e-River Cabin Journal
Wilderness Journal Games · 2016 · Indie, Survival, Crafting, Strategy, Choose Your Own Adventure
PC
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About e-River Cabin Journal
This is a genuinely unique ‘diary driven’ strategy survival game, hoping to follow in the footsteps of such classics as NeoScavenger, TLD & Unreal World.
It's a true 'Indie' title on a limited budget, from a husband and wife team.
Your story begins deep within the Alaskan Wilderness, where you must fight for your survival & carve out a new life, across the ever changing seasons.
Daily existence will be a struggle, battling against starvation, animal attacks, catastrophic injuries & your own inexperience & ineptitude - will you thrive or even survive over a full 12mths (+) of gameplay?
NB: e-River Cabin Journal is designed to be played a little each day, taking place over REAL hours, days, months and seasons. We have however now added a NEW 'Fast Forward' option for players wanting more flexibility over how they play and incorporate into their spare time. This feature allows players to instantly complete up to 12 tasks each day.
Simulating Homesteading and Survival in your own log cabin deep in the Alaskan wilderness. You choose a location in the Alaskan wilderness to build your cabin... The cabin is built and kitted out with much of the equipment you need to survive The trick is to create a sustainable routine to keep yourself alive from thereon. You choose tasks to undertake, from Gold panning, Fishing and Hunting to tree felling, cooking and foraging. Each task takes a 'real' (and realistic) amount of time to complete, On completion the outcome is relayed in a narrative style in your Cabin 'task journal',Each new day a 'diary journal' is created that describes additional events that may have befallen you since the previous day.
The drawing of 'Fate Cards' in order to achieve set objectives risks further positive or negative incidents to push players beyond pure survival and out of their comfort zone as they become more adept within the game...
The game is as much thinking about, and discussing with others, what you 'plan' to do as it is about the actual 'doing'. It's true strategy and the game unfolds over a full years experience as opposed to a few hours of 'gaming'. You need to blend the game into your real life, because tasks take real periods of time to complete, then it's about patience and planning,reading about what happened after the event, reflecting on that and making your next decision. It's a kind of 'second life' in Alaska, if you will...
Goldpanning
Hunting (shotgun and Rifle)
Fishing (Ice Fishing, Lure Fishing and Fly Fishing)
Trapping (Fish Trap and Small Game)
Crafting
Building
In depth first aid
Repair and Service vehicles
Trading
Trade items and help with NPC players and real players (via a code system - no need to be online)
The Map, Weather and Main animal groups plus gold locations are persistent for all players (using algorithms)
Forest Fires, Flooding and Avalanche !
A 'Fear' system that sees you benefit just from chatting to NPCs and even from a hot drink now and then :)
A 'Karma' system that alters how people treat you based on how you treat others and how you act...
Add an additional 'Hobby Room' to your cabin to specialize
Add to your cabin to improve your self sufficiency:
Were looking for an active community to drive the direction of any free updates and to help development of the game.
It's a true 'Indie' title on a limited budget, from a husband and wife team.
Your story begins deep within the Alaskan Wilderness, where you must fight for your survival & carve out a new life, across the ever changing seasons.
Daily existence will be a struggle, battling against starvation, animal attacks, catastrophic injuries & your own inexperience & ineptitude - will you thrive or even survive over a full 12mths (+) of gameplay?
E River Cabin Journal, Write Your story.....
NB: e-River Cabin Journal is designed to be played a little each day, taking place over REAL hours, days, months and seasons. We have however now added a NEW 'Fast Forward' option for players wanting more flexibility over how they play and incorporate into their spare time. This feature allows players to instantly complete up to 12 tasks each day.
Simulating Homesteading and Survival in your own log cabin deep in the Alaskan wilderness. You choose a location in the Alaskan wilderness to build your cabin... The cabin is built and kitted out with much of the equipment you need to survive The trick is to create a sustainable routine to keep yourself alive from thereon. You choose tasks to undertake, from Gold panning, Fishing and Hunting to tree felling, cooking and foraging. Each task takes a 'real' (and realistic) amount of time to complete, On completion the outcome is relayed in a narrative style in your Cabin 'task journal',Each new day a 'diary journal' is created that describes additional events that may have befallen you since the previous day.
The drawing of 'Fate Cards' in order to achieve set objectives risks further positive or negative incidents to push players beyond pure survival and out of their comfort zone as they become more adept within the game...
The game is as much thinking about, and discussing with others, what you 'plan' to do as it is about the actual 'doing'. It's true strategy and the game unfolds over a full years experience as opposed to a few hours of 'gaming'. You need to blend the game into your real life, because tasks take real periods of time to complete, then it's about patience and planning,reading about what happened after the event, reflecting on that and making your next decision. It's a kind of 'second life' in Alaska, if you will...
Goldpanning
Hunting (shotgun and Rifle)
Fishing (Ice Fishing, Lure Fishing and Fly Fishing)
Trapping (Fish Trap and Small Game)
Crafting
Building
In depth first aid
Repair and Service vehicles
Trading
Trade items and help with NPC players and real players (via a code system - no need to be online)
The Map, Weather and Main animal groups plus gold locations are persistent for all players (using algorithms)
Forest Fires, Flooding and Avalanche !
