Mortal Engines-style game Last Oasis aims to solve the survival genre's problems
Remember the Mortal Engines film that came out a few years ago? Me neither, but something that could scratch that itch for massive roving machines is on its way, as Last Oasis is heading into early access this week - and I've had an early look via an online press demo.
First announced as part of the PC Gaming Show last year, Last Oasis is a post-apocalyptic MMO survival game with an enticing hook: you're a nomad in a vast desert which can be traversed with rickety wooden walkers, sent out by society to collect resources and ensure humanity's survival. The lore behind this explains that Earth's rotation has stopped, meaning the planet is split into fiery desert and extreme cold, with a small sliver of hospitable land in the middle. As the sun moves, the nomads must also travel to avoid the burning rays. It's a clever backstory, but is it enough to separate it from the crowd of other survival MMOs?
During the early stages, Last Oasis shares many of the mechanics you'd expect to see in survival games like Rust: harvesting wood, crafting better tools, and a tech tree that can be expanded with technology gathered from old wrecks and settlements. While ranged combat is an option on the walkers, we were also shown hand-to-hand melee, which aims to provide more depth than other survival games by tracking whether players click on the right or left-hand side of the screen, with melee hits corresponding to these in-game. As the same mechanic works for blocking, it means there's some level of reflexive skill rather than just spamming - and a stamina bar means you'll have to deploy your hits carefully.
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