In practice, however, it never actually works. Tribia: Prehistoric Tribes's model relies on you investing love into your tribe in almost Tamagotchi fashion. Sadly, however, none of this is especially fun or engaging. While you don't actually control any specific characters, you can instruct any of your tribe to take action by simply planting an arrow above any space or object.
The whole thing takes place on a 2D map, viewed side-on, meaning your options are essentially restricted to moving left or right, and pressing '5' in any spot to carry out a set action - killing animals for food or building a new hut are among the most prevalent. There's also fighting off beasties for food to consider, as well as taking down any rival tribes encroaching on your living space. For example, building new huts uses up materials that have to be obtained first – rocks and trees hacked and rolled into workable tools on command. In reality, however, coming out on top in most levels is simply the result of obeying orders.Įach level you undertake comes with goals