NEO Scavenger Review | Struggle™ | Survive™ | Sell Sewer Water™ 

"Have you ever wanted to be a homeless crackhead" - yeah, when you recommended Underrail.

>Chavs outside SSeth's house >they're in an astra yup thats about right.

Holy shit, I've been living in Manchester for 5 years and I only just found out that those freaking metal capsules on the ground I see everywhere contain laughing gas that people get high off of, lol.

Sseth: Manchester Game: Detroit Me: *What’s the difference?*

*How Seth finds games to review* *Selects sort games by content tag: Cannibalism*

"No one plays with me, so they're both single player" Oof, this got me pretty hard.

Some guy stole my sleeping bag while I was sleeping in it. I'm not even mad, I'm just impressed. I don't even think that I woke up

>talks about his sleep paralysis demon >asmongold appears accurate

As someone that just lost his job and may soon be doing this to survive, I thank Sseth for this instructional video.

This is my favorite “murder-the-homeless-for-a-single-boot” simulator. Also, you can get cancer as a debuff. 9/10.

Somehow, before playing this game, I actually thought this really did take place in Manchester UK 2008 But apparently it takes place in Detroit, which isn't actually that much different.

So quick tips for people who keep dying: 1. Trapping is arguably the best skill in the game. It lets you catch food, it lets you start fires very easily (to cook food and boil water), and it lets you start with a very excellent piece of clothing off the bat. Bringing me to: 2. At the start of the game, make sure you have Trapping and Melee and/or Tough (I prefer melee). When the Wolfman comes, fight it with your combat skill, which will put a dogman corpse at the cryo lab. Craft using the body, one of the glass shards lying on the ground, and the Trapping skill to get a fur coat. Just by itself it easily keeps you from dying of hypothermia. Try to make sure you use a 100% quality glass shard, because that determines the durability of the coat. If you have trouble finding one, you can craft a glass bottle with nothing to break it and get 100% glass shards. 3. Now I did say Melee and/or Tough. Because if you take both and use both to take on the Wolfman, you kick its ass. In addition to the body for the coat, you get a recording of your fight. Take that with you all the way to Detroit and show it to the Hatter. This skips his quest and also gives you the insanely busted "Unstoppable" secret skill. 4. Back to the melee skill: You can use it to craft the Broad spear (large stick can be found in the forest, combine with a glass shard, the Melee skill, and some string), which is one of the best weapons in the game and has a range of 3, letting you hit many enemies before they're in range to attack you. Like the coat, aim for a 100% glass shard for a max durability spear. 5. In combat, focus on not getting hit. Use dodge and parry to make your opponent vulnerable. When able, trip them, or use other methods to stun them or get them on the ground so you can get free hits in. But above all, make sure you take as few hits as possible. 6. Get a metal pan if possible, if not an empty soup can will suffice. This will let you boil water, giving you easy access to sterilized water. You can easily find water if you scan the map for any tile with water in it. While normally you'd prioritize water from a moving source (like a river), using a pan or can to boil water means that even bog water will be safe to drink. Also keep plenty of water bottles on hand (as well as some sticks and kindling to start a fire) to make sure you don't die of thirst. You can also boil dirty rags to get clean bandages. Very handy for healing yourself. Both sterilized water and clean bandages can sell for good money at the shop as well. 7. If you desperately need food, keep in mind that blue berries are always safe to eat and yellow berries are always poisonous. Red berries and mushrooms are a gamble if you don't have botany. 8. In story moments when you have a choice of what to do, always assume that something sketchy will probably kill you. Always err on the side of caution and take what sounds like the safest option. Gambles rarely pay off in this game. 9. Never talk in combat, as it can be a death sentence. The only exceptions are A) If the opponent asks to talk first, or B) if you end up in an encounter with guards right outside of Detroit, ALWAYS talk to them because it instantly ends the fight, and otherwise they will fucking waste you. 10. Fast Metabolism is actually a really good flaw. It makes you need more Food and Water, but it also makes you heal more quickly. And if you took Trapping like I told you, you shouldn't have any trouble getting sufficient food and water to sustain yourself. And you'll get some free building points for taking it. 11. Myopia can be a dangerous flaw to take, but can potentially give you an amazing build if you survive to Detroit with enough money. Though it's very expensive, you can spend $1000 at the Haggerty Health Clinic to get Myopia replaced with Eagle Eye, turning a flaw into a perk while still retaining the build points you got from selecting the flaw.

"Crackhead chariot" is now my favorite new euphemism for a shopping cart.

