This is the story of Noh'bo of the River Mountain Tribe, and his quest for redemption

Noh'bo ran as quickly as his feet could carry him back to his village on the river, spear and flint knife clenched tightly. When he arrived, what he saw made him drop to his knees and cry out in angered and anguish...

Blood covered the rawhide huts throughout the village. Ripped and torn bodies strewn throughout the village. His own wife Vyrie among them, almost unrecognizable had it not been for their unborn son cruelly splayed out next to her.

Noh'bo's cries stopped when he saw that from under bushes and climbing down from stout trees all the children of the village clamored to him, sobbing and telling him that a mountain lion had come and their families told them to hide.

Noh'bo was now the only adult left. He burned the dead, and his wife and their son. Along with his great boar blanket. The symbol of his masculinity, his hunting prowess. The thing that kept him from the village where he could have protected his family.

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It's awesome, but i'd suggest holding off and seeing how crazy the modding scene gets and what the devs plans are as there's probably only around 50~ hours worth of solid content.

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yeah, it is good. there's a couple ballaches
>people don't understand blizzards and will walk around, only looking for warmth once they're so cold they're literally starting to die
>there are no formations in combat, so once you've got more than about 10 people on each side it gets awkward to control
>some of the storage buildings are forced to accept all goods, you can't specify what goes where
but none of those are dealbreakers, and other than that it's a lot of fun. surviving by hunting and gathering with a tiny population in the early ages is fucking great, but expanding and upgrading your settlement is pretty cool too.

Now the care of the village fell to him and half a dozen orphans.

The once proud hunter now spent his days close to camp skewering trout in the river during the day and stitching the children's clothes at night. He was their father and their mother. Their survival and their wellbeing was his charge alone. He spent the short summers of his prime picking pears and strawberries. Watching "his children" as he called them grow, always looking over his shoulder in fear that the lion would return to finish his tribe.

The survival of the River Mountain Tribe depended on the once insolent and haphazard youth as days turned to months, months turning to years...

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A NAME WOULD BE NICE

dawn of man

Yooooo
Dawn of man

Lmao its like 6 hours of content that you repeat 3 times

unga bunga

Early stages are definitely the best, once you've got farming and animal stables sorted you just kinda sit around hunting for new mine sites as you exhaust the old.

Although it's pretty interesting, in the early stages you're really focused on managing everything carefully, selective culling of animals, keeping trees, berries/fruit/nuts etc close by and you're people are actually a whole lot happier with less to do up until around 40 people, but as your population hits 100+ suddenly you're just raping the entire area non-stop for resources, entire forests get wiped out, entire animal populations, mining sites for miles around etc with the only goal being to expand, breed and consume.

The children grew older and stronger, as Noh'bo grew older and more frail. His eyes once keen and fierce grew glossy and soft. The once great hunter now looked the part of an older caretaker. His memories of Vyrie remained young though, and his pain ever fresh.

Noh'bo forbid the youths to hunt, relying on traders for pelts trading fish and flint for their wares. The children finally gathered and and begged him to teach them to hunt and track. They needed pelts for more huts, and bones for tools. The trader didn't come as often for the same old dried trout to barter for.

Reluctantly he relented, the survival of their tribe depended on it, and led a small band of them in pursuit of game.

The old man's talents quickly returned to him, they were tracking an animal in no time, a herd in fact... stag.

They finally neared them near a river fork and closed in for the kill, but then.... a scream in the distance.

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The group ran rapidly back to camp. Noh'bo trying to keeping up, his old bones and aching muscles failing him. He cried out for them to slow down and to let him go first into the danger but they paid no heed.

When the youthful, green hunters finally arrived they saw a young man and two dogs fighting the mountain lion at the edge of the camp. Bloody and battered already and in need of assistance before another slaughter ensued.

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yeah. the "endgame" is a lot stronger than something like banished, but I still wish there were a couple more late-age buildings. a temple or some spiritual building would be cool.

Noh'bo finally crossed the river and saw the scene at camp. The lion was ripping into the tribe's dogs and the boy swiping at it with a knife was already torn beyond repair. The children of his hunting party were rushing to his aid and making inaccurate and wobbly spear throws harmlessly missing or grazing the hungry puma.

Noh'bo froze. The cold dead eyeless image of Vyrie laying lifeless and bloody on the frozen ground, their unborn son laying next to her, the blood curdling screams.... Noh'bo couldn't move.

He looked again at the children, desperately trying to fight the lion, protecting their village and each other, but in vain. They were his children and he would have to watch them die too. The thought sickened him... and then it angered him, rage filled the old man, quick blood filled his body with courage, his eyes sharpened again and for just that moment he was Noh'bo the young hunter again!

Noh'bo stepped towards the fray....

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Yeah I feel like the whole spirituality/morale system could use some more work and building variety.

A temple would definitately be cool and a more central communal building of some sort would definitely help bring everything together in the later ages.

The children were shocked at the swiftness of the old man. He darted past them, throwing his spear mid stride with great strength, a battle cry on his lips and a flint in his hand.

I am Noh'bo of the River Mountain Tribe beast! Today it will be your blood that drenches this village. The lion turned from the beaten boy and whimpering dogs to face his match.

The two lions clashed hand to hand tearing into each other. Blood coated both of them. The lion was swift and strong, but finally Noh'bo's blade found it's throat and ripped it open and a torrent of dark red blood poured out and fell on the grass, both lions fell shortly after into the pool.

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>central communal building
yeah, I agree. having everything centred around a hearth makes perfect sense for the first few ages, but not later on

Oh shit Noh'bo is about to cop a spear from behind, kids be wanting their dry fish inheritance sooner rather than later.

The children surrounded the scene. Noh'bo clinging to life, his rage leaving as quickly as the blood ran from his wounds. He looked up at the children and smiled.

I'm proud of you my children, but I think my time here with you is over. Survive and grow, teach your children and the children of others what I've taught you. Make our tribe thrive!

He then turned to look at his defeated lion. He looked back to the children and asked for his spear.

He clenched it tightly in his fists and then his grip loosened. He turned his eyes to the sky and they watered and glazed.

"Vyrie..." he whispered and then Noh'bo was gone.

His children buried him in the hills he used to hunt as a young man overlooking the village. And always remembered his lessons and passed his teachings as well as the legend of himself onto their generations....
How many Noh'bos were there that led to us to now in those early days of man?

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Hope you enjoyed it guys. The screenshots could have been better...

Noh'bo might have to accept his old tribe sucked, how can a whole tribe die to a single lion?

Is gud

Good stuff user, reminds me of a Cultures thread I did years and years ago.

Any OC is good OC.

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Drawing a crude penis isn't original, and it barely constitutes content.

Better than another Wojak edit.

interesting that you'd pitch your tent there, would think you'd keep it closer to your raw skins

Can I go full Conan in this? As in raid and rape other villagers?

Nah, Kenshi or Mount & Blade is what you want for that.

no, sadly. mass slaughter of large animals like mammoths and groups of raiders is the extent of the carnage you can inflict on the world

F Noh'bo

Sad but does it have good building element?

hot

it's decent for a game mostly about survival. no roads or walkers or traffic or anything. but there's a few tiers of buildings in both housing and production, some minor monument-building stuff, managing carts and sledges, etc.

This could be a pretty good game if it was all about going from the stone age to future age.

Would have been neat.

Copper age and onwards kind of gets boring. Also the small amount of flat land in your starting area makes it difficult to plan and build a large settlement.

Also theres just not enough depth to your people. I don't feel attached to any particular individual at all, if they die they just get replaced.

I heard the game has some form of tactical combat? Is this true?

Not at all