Stranded in the year 10,000, Kent - an average Joe turned clone - must survive, explore, and rebuild civilization with the help of his quirky robot companion. Craft, farm, and automate in this 2D craftervania adventure as you uncover Earth’s secrets and kickstart humanity, one machine at a time...

You'll find yourself travelling from trash mountains to desolate ruins

Kentum is a survival game which attempts to deliver the best elements of base building, exploration, resource gathering and base management games and present them in a totally new light. For the most part, the game succeeds. The game has a quirky sense of humour, which helps greatly to ensure you warm to the characters, but it also constantly delivers variety to ensure that you don't get bored too quickly.

Whilst the resource gathering and constant crafting can get a little tiresome, on the whole this is true of most games in a similar vein.

You start the game stranded on an unforgiving planet. You're also hungry, so the first steps are to head on out, explore your surroundings in order to gather items that you can cook and resources that will allow you to craft machines in order to turn your broken space module into a self-sufficient base of operations.

Scan and catalogue every rock, plant and creature to ensure your survival throughout each season. Work out which plants are best to farm to help grow your base. Start small by transforming bone and wood into coal, machine scraps into sheets of metal, until you finally grow your base into a resource-generating machine.

Turn your broken space module into a self-sufficient base of operations

As the world opens up, you'll find yourself travelling from trash mountains to desolate ruins, as you traverse post-apocalyptic Earth with your hoverboard, hang glider, grappling hook and more.

One of the aspects which I found a little frustrating was the ease with which your character dies. And whilst they are respawned as a clone back at base, you'll have to head on out to where you died in order to collect all of the resources you were carrying.

It's an interesting enough game, especially if you're a fan of survival games.

7

Nick Smithson