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You often find food and medkits at the stations, but if you’ve run out while travelling to a new destination, you can craft more while in transit.

There is a crafting element to the game as well, which you will need to utilize in order to make more medicine and ammunition. This is simply for those who love achievements, but it has no bearing on the actual content of the game. Furthermore, the more passengers you bring home safely, the more achievements you unlock. Each passenger you successfully bring back to a shelter will yield money and other necessary items. Once either meter reaches the bottom, times up and they die. Speaking of dying passengers, you need to pay attention to their health and hunger meters. The longer you take to get moving, the higher the odds someone will die. Ignore the train issues long enough and the whole thing just stops in its tracks. It’s not difficult, but if you’re tending to sick or dying passengers, you might not realize the train is about to go offline. Various components of the train start to break down in route, and you must act fast to counteract the faulty parts. While travelling, the train operator (you) must make sure the equipment doesn’t break down and the passengers (whom you rescue), don’t die in transport. On the one hand, you must operate the train as it goes from abandoned station to abandoned station. Whether it was manmade or extraterrestrial, that’s for you to decide.Īs stated above, there are two distinct aspects to this game. By the time the game ended, I wasn’t quite sure if this was the case. You’re led to believe it was an alien attack from countless light-years away using advanced tech to send the poison gas to Earth. It’s a great way to unveil how the world came to be, but I did at times find it slightly confusing and hard to piece together.Īfter beating the game in under four hours, I was still a little hazy on what exactly happened, what the Visitation was, and who or what was behind it. This combined with conversations with the living, help to paint a picture of everything that has, is, and will occur. Notes, text messages, letters, and books from those no longer alive attempt to fill you in on what exactly happened over a hundred years earlier. The story of The Last Station is told through a narrative environment. As you go from station to station, you must piece together what happened and wonder if another Visitation would or could happen again. In The Last Station, you take control of the train operator who travels across a dying world in search of supplies, passengers, and perhaps the salvation of all mankind.

Mysterious canisters of no known worldly origin crashed landed on Earth, releasing a viral toxin that turns people into mindless zombies. It’s been quite a while since the Visitation brought death and destruction to all. I know I sound like I’m being sarcastic, but as random as that pairing may be, it all works exceptionally well to create a rather engrossing post-apocalyptic journey. Do My Best Games has brought their 2016 opus The Final Station and its follow-up DLC The Only Traitor in a combined offering to the Nintendo Switch.

#RADIATION ISLAND SWITCH REVIEW SIMULATOR#

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