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  1. December 24, 2023 - Day 358 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 380

    Game: Smoke and Sacrifice

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: May 31, 2018
    Installation Date: Dec 18, 2023
    Unplayed: 6d
    Playtime: 29m

    Smoke and Sacrifice is an steampunk-themed isometric survival RPG.

    You play as Sachi, a mother seemingly forced to sacrifice her first-born child to "the Sun-God", a machine that provides light and heat to Sachi's village, after "the freezing".

    However, all is not lost; turns out that the children being "sacrificed" are not actually being sacrificed (killed), but transported to an underworld, and being sacrificed to a form of slavery, forcing them to work to feed the "Sun-God" and keep it running.

    Sachi finds herself transported to the same underworld location, where she begins her survival journey to try and find her now-seven-year-old son.

    Unfortunately, the story wasn't enough to overcome the frustrating survival mechanics that I encountered in the first 30 minutes of the game, with successive fetch quests required to slowly grind the story forward, by the time I hit save, I was hoping that I could find a recap of the storyline of the game somewhere, just to find out how it ends.

    Sadly, for Smoke and Sacrifice, the last thing I was interested in sacrificing was any more of my time; it's a:

    1: Nope

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