#if you can stomach every single kind of animated gore ever I’d reccomend you give it a watch

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Scavenger’s Reign’s Worldbuilding

Ok so people have absolutely mentioned this before but I can’t get over how excellently Scavenger’s Reign depicts a realistic and terrifying alien ecosystem.

Like Vespa is alive, it’s lived in. Our humans are visitors to an already active world. Sure, they’re considered prey by quite a lot of a lot of the inhabitants, but this isn’t a giant sand worm or asteroid slug situation where creatures seem to sustain themselves only on travelers.

And they do this all through a pretty simple and repeated trick! For nearly every absolutely batshit horrifying new alien hunting strategy we learn about, they first show us an example of how it applies when humans are absent. Like I can name about five times off the top of my head where the tension is immediately ramped up by watching a local creature die horribly before the predator turns on one of the protagonists.

In landing, the humans have become a tiny part of the ecosystem. They’re far from the center of the world, and it conveys this amazing blend of helplessness and wonder that I haven’t seen before. Survival takes a combination of luck and skill, and while the actual ratio is different for each character, they’ve all needed to engage themselves with this environment, learn from observation, and use that knowledge to survive.

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