The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands - Create A Village And Tame The Wilderness!! (Steam PC Gameplay Review)
Channel: LIFE RPG
Date: 05/03/2018

Remember Life Is Hard? Remember Villetown? Pepperidge Farms remembers. Today we are building yet another village in The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands... The question with a game like The Bonfire Forsaken Lands isn't whether we will fail or succeed, rather it is how long can we last before failing. It's certainly harder than it looks.

What first attracted me to The Bonfire Forsaken Lands was the art style. Simple yet eye-catching. The UI buttons are a bit too large, but I assume that's largely due to the game being a mobile port... But for a mobile port The Bonfire Forsaken Lands isn't half bad! The gameplay is comfy. Kick back with a controller and be whisked away!

Villagers will arrive, called by the bonfire. You can then assign them different jobs and equip them in attempts to make them work quicker and more efficiently. Mechanics are introduced at a very nice pace, but the end game is surely where The Bonfire Forsaken Lands shines brightest. How long can you hold out? How big can you grow?

Each villager has their own personality that might make them better or worse at their assigned tasks. I enjoyed assigning all my strong villagers as guards to muscle out those pesky wolves and giant spiders. Enemies will assault you during the night.

While I'd like to see the game expanded a bit more The Bonfire Forsaken Lands does a great job at keeping me engaged. The gameplay footage you see here takes place about an hour into the game which seems about sufficient for a review. We only get a glimpse at the end game of The Bonfire Forsaken Lands, but I will be back for more.

The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands will release on Steam March 9th: http://store.steampowered.com/app/788210/The_Bonfire_Forsaken_Lands/

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Welcome to The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands Gameplay! Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients. Build your own settlement and manage the in-depth simulation, survive dangerous monsters and harsh weather, and discover something new with every passing day in a beautiful snowy landscape with minimalist aesthetics.

It’s safe to say that the survival genre has gotten a bit saturated over the years, so it’s pretty special when a game that falls in that category happens to stand out. Xigma Games’ The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands could very well be one of those games.
Pairing idle game elements (think A Dark Room) with traditional survival mechanics and some fantasy RPG flare, The Bonfire looks to be a streamlined practice in settlement building that’s made just for mobile. Gather wood, build an encampment for yourself, and construct defenses against the terrible monsters that prowl the snowy nights.

The game rewards players who are brave enough to get out and explore this wild, icy world, too. You’ll find dungeons full of weapons and treasure, temple ruins, and other mysteries ripe for discovery. - PocketGamer

If I had to pick two games that surprised me with just how engaging they were, Kingdom: New Lands [$9.99] and A Dark Room [$1.99] would be major contenders. In the case of Kingdom, it looks like a simple side-scrolling pixel art game but in fact is an incredibly deep simulation and survival game. As for A Dark Room, well… have you seen screen shots of it? It looks like some totally stark text game, like someone tried to make a gamebook in Terminal. It too, however, is much more than it appears to be on the surface. If you're a fan of one or both of those games, then you should be pretty excited to hear that those served as the main inspiration for Xigma Game's new project called The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands. Check out the trailer.

Xigma's own description of The Bonfire is "Gather resources and build your settlement in a snowy encampment. You can Craft a variety of equipment for your workers and Fight monsters at night to protect your settlement. Slowly the settlement will thrive and players will be able to send scouts and explorers. Workers have an A.I. that reacts to the time of day. They will work during the day, sleep at night and have unique personalities. Dynamic weather system provides an additional challenge. The world of The Bonfire is filled with hidden mysteries. Clear dungeons, restore temple ruins, study ancient texts and save the world from malevolent Gods." It looks absolutely fantastic, and is coming sometime in February for $3.99. I'm really, really interested in checking this one out, so stop by the game's thread in our forums to discuss The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands ahead of its launch next month. - TouchArcade