Burden you play a minimally realised protagonist in a minimally realised post-apocalyptic world. You've somehow managed to find yourself at only source of fresh water in the desert that surrounds you -- a well -- and it's your goal to build up a base around it and survive. I don't know if there's any end-game content or if the game continues on in the same way that it begins. At least initially, anyway, the game provides no background or motivation for anything that you do beyond surviving, but if what I've seen so far is indicative of life in the world of Burden, I'm afraid I have to say that I don't see much point in the struggle. You'd be better off dead. [h1]Presentation[/h1] Burden's developers seem to be going for a desolate-looking post-apocalyptic setting and they've achieved that in two ways: the world is big, but almost entirely empty; and the view distance is very short, with your vision blocked after only a few metres by thick dust churned up by the winds of the endless storm that blows across the world. At first it's sort-of interesting, such a bleak view of t…

Don't buy this game unless it's heavily discounted...and even then I'm still not sure. Great concept but needs polished and a little buggy.

Edited: When I woke up in the desert, surrounded by a storm, I found a man lying on the ground...dead. It appears that he attempted to build a shelter in this eye of the storm and failed. I purposed his gear to live for a day...then, tomorrow came...and with it...death. From settlers, traders, killers to thieves, there is no room for error. Get it right, and die trying. Venture into the storm, with limited visibility, and find remnants of lost peoples. Listen to your radio for clues about mysterious treasure and deadly traps. Make it to the Portal Chamber where you can challenge your will and capability to survive. Out here, you meet death. Just be sure it happens to someone else. There are few places that compare with the Burden of living.

This game is a big let down. The premise is great but it fails when you play. Just walk trying to find things, face many bad guys at random intervals. You can get wiped out by the first encounter so get used to restarting.

I have had this game a long time and made several valiant runs at playing it. For me its not fun, its no engaging, many of the interactions with NPCs make no sense like some times they will stand and ignore you with a gun in hand, then a few minutes later they attack like theirs no tomorrow. Kudos on the environment but the whole of the game play needs reinvented in my opinion.

The game is not intuitive, has no guidance/tutorial on how to play, and requires resources that are so far away from camp that survival is difficult to impossible. The water and food drains quickly and the enemies are many with far advanced weapons than the starting character is able to defend against. So far it has been a total waste of money with no guidance published yet on the internet. There is also no option to try an easier setting until you learn how to play. I just keep dying in the first hour of play every time with no ability to figure out how to proceed. Returning this one.