Dysmantle fast travel upgrade#

It can be argued there’s a lot of grind involved in the mechanics, but there’s so many things you can do and craft and the game always gives you something new to work towards. That can be stopped, but later in the game. Whenever you rest, it also respawns all the enemies. A fast travel system exists where you can travel between radio towers you find. The game uses campfires that you can find and use as resting points where you can store all collected materials and do a lot of different things, depending on what you have unlocked. In-game map is excellent, very detailed and easy to read and orient yourself.

Points of interest, creatures, kills, medals, recipes, amount of materials you have, everything is diligently tracked and you can always look it up. The game even keeps track of absolutely everything. There’s also light RPG mechanics, stats for items, tools you craft (crowbar, machete…), your own stats, trinkets, inventory, outfits and small quests. Everything you do increases your experience and when you get a level you can pick a new skill. You just re-spawn at the last campfire and can go pick up your fresh corpse with all the stuff you had on you when you died. You can replenish your health with bandages or food you can cook and the first time you eat a new recipe your health is permanently increased. It is sort of a light survival game, but there are no needs, you only have a health bar. Combat is a simple swing dodge mechanic, but it’s very smooth and responsive and you do need to be careful to not get overwhelmed because enemies do hit hard. There’s enough enemy variety and each part of the map gets something new. Hey, you need their skins and meat for survival, don’t judge.

In the process of smashing with glee, collecting and building stuff, you’ll get to whack some enemies and some wildlife.

Dysmantle fast travel upgrade#

More importantly, populated by sooooo many things for you to smash, destroy and pulverize into pieces, collect what remains and then use those remains to craft or upgrade one of the bajillion things available to you. You start the game emerging from an underground shelter after who knows how many years of isolation into a world completely abandoned and populated by things that want to eat your face off. Good thing you can turn them off, but I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow if they somehow magically poofed out of the game. Monsters are creepy, menacing and some of them sound downright chilling and the ambience feels lonely despite cutesy visuals. There are no dark, creepy corners, black shadows and streaks of light through dirty windows, but the world still looks abandoned, desolate and taken over by nature. I’ll just go whack that toaster, pull out all the electronics and then go plant me some corn.” “Yeah, everything went down the toilet, but I’m good. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but they give those laid back, pleasant apocalypse feels. Visuals are bright, colorful and remind me of Torchlight. The developers really seem to know where they want to take the game and what that path will be. It’s always a breath of fresh air to see a well made game that shows you what the complete product might actually feel and look like instead of throwing crumbs your way for months on end. Main menu text says it’s in alpha stage and the amount of content and stuff to do is huge. Dysmantle is a really slick, polished and competent Early Access game with an abundance of content even at this early stage.