Hungry Meem is a component real-time technique, half simulation and duties you with feeding little monsters known as “Meems” and slowly increasing their village and holding feast occasions to develop the World Tree on the middle of their dwelling. By way of using an on-screen cursor, you choose areas, actions, and Meems so as to collect supplies, assemble buildings, and feed these odd-looking creatures. The in-game tutorials aren’t fairly as efficient as they could possibly be, and so it’s not a foul thought to decrease the issue stage early on earlier than you absolutely get your bearings.
The World Tree capabilities like a dungeon that homes the supplies you could scavenge to ensure that the Meems to outlive and thrive. By selecting up and shifting a storage bag, you’ll be able to information your Meems to forage for sticks, meals, vines, and different gadgets. Your first problem is to make use of the large cooking pot within the village to craft snacks in order that your Meems don’t lose their nerve whereas scouring the World Tree. It seems that cookies and different snacks you’ll ultimately be capable of produce are very important in your success; when a Meem’s psychological well being reaches zero, they bug out and can begin dumping the products you’ve acquired out of your bag and customarily ignore all the pieces they’re imagined to be doing. Of the three parameters you could monitor–starvation, bodily well being, and psychological well being–the latter appears to be probably the most very important, at the least early on when you have got fewer mechanisms to boost it up.
Whenever you return from a profitable dungeon crawl, your hard-earned good points are thrown in a basic storage space so that you can use on cooking, constructing manufacturing, or particular person Meem requests. One of many principal ways in which you make progress in Hungry Meem is by finishing the duties assigned to you by an omniscient statue named Tohren. After you’ve gone via a dozen or so such quests, you’re invited to throw a feast for the village, and this will increase the extent of the World Tree, which in flip opens up new areas of the dungeon so that you can discover. Alongside the way in which, you’ll have the chance to develop your village’s inhabitants by having two Meems mate with one another to supply an egg you can incubate and even assign particular discovered abilities from the mother and father to the offspring.
The overworld map additionally grows as you acquire particular development supplies from Tohren quests and contained in the World Tree, so the outside and inside each step by step increase over time. That mentioned, the gameplay loop doesn’t appear to vary an entire lot, and the problem is extra targeted on buying the supplies you could throw the following feast and maintaining your Meems hale, hearty, and sound of thoughts. When it comes to visuals, the presentation and menus are pretty lackluster, which makes the grind rather less palatable. The sound results vary from weird to disagreeable, and so a lot of the aesthetic a part of the expertise lands on a bitter notice.
Hungry Meem jogs my memory a little bit little bit of Pikmin besides clumsier. The zoomed-in dungeon perspective makes it troublesome to place the storage bag in order that the Meems will act the way you need, however even then they will battle in a large number of the way, like consuming the meals you wish to convey again as a result of they’re hungry little Meems. Very like elevating toddlers and children who seemingly have bottomless stomachs and insatiable need for snacks, so too do the Meems that you simply depend on to progress ahead within the sport. Because of this you’re continually juggling fulfilling however fleeting moments and irritating concerns, and the top result’s one which’s exhausting to advocate. It’s a little bit enjoyable as soon as you determine how one can get what you need from it, however Hungry Meem takes a bit greater than it offers, and finally it serves up a feast that stuffed me up after just some programs.
