If you're looking to dive into the game yourself, is a unique squad-based RPG where you can choose your own path—whether as a trader, thief, or warlord.

You can buy the full version on Steam or GOG for approximately $30, though it frequently goes on sale.

His goal was simple: reach the Great Library in Black Scratch. They said knowledge was the only currency that didn't lose value when the beak things started hunting. If he could find the blueprints for a wind generator, he could finally start a farm in the Border Zone—a place to call home, a place where he wasn't just food for the cannibals.

He had started with nothing but a tattered shirt and a blunt iron club. His first week was spent scavenging the outskirts of Hub, dodging starving bandits who were just as desperate as he was. He’d learned quickly: in this land, you don’t fight to win; you fight to survive long enough for your wounds to scab over.

By the time the moon rose, casting a pale, ghostly light over the jagged obsidian ridges, Kaelen had reached the ruins of an Old World workshop. He wasn't alone. A group of Holy Nation outlaws had settled near the entrance, their campfire a flickering defiance against the dark. Kaelen didn't approach. He knew the cost of trust. Instead, he hunkered down behind a rusted hull of some ancient machine, checking his meager supplies—a half-eaten dried gristle wrap and a few sips of foul-tasting water.