5/30/2023 0 Comments Mr. prepper apple treeThere are three main stats to keep track of for your character – fatigue, preparedness, and health. Murricaville’s residents refer to you as “Mr Prepper”, but your character says “People call me Mr Prepper” when introducing themselves, which leaves the matter a bit ambiguous.Įarly in the game, building your bunker is certainly an important element, as is juggling power and food, but from the second act onwards the focus is on resource gathering to start building your escape rocket.įood plays a big part in the game – vegetables and meat not stored in a fridge (or later, freezer) will rot, but can be combined with different ingredients to make soups, stews, roasts and so on – and those can be canned, pickled, or marinaded to give them an even longer shelf-life. The game is a bit vague about whether your character’s real name actually is “Mr Prepper” or whether it’s just a nom de resistance which your character has adopted. You’ll spend a lot of time exploring forests, mines, and the desert in Mr Prepper. In between all the planting and watering and harvesting and mining and crafting, the game also manages to fit in an interesting story too, about how the Government’s mind control satellite is basically keeping most of the population docile and that you are uncovering some of the mystery, with the aid of an enigmatic pen-pal known only as “The Minuteman”. One of the neat touches is that disassembling items returns component resources at a 1:1 ratio, so if you build a table requiring five wood then realise you need that wood to power your steam generator, disassembling said table returns five wood – meaning you don’t feel like you’re getting punished for Going to the forest means you can scavenge wood and fruit, and the wood can be turned into furniture which can be sold to another member of the anti-Government network for money, which can be used to buy supplies from a third member to allow you to build better equipment and so on.īuilding your secret bunker is fun but not especially complicated – the real challenge is in generating enough electricity to keep everything powered, and (until later in the game) sourcing enough water to keep your underground farm thriving. Where Mr Prepper comes into its own is the foraging, trading and NPC interactions – along with the whole “avoiding the Government agents” stuff. Trade with other people working against the fascist Government is an important element of the game. Mr Prepper has a quirky aesthetic that’s a strange combination of 1940s/1950s and 1980s/1990s – there are fighter aeroplanes in the game clearly inspired by the WWII P-40 Tomahawk, and the town itself is very much a 1950s Pleasantville kind of place, but there are also cordless phones, computers, and action movies too. Too many or not enough common household items raises your suspicion level, and if it gets too high, you get arrested and it’s game over – so juggling your need for resources with your need to not get arrested adds another dimension to the early game. The aspect which I found really added some variety to the game was the idea that you’re under Government surveillance for being a subversive, and that once a week a Government Agent will drop past to search your house to make sure everything is in order (and that you aren’t trying to escape again). Building an underground bunker and a rocket to escape the country is the name of the game in Mr Prepper.Īs the game opens, your character has been caught by The Agency trying to escape and placed under surveillance – but this isn’t deterring them, and they start constructing a bunker from which to plan their escape from the town of Murricaville.Īt first glance, Mr Prepper looks like it shares a few similarities with Fallout Shelter, particularly from the side-on underground base building aspects.
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