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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 13.0 hrs on record
Posted: 7 Aug @ 5:39pm

((As of reviewing this, the steam version STILL doesn't have it's achievements working! 8th of August 2024))

I played this quite a bit a while back, however, this game can get very frustrating due to being a rogue-like where much of your progress is entirely based on RNG.

The story is that nuclear war has happened and now there are mutants and monsters roaming the land and you have to get up to the saftey of a shelter in Canada, however, you only have so much gas so the only way to do this is that as you travel, you make tacos for the people at the different pitstops along the way to buy more gasoline (which increases in price each new and more dangerous zone) but you also need to buy ingredients to actually serve people, otherwise you won't get your money and if you get a taco wrong, you have to refund it, so there's a handy book of recipes to remind you, though I found with most it's fairly easy to guess what each one is from the image as you can usually see the Salsa, Cheese, meat and ect.

As you are travelling, you also have to collect ingredients such as meat from passing creatures. This can be from a harmless farm animal like a cow or chicken or a giant mutant rat or mutated humanoid! However, they aren't helpless and will attempt to smash you apart unless you shoot them down first and if you lose all your health, you have to start the game again, but you've unlocked some cool decals to decorate it next time!

The shop never has ALL the ingredients so sometimes you'll find places that'll have the ingredients that are most common in the tacos (cheese, salsa and such) but other times you might want rarer stuff like beans, and mold but each stop you come to it's random if they even have it or not! I've lost too many times by running out of Salsa and not being able to buy any for too long, getting stuck due to a lack of fuel.

There is another type of pitstop as well, one that sells upgrades for you truck, replacement trucks and even repairs but you can't buy any ingredients and they only accept scrap from any and all destroyed debris you blow apart on your journey there.

thankfully at every stop there's a gas pump, but it ALWAYS takes cash and if you're revisiting a place, the survivors who were there are usually dead by the time you arrive so you can't sell anything, which I feel makes the game ever more difficult and frustriating to play.

That said, I still had fun blowing up monsters and serving their innards to the survivors who seem to not care what it is, as long as it's in a taco, I guess.

Maybe it's something to do with Tacos, I don't know, I've never tried them though I admit the cheese one looks delicious!
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