Pulling weeds, chopping stones, creating arable land? Looking for food, shaking nuts from the trees? Or should you first chat with your tribal brothers and sisters, socialize, and check out the human environment? The hero and his 30-member clan start out quite helpless and at the bottom and have to transform the wild nature into a home and culture using primitive means: stone wedges, water hoses and fishing rods. The Pachanians don’t know money, but rely on barter and neighborly help. They are happy to share their crops, hunting prey and, last but not least, knowledge and flashes of inspiration. On the one hand, you work on your own farm, sowing, watering and harvesting. At the same time, you participate in the evolution of the community, which uses resources, plants, wood, minerals and metal to produce increasingly effective tools and discover new working methods. With your help, colleagues build drying, cooking and smoking devices, juice presses, milk and cheese tubs, animal traps, beehives and irrigation canals; Last but not least, you invent sophisticated cooking recipes, beautiful clothing, jewelry and furniture. Most of it can be done with quick clicks, a few mini-games require talent or practice – a steady thumb helps when fishing, a sense of rhythm when playing the flute helps to charm lions and mammoths.
Backstory and prophecies that must come true spur you on; Above all, a lot of NPC interaction, conversations and the prospect of love and life partnership are motivating. The clan quickly builds bridges to four other parts of the world – forest, savannah, beach, jungle – and makes contact with the Yakua tribe, which settles to the northwest: They are friendly, but there are whispers of a third and its cruelty and treachery…
Roots of Pacha proclaims an understated, educational message and paints praise for the community in the cutesy pixels of the SNES era. The developers love it Stardew Valleyprobably also Harvest Moon or Zelda. And how Secret of Mana hat Roots of Pacha a co-op mode – cross-platform, but unfortunately only online, not locally.