Prepper Van

Prepper van might be the longest playthrough-wise and most gameplay-heavy title I've tried in the Neo-Twiny Jam thus far. With a simple looping gameplay system, along with an inventory system and stats, it does a lot with that word limit.

Disaster strikes. Sitting in your van, you have a choice of things to pick up, a choice of things to buy and a choice of a place to stay before the game tests those choices and what you have accumulated with a disaster. Your end objective here is to get a job before disaster consumes you.

Pretty early in the game, my parents threw me out for being a jobless bum. Still, all you need to do is work out how to survive day by day, accumulating as many survival items as you can, and eventually wait for your lucky break. After taking some time to work out the gameplay, and going through countless loops, I managed to get a job, thus saving myself from the disaster cycle. Maybe I'll be able to stay under my parents' roof now.

The art is mostly hand drawn sketches, but I did like the simple feel. This game does a lot with that 500 word limit, so I think that's something I can give a top rating for.

Prepper Van is a tiny adventure game, where your goal is to survive as many disasters as you can in this apocalypse future, AND find a job. With you van, and some dozen dollars in your name, you can pick up hitch-hikers or dead amarillo, buy or sell supplies, and hope you can go through the day unscathed.

There is something quite dystopian about this entry, although I am not sure it is intended. For all intents and purposes, it seems the Earth is going through the End of Times (tm). Yet, your parents nag you to leave the house to find a job, because you're freeloading off of them. And you struggle to get exorbitantly expensive basic supplies to survive the night (and whatever shenanigans of the hitch-hiker du jour).

I don't know... I'd expected small groups of people banding together and have enough humanity to share things (until the inevitable raid from the rowdy group a field over...). You know, more together we can survive anything. Less whoops we're destroying the Earth but capitalism is a demanding master still.