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Play Overview
Block Rancher is an ironic adventure game where you collect natural resources to create trinkets sold by a massive corporation. You harvest creatures and plant life to create throwaway products to fulfil your employer's corporate appetites. Along with the capitalism critique it stands out for how you make friends with local creatures, so they jump on your back to lend you their extraordinary abilities.
You play a lowly employee of a huge company and must create worthless trinkets to be sold and build your standing within the company to improve your life. Play involves exploring the world and collecting plants and animals you use to create and deliver products. All the living creatures you encounter on have complex behaviours, interactions and sensitivities; make friends or exploit their properties to boost your deliveries and fast-track your career.
The creatures each have different behaviours and sensitivities, and you must figure out the best approach to collecting each species. When you die, you return to the central worker hub where you can use the resources you've collected to craft new, stronger gear, which lets you explore further and more easily. Gradually, you're able to take on more challenging areas and creatures to collect more valuable resources, until eventually, your bosses deem you ready for a promotion off the planet.
The result is a game that combines Viva Pinata creature care, with Metroid's ability-focused exploration. It's all wrapped up in a tongue-in-cheek parody of corporate culture and environmental destruction within an engaging cycle of adventuring and upgrading your equipment. Getting stronger and more capable, while fun and rewarding, highlights the lengths we go to to better our own lives.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Block Rancher a year ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
You play a lowly employee of a huge company and must create worthless trinkets to be sold and build your standing within the company to improve your life. Play involves exploring the world and collecting plants and animals you use to create and deliver products. All the living creatures you encounter on have complex behaviours, interactions and sensitivities; make friends or exploit their properties to boost your deliveries and fast-track your career.
The creatures each have different behaviours and sensitivities, and you must figure out the best approach to collecting each species. When you die, you return to the central worker hub where you can use the resources you've collected to craft new, stronger gear, which lets you explore further and more easily. Gradually, you're able to take on more challenging areas and creatures to collect more valuable resources, until eventually, your bosses deem you ready for a promotion off the planet.
The result is a game that combines Viva Pinata creature care, with Metroid's ability-focused exploration. It's all wrapped up in a tongue-in-cheek parody of corporate culture and environmental destruction within an engaging cycle of adventuring and upgrading your equipment. Getting stronger and more capable, while fun and rewarding, highlights the lengths we go to to better our own lives.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Block Rancher a year ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure, Collecting and Traversal game with Fighting and Simulation elements. This is a single-player game.
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Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
9+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. You need to consider how best to harvest and find the elements you require. There's some puzzle-solving aspect to this, but resilience and perseverance will enable even younger players to progress.
Costs
Block Rancher
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Game Details
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Collecting, Traversal (Fighting and Simulation)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: Hand Circus (@HandCircus)
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