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The Kindred is a Steam Early Access game. This review pertains to version 0.3.35, which is the latest release as I write (Feb. 2016). Intro I can describe The Kindred as only a mashup between Minecraft (the blocky look, mining and crafting), and something like Settlers (looking after your townsfolk). The idea behind it is that you take your people (Kin) and keep them fed, watered, and working. Tutorial The game has a brief tutorial mode that walks you through the basics of mining, crafting and building. After that you’re on your own to look after your own group of Kin.
The Kindred est un jeu « Early Access » (que vous pouvez obtenir avant que son développement ne soit terminé) disponible sur Steam. Dans cette critique, je parle de la version 0.3.35, la plus récente au moment où j'écris ces lignes en février 2016.
Intro
À mon avis, The Kindred est en fait un mashup entre Minecraft (apparence un peu pixelisée, l'activité minière et celle plus artisanale) et quelque chose comme Settlers (ou vous prenez soin de vos villageois). L'idée, c'est que vous obtenez vos gens (Kin, ou vos proches) et leur donne à manger et à boire en les faisant travailler.
Tutoriel
Le jeu comporte un court mode tutoriel qui vous présente les bases de l'activité minière, de l'artisanat et de la construction. Après cela, vous êtes seul à vous occuper de votre groupe de proches.
Playing You start the game with about half a dozen Kin and have to start by chopping down some trees, building some beds, till the soil for planting crops, and various other crafting things. Along the bottom of the screen is your menu with their relevant keyboard shortcuts. For example: clicking ‘Mine’ lets you choose blocks to dig up. An icon showing what that block is is shown at the bottom right of the screen. You can click ‘cancel’ (in the mine menu) to choose blocks to ignore and not dig. Clicking Back (or using right-click on the mouse) will take you back one menu item. Till is the same idea, but you remove the grass to expose dirt for planting seeds. Clicking ‘Housing’ will grant you access to beds, planks, wood, windows, and the like, but these have to be crafted first. The one downside of the crafting is that it doesn’t seem to show what you need to make an item. Another downside is that you have to go through the crafting table menus to find the item to craft, then through the normal menu to find the same item now available (since you just crafted it). In other areas though, it is helpful. For example: if you try and milk an animal (with no bucket available), it will say it can’t be done. Similar thing for crops that are not ready for harvesting.
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Crafting also includes electricity. You have to craft up a wind turbine to generate electricity to have lighting. You don’t get stick and coal torches in The Kindred.
Moving the camera is done using WASD while rotating, tilting and zooming is done using YU,GH, and VB.
While doing all that mining and crafting, you still have to look after your Kin and provide them with beds and food. At the top left of the screen is a list of your nutritional value requirements (per day) and available in storage. Also the Kin alive (six to start with), and the amount of electricity you’re generating, storing and require. Clicking a Kin will give you info on the person, such as name, age, strength, status, gender, also fatigue and hunger percentage.
For such a simple looking game, there’s a lot to juggle. Which is good, as there’s always something to do.
Look
The look of the game is very like Minecraft but with what look like Lego minifigs. There is a day and night cycle, but no enemies are in The Kindred. This is more about building a little town, looking after your people, and managing resources.
The developer is also very active, posting updates almost daily, and answering questions in the Steam discussion forum.
Even for early access, it’s very polished with regards to graphics and the look and feel of the menus. A bit more documentation (or recipes) wouldn’t go amiss, but this is definitely a great start.
Steam link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/373410/
Minimum requirements: Dual Core 2GHz 2GB RAM 512MB VRAM and GPU with passmark of 2000 Resolution of 1280×720 (or better) 400MB storage space Sound card
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