A 'Fear' system that sees you benefit just from chatting to NPCs and even from a hot drink now and then :)
A 'Karma' system that alters how people treat you based on how you treat others and how you act...
Add an additional 'Hobby Room' to your cabin to specialize
- Smoke House (Lets you make Jerky and Smoked Fish)
- Geology Room (Lets you polish Jade and Garnet to increase it's value)
- Gun Room (Allows you to make your own ammunition)
- Rod Room (Allows you to make your own lures and Flies, also to smoke fish)
- Potting Shed (Gives you seeds to plant, herbs to eat and if you have a garden a beehive for Honey!)
- Hot Tub (Linked to the Cabin stove, helps with Hypothermia and Heat Exhaustion plus prevents infection)
- Tanning Room (Lets you preserve and sell fur from game and wolves shot)
- Beer Still (Allows you to brew beer...Just don't let the Park Rangers find out!)
Add to your cabin to improve your self sufficiency:
- Radio Mast
- Solar Panels
- Food Cellar / Canning
- Garden / Duck Pond
- Wind Turbine
- Chinking
Depending On Where You Build Your Cabin...
- Post from home (Sometimes a useful package or info about gold 'hotspots', sometimes a stress relieving letter...)
- A rail road (build close to the lines and flag down a train as it passes for a gift or a chat from the driver!)
- A Bush Doctors plane (If you have built under the flight path...signal them for useful health care!)
Were looking for an active community to drive the direction of any free updates and to help development of the game.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
TL/DR: If you want a realistic, or even plausible game, this is definitely not it. You'll be attacked by wild bears and wolves almost every time you're going to chop some firewood, that is of course if you manage to avoid hitting yourself in the knee with your axe which happens like 50% of the time. Seriously, this game is balanced so poorly it's ridiculous. You're either a complete moron who cannot use a knife/axe without cutting himself, or face murderous animals which hide around every corner. Summary: I really wanted to love this game. It has many great features and is quite possibly the deepest survival game there is, but the balance is simply ridiculous. Out of around 10 attempts to chop firewood, in five of them my character managed to wound himself seriously, and in four he was attacked by bears or wolves, only ONE attempt to simply chop wood was successful. My character looks like a complete idiot, with an epicly bad luck - being attacked by wild animals every day, when in reality bears only kill around THREE people a year, in the US and Canada combined. Unless the devs can address this, and they haven't in the past two years, this game is simply unplayable. I really w…10 found this helpful
This looks a lot like old times, playing games without knowledge and finding out what happens when I click there and so on. Luckily nowadays there is something like "google" an on line guides. I really like the indepth of the game, and finding out things. Working your way around. If you like fast paced shooters where all looks the same whether sutuated in wwII or alien surroundings, gameplay is boring and always the same. This game is refreshing, and learns you to take things slow. I start to learn to find my way now, and really like it.4 found this helpful
Although a unique concept of using real time to complete tasks it is not very practical to me and perhaps most gamers. The sound effects are too loud and no control is available. The icons are clunky. What little directions that are given are useless given the starting conditions. A person goes out to cut a tree and not only does not complete the task after 30 real life minutes but comes back wounded? What kind of person is so inept? I tried many times and many things but I am not willing to beat my head against this game. I will be deleting it from my PC.3 found this helpful
Jaký je život v aljašské divočině? Jak dlouho byste dokázali přežít? Vyzkoušejte si to v v reálném čase a prověřte své strategické schopnosti. V e-River Cabin Journal okusíte život v drsných podmínkách Aljašky. Obzvlášť zimy tu bývají kruté a nebezpečí (třeba v podobě divoké zvěře) na vás číhá na každém neopatrném kroku. Dokážete se o sebe postarat? Musíte ubránit sebe i obydlí, sehnat jídlo, vystačit se zásobami nebo chodit pro dříví, abyste v chatě udrželi teplo. A to není všechno. Děj je v angličtině, popisován je prostřednictvím deníku (tzv. “Diary Driven PC Game”), který píše vaše herní postava a ovládá se pomocí myši. Na začátku hry vyberete jednu z postav, obtížnost hry a místo, kde postavíte dřevěnou chatu. Polohu volíte tak, aby byla dobře dostupná civilizaci, a startovní sadu vybíráte s věcmi, které myslíte, že hůře obstaráte. Děj začíná ve stejné datum, jako je právě v reálném světe a prostředí hry se přizpůsobí aktuálnímu ročnímu období. http://vlcata.sk/e-river-cabin-journal/2 found this helpful
Frustrating but fun game. The number of bear attacks here is ridiculous. If you are also gonna buy and play this game now, be warned, because the game is sync to real life time, and it's almost winter, even right now in November it's always around -10C degrees everyday. Will still recommend it though, because there is nothing like an immersive experience like this out there.2 found this helpful
never played a game that has fast forward but you can only use it if you have fast forward credits. complete waste of time and money. don't waste yours like i did mine lol1 found this helpful
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