Damn simulator games are advanced nowadays Now they're simulating a whole country

As someone who has played this game for the better part of 5+ years, I feel *slightly* compelled to share some details about surviving. 1. While a funny detail, you can't acually beat people with shoes or squirrels (im sorry in advance) 2. to cure your thirst of cannibalism, you have to find a specific location and talk to a doctor for it, the first time you cure it the people there will take it as a sign of good-will but the next time you come back with the curse the people will kill you. 3. sell everything over a hundred detroit dollars to any trading center, while water is good to sell its time consuming and relatively boring. 4. you can unlock special abilities by doing random quests (ie fight robots and disturb a nursing home) these abilities are considered secret and are generally pretty overpowered. 5. if you survive for longer than a month, a small reminder that there is a brutal seasonal cycle. 6. unless your forklift certified, you can't take on mall cops, because they can spawn amazon drones that can shred you to pieces 7. there is a midget known as the "enfield horror" that wanders the center southern region of the map. it aint worth even beating him and he isnt that scary. 8. if you find detroit, don't leech on the restaurants forever, you'll run out of money. grind for squirrels instead. 9. dont stay to close to people who are sick (or have blue sashs) they, in the most blunt terms, have aids and cant be cured normally. 10. dont overload yourself with loot, in the words of sseth himself, "The best character to speedrun the game is a turtle, because you'll die before you reach the diner table". I shall leave now, farewell. if you do buy this game, it is honestly the most worthwhile purchase in your life. enjoy.

My longest run in this game started with me killing a werewolf with my bare hands, skinning it with a piece of broken glass and wearing it's fur. The same playthrough ended with me approaching the megacity, getting into combat with something that I couldn't see, and then getting shot in the head and dying on the first turn.

Finally, a game for the dead squirrel community.

This game is essentially "Homeless man tries to survive in hell without drinking sewage".

2:48 "As your body bleeds from ever orphice-" *Made in Abyss flashbacks*

As a "Veteran" of this game I highly approve of thise video, and of course when I say veteran I mean " played the game when it came out on google play, found out it was a demo, and then played it so much out of spite that my third eye has opened". full game is cool tho' truly much more than initially meets the eye.

1:01 "outside our house" Sseth, please, take your meds. Mandalore is not real. It is just you in the house :(

"Don't f- with me 'coz if you do, I will run away" Never have I ever heard of something so intimidating in my life...

Cutting up your starting clothes with a shard of glass to get string is actually min-maxing your resources. If you die naked from hypothermia before you find replacements, you had a _really_ bad run and it's probably for the best.

I never managed to survive longer than 10 minutes in any of my runs in this game, so I'm genuinely shocked to hear there are more enemies than just wolves.

God, finally. I've been playing this game for YEARS and waiting for someone to cover it. There's so many other things in this game that aren't even mentioned here. Like: * How one of the only ways to consistently progress through one of the later sections of the story is to make a poncho out of aluminum foil, with your only hint to do this being a random scrap of newspaper * If you kill the Merga Demon (the thing that chases you when you take off your necklace, it's really hard), you get 2 secret perks, and a portal opens to another dimension * If you take both Strong and Melee as perks, and use them in the starting cryo chamber, you to beat the shit out of a dogman so hard that you not only take no damage, but your character goes "that was badass" and takes the security tape of you doing it. If you deliver this tape to one of the plot NPCs, you get 1 secret perk, and skip an entire main plot quest (which would've taken ~4-5 hours irl) And that's just a few things. Thanks Sseth, you always deliver. EDIT: Lot of people talking about how easy the Merga Demon is to kill with certain strategies in the replies, so I changed my wording, but the fact that you basically have to cheese the game's mechanics to beat it with any level of consistency just proves my point that it's hard as hell

I "tried" this game just now. started starving in a field, shot a random scavver out of desperation, now I am only satisfied by human flesh 10/10

Best setence i've heard: "Trapping, let you start fire for improvised heating, and catch squirrels for improvised *Beating"*

I swear dude, I end up pirating 90% of the games you review (I'm not well off and money is always tight, so when I buy a game it needs to be a game I'm positive I'll enjoy.. so piracy equates to demoing for me) and within a few weeks I buy them all. Starsector, UnderRail and NEO are now on my top games of all time list and I play them endlessly. I'd have never heard of these games if not for you. Thank you.

"Appearances can be deceiving." (shows picture of Astolfo) It's always nice to be reminded that Sseth is a man of culture and taste.

I can't help but think that Seth is your local crackhead who breaks into libraries at night to make youtube videos to feed his crippling addiction to hentai. A man of culture.

As someone from the UK, I can confirm this does indeed sound exactly like what life in the UK is like

Had a run where I managed to kill 3 enemies in a row. First a dogman, who I speared then immediately ate, then a cultist that saw me feasting and shot me in the chest, which I shrugged off and speared to death yet again, and finally an unfortunate feral dog that stumbled upon me and managed to break my spear in two, so I did the only logical thing in that scenario, which was to beat it to death with my bare hands. 10/10

I knew when Mandalore dropped a vid yesterday that this was coming. Your alter-ego is right on schedule.

