Abiotic Factor
Abiotic Factor is exactly what you'd expect if you made Half Life 1 a survival crafting game. Visually it looks incredibly similar, there are references to it all over the place, and it's set in a similar kind of location (a secret underground bunker full of scientists and escaped alients). It's functionally a survival crafting base building game where you go and scavenge materials, create workstations, fill your meters and survive - in a bases full of escaped aliens. Although it feels clunky to start with, it gets more intuitive pretty quickly and is very well designed.
Pros
- The atmosphere is excellent. I found myself creeping around totally absorbed in the deserted offices
- Wide variety of materials and crafting stations
- Rewarding exploration with lots of secret passages to find, and well designed shortcuts
- Loads of different skills to train
- If you sit down on an office chair, you can roll around on it :D
- You can change all the settings of how the world works, making it super accessible for anyone who wants more or less grind or difficulty. For example, I turned the backpack slots to max, because I hate limited inventory space.
Cons
- Voice acting isn't great
- The game, as a whole, feels a bit clunky. I think it's deliberate, but it definitely plays a little like a 90s game