Need For Drink

Need For Drink sounds like a joke title, and that is part of the problem and the charm. By our assessment, it most naturally reads as a small, likely goofy game built around drinking, survival, or managing a thirsty character, with the name doing a lot of the work before the gameplay even begins. That kind of setup can be funny in short bursts, but the ceiling is low if the mechanics do not offer more than the gag. In practice, games with this sort of premise live or die on whether the core loop is more than a pun. Need For Drink would sit on the sillier end of the spectrum, closer to a novelty indie idea than a serious system-heavy game. It is for people who enjoy the joke first and the mechanics second, and not for anyone looking for depth or polish on the same level as bigger genre names.