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Play OverviewPlay Overview

The Flame In The Flood (2016) is a traversal survival game where you steer a raft down a raging river in the ruins of America. You avoid obstacles in the river and go ashore to gather the items you need while risking attacks by wolves. It stands out for the end-of-the-world scarcity that forces you to risk wild animals to keep your resources stocked.

You play as a lone traveller with your dog in a post-apocalyptic America. Setting out to find the source of a radio signal, you use a makeshift raft to travel down a huge river. You need to go ashore to gather resources to repair your raft. Along the way, you need to eke out provisions to stay healthy and construct weapons to defend yourself against the wolves that prowl the wilderness.

Play involves guiding your raft down the river, dodging the rocks and obstacles that block your way. It's tricky to control at first, but you gradually get a feel for how to avoid drowning. You need to go ashore to gather resources to heal and upgrade and repair your boat, but every time you risk being killed by the dangers that prowl the wilderness. You can fight them with your weapons, but it's always a careful balance of choosing when to go ashore and when to try and press on. If you die, you start again much further up the river without the resources you had.

The result is a game that creates a dual challenge of raft navigation and risk management where every decision could be the difference between survival and death. Gradually getting further down the river and closer to your goal is good fun, and a careful weighing of the risks and benefits of going ashore is greatly rewarded.

Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Flame In The Flood 2 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 2 weeks ago.
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Play StylePlay Style

This is an Adventure and Traversal game with Fighting, Shooting and Simulation elements. This is a single-player game.

 
You can play this game in the following styles:

DurationDuration

Play Time: This game will take between 9 and a half hours and 15 hours to complete. Depending on how often you fail, beating the story can take significantly different lengths of time due to the roguelike nature of the game. Once you've beaten the campaign, the Endless mode enables you to continue playing for many hours more as you see how far downriver you can get.

Age RatingsAge Ratings

Content Rating

Rated PEGI 16 for Strong Violence. Violence consists in the form of traps you build in order to hunt animals for food or pelts. Some of these traps involve spikes which impale the animal, leaving a corpse lying in a puddle of blood on the ground. While not overly graphic the building of the traps and responses of the animals caught in them add a sense of realism to the violence which directly contributes to the rating.

Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB TEEN for Violence and Blood.

Skill Level

10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. Navigating around hazards in the river can be difficult, and you also need to be able to weigh the risks of landing at each location to gather supplies. Players also need to be able to cope with dying and losing a lot of progress.

CostsCosts

The Flame In The Flood usually costs £11.99 to £15.99.
 

The Flame in the Flood

XBox Store Xbox One £15.99
Switch Store Switch £14.99
Steam Store PC £14.99
Steam Store Mac £14.99
PlayStation Store PS4 £11.99
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 24/02/2016, updated in 2017

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Traversal (Fighting, Shooting and Simulation)

Accessibility: 13 features

Components: Cartoon and Day and Night

Developer: Molasses Flood (@MolassesFlood)


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