Saturday Casual Gaming 202

In this, the second Saturday of a New Year, I bring you:

Castaway

This game is a collaboration between Armor Games and Likwid Games, and it's the start of a whole series of Castaway games.

You play an unnamed protagonist who wakes up with no memories. After naming yourself, you're given a brief tutorial where you pick up a stick and defend a little monster that looks like a little bat-winged Mike Wazowski, which joins you as a namable pet. The rest of the game consists of you getting weapons & armor, magic shards, new monster pets, and quests. Many of these come from the Village you go to early on. There's a mage guild, a village leader, an upside-down boat for an inn, a shop for you, a shop for your pet, and a place to raise new pets from Monster Eggs.

And it's got such nice music and visuals, too!

You'll be fighting and gathering a lot in this game - which isn't as much of a chore as you'd expect because combat is largely automatic once you click on an enemy. You have special attacks with a recharge that you learn through quests, magic (also learned through quests) that take up elemental items you sometimes loot from enemies, and your pet, which can be set to different priorities (attack, defend, etc), but largely, you're just going to click and wait for the loot to drop. It's almost relaxing, to be honest.

And the maps are kinda interesting with their isometric view, multiple levels of map, and the minimap actually telling you where your enemies are hiding!

I still haven't finished either Castaway or its direct sequel, but I really enjoy playing both. I'm just not that good at item & action management, and even the handy health regeneration isn't all that helpful when you're surrounded by enemies who automatically run you down and attack you or who can poison you much worse than your regen can handle.

All in all, Castaway is a great little game with some fun quests and great art & music. I strongly suggest giving it a whirl!

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