Underplayed Gems

The Story of The Flood (2022)

The Story of The Flood cover
Developer
ZHANG FAN
Publisher
SHEN JIAWEI, Mammorize
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie
Rating
3.7 of 5, 78 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 1.1 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A slow, introspective experience where you make deliberate choices about what to save, exploring a sparse post-deluge world through puzzles and vignettes that feel like a walking meditation on loss and humanity.

contemplativeatmosphericminimalistexperimentalnarrative-drivenchoice-focusedsurvivalreflective

What players say

Players describe a short, atmosphere-driven interactive fiction where you drift on a boat carrying only five items. The game incorporates a personality test based on your choices, but many find the gameplay repetitive and the movement frustratingly slow. Some appreciate the nods to the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Screenshots

The Story of The Flood screenshot 1The Story of The Flood screenshot 2The Story of The Flood screenshot 3The Story of The Flood screenshot 4The Story of The Flood screenshot 5

More games like this

More by ZHANG FAN

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.