The WhatsNext verdict
For Fans of classic, unforgiving immersive sims and post-apocalyptic RPGs who relish high difficulty and tactical freedom.: It delivers authentic immersive sim depth in a hostile Mexican wasteland, offering remarkable freedom to solve quests through combat, dialogue, hacking, or bizarre abilities. Tradeoff: Extreme mechanical roughness, brutal lethality, and steep difficulty spikes make survival an uncompromising, frequently punishing trial.
What it does best
Immersive-sim freedom in a hostile world
Every resource and encounter matters
Your build genuinely changes who you are
What might put you off
Brutal difficulty and occasional unfairness
Severe low-budget jank
The setup
What you are walking into
Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. The story will take you from a banana plantation to dark toxic caverns, to the sprawling city of Pochutla, to the flooded coastline, to deadly demon-infested jungles, and more. There are 14 unique skills to upgrade with skill points, ranging from agility to firearms, hacking, hardware, voodoo, and more. Unlock up to 80 special abilities that allow you to do things such as throw your weapon, upgrade your guns, and even control the weather. Dangers include rival tribes fighting for fertile land, mutated ghouls that emerge from their caverns at night, vicious demons that hunger for your flesh, a flooded and irradiated coastline that eats away at civilization, disease, insanity, hunger, and more. You will die often, and you will like it. #indiegame, #fps, #rpg, #survivial, #horror, #mexico
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