I can confirm that this is literally just England

Can we talk about how the value for a human corpse is “$1.00?”

You really hear the change in the confidence in Sseth's voice over the years.

Sseth whisper “Hey Hey People” in my ear for optimal ASMR😫💦

Decided to "try" the game and this is a small part of my experiences in the first hour: -Stumbled upon a hobo -Hobo attack me but missed -Smack the sauce pan on the hobo's head stunning him -Smack it again for another stun and he's on the ground now -I proceed to smack my sauce pan on that man's head until the consecutive concussion kill him 10/10-will kill a hobo again

I met recently quite a lot of british people. The reaction to the question about how the things are going on the isles is mostly nervous chuckling. Hang in there guys. Update: Nevermind, shit's hitting the fan all over the place. Hang in there, us.

If anyone is looking to play this i highly reccomend getting Neo Scavenger Extended. Its a pain to get clear instructions for installation and finding an up to date version. But, the latest version allows you to become a crack paladin in scrap metal plate armour, a hobo gunsmith or alternatively a wagie for detroit if you have mechanics or electrician (or learn them through a 45 hour course in game when you fill out your paperwork) , which allows you to buy MRE's , gas masks, hazmat suits and company branded work gear. Or just turn in high tech equipment at the Prospectors office. It also adds many items too numerous to count that add to your hoarding addiction. Not to mention... other creatures. If anyones wondering i am never, ever leaving Detroit and my wagie cage after killing a particulary aggressive deer, only for the body to get up and reveal it was a man in a deer fursuit who proceded to sprint at me, naked, weaking the skin and skull of his remaining fursuit.

He always says "Hey Hey people", but he never asks "Are you okay people?".

Don't you love it when an African Warlord living in England gives you advice on great games?

fun fact, the beta of this game was called The Portland Survival Guide

7:30 I cannot believe you used Accursed Farms for this bit. This is the best video you've made in a while, 10/10.

"I wonder if sseth lives in London, he refferences the UK quite a bit, but pronounced pasty wrong inna previous video" *dudes huffing nos in the carpark* "Yea he lives in the UK."

Seth is reviewing a lot of games wherein he imagines himself a homeless crackhead. I think he's got an underlying fetish driving his content choices...

this sounds perfect for me. as my high school was in the most affected area of the city by the meth and opiod epidemic. Crackhead engineering is a science, I've seen a methhead turn a stroller and a bunch of items being recycled in a back alley into a meth mobile

Having played hours of Brigador now, it's nice to come back to this video and find that I've been listening to its ost the whole time.

1:36 "I'm gonna Batista Bomb your nan in the middle of ASDA" I'm stealing this

Oh! Ohohoho, yeah this game. I played this ages ago when it was still early access. I think my crowning achievement was stumbling upon someone dying of infection because they didn't have any shoes, which was perfect because *I* didn't have any food. I kicked the shit out of them over the course of two days because I was starving and couldn't actually hit them very hard. They eventually died of the infection. Only, they didn't have any food. I left to scavenge for berries but couldn't find any. And when night hit I had to make a fire in the forest and contemplate my oncoming mortality and that's when inspiration struck. I could just eat... the infected dead guy. I went back to the tile where he was but, lacking a sled or cart, had to drag him manually across the floor to my camp in the forest one tile over. *Did you know things deteriorate if you just drag them across the ground?* I unloaded him at the campsite and he immediately fell apart into 240 pounds of rotten meat. A sight and sound I can only imagine comparable to upturning a bucket of soiled wet paper towels. My character, now hungry, hypothermic, and starving immediately passed out into this pile of rotten meat and died there. The squirrels... would feast.

7:29 lol! Hi Ross~. Long story short for anyone who doesn't know: That guy with the long brown hair is Ross from the Accursed Farms youtube channel. He had to move out of his apartment cuz it had a lot of mold in it.

The picture of Ross from Ross's Game Dungeon when you brought up falling into the black mold was pure uncut excellence. I spit the mouthful of Lucky Charms cereal I was eating all over my monitor I was laughing so damn hard. Thank you Sseth.

Sseth has summoned me through my notifications I obey my master's desires

Now I wonder whether Sseth actually lives in the UK and whether I've passed him by on the street at some point... He knows England way too well.

I love every video you put out, they are always so much fun and make my day. They also help introduce me to games I never thought to try. I hope you make videos for a long time to come.

seth is like a friend we can't get mad to because he's being rude in a polite way

Medication : WH40K : Mechanicus No medication : Neo Scavenger

Thanks to Sseth, all the apocalyptic survival games he has recommended have given me the skills to survive the current COVID-19 crisis.

This video has really helped me after losing my job living in south east London.

As someone in Michigan, I can confidently say that this is a accurate simulation of living in Michigan.

7:29 oh hey its Ross Scott from accursed farms. Nice reference Sseth.

Fun fact, you're safer in this version of Detroit than the one that exists rn t. Michigander

I've rewatched these videos for years now. Time does fly

I have been binge watching your videos for the past two days now and cant get enough. Unfortunately I have to wean myself off of them to avoid huffing gasoline and paint thinner when I have watched them all and spiral into a deep depression.

the Ross Scott cameo nobody asked for, but everyone needed. Accursed Farms on youtube, great game reviews and other stuff. edit: Ross Scott, I'm tired etc etc

Found the alley on google maps. Coming to do nang bongs outside your house.

3:44 Allows to fix the lighting in Cryo Facility (in exam room 17) Allows the identification of the military grade batteries as well as various electronic devices. Allows crafting of the Homemade 4mm Gauss Rifle

3:10 Sseth knows of Ifunny? Dear god help us.

I love when mandalore uploads two in a month

Can confirm this game is an accurate representation of life out on the streets of Croydon

6:00 this is all from Brigador Soundtrack way before he made the review on it

"The end of your long, drug induced journey" Laughs in Camp Grayling

"Let's see, I'm pretty sure I left some firewood in my Paw Patrol backpack. Lemme just fish it out here and I'll survive the night." *takes hunting rifle and ignites it for fire instead*

"Black mold" *Ross's com block dilemma*

I was waiting for this review for my whole life!

6:30 "Outward appearance reflects inner state of mind" damn, that's deep. 9:48 hahahahaa, gotta love tyler.

The "Hey Hey People" in this video sounds so energetic, so full of life. Sseth truly is our god

"Helps you start fire for improvised heating and catch squirrels for improvised beating" that's where I leave a like without question

After three videos, of Sseth I just realized what "trying it" means. I've already "tried" most of the games he's reviewed, and personally bought a couple of them. ;)

1:00 I worked at a carwash and one time I was throwing away trash and several of the bags was filled with those metal canisters I just now learned what they are and what they were probably used for

I actually helped to crowd fun this game years and years ago. The dev sent me a postcard IRL, im sure I still have it somewhere.

Tried playing this on mobile, and my negative iq doesn’t let me get past the first 5 minutes

Love you sseth, great video

I'm not sure how I always miss your videos despite having your channel subscribed with a bell. But I always remember to check from time to time, and there it is, a new video RU-vid didn't bother to notice me.

As a citizen of England I can confirm this is pretty accurate

Tfw you'll never play civilization with an African warlord using your newly transplanted pizza hands. 😢

Having actually done a playthrough I was actually really disappointed in how excruciatingly short it is. And like 90% of the gameplay is pressing the same cycle of actions to maximize loot and safety when scavenging. There's a decent amount left to be desired in regards to the context consideration in certain situations too. Like a random encounter with a woman, you choose to go to help her, and she instantly caves your skull instakilling you with a crowbar. DESPITE you having the tough trait + a fuckin helmet on. That's a cardinal sin for a roguelike. Inexcusable. This is a good concept with a lot of good ideas tossed in but it fails hard at making scavenging fun/interesting which is kind of a big deal. There's not nearly enough random encounters to break up the monotony and there's a small but significant lack of consideration put into the encounters that are there.

I've known about this one for several years, honestly a perfect game for this channel. Knew it would get here eventually.

Up next on Crack-Head TV: Shopping cart Jousting!

...you know, literally 10 minutes ago I thought "It's been a while since the last Sseth video..." Is my inner Merchant getting stronger?

Instantly subscribed. Best review of the game you could want.

You are overdue, Mbeke. Where is my monthly fix of SSSSSSETH?

Ah yes. Perfect timing for the Corona aftermath. Thanks seth your content is always one step ahead

As a Britbong I can tell you with 100% certainty that England is exactly like this at every given moment of every goddamn day

Me and my buddy spent our last day of smoking weed watching these videos and playing Starsector. Thank you Sseth, looking forward to more frequent videos!

Thank you Sseth. Very cool.

Oh I love this one! Nothing like drinking sketchy water, then catching dysentery, followed up on a quick human meat snack before getting mauled by a dogman in your sleep! Truly a Balkan State simulator.

PSA: Neo Scavenger has an active modding community on its forums and the mods nexus.

This is one of my favorite videos from sseth

Is it me, or does the writing hit different in this one? Holy shit, I've never heard the comedy as unhinged as I have in this review. Bravo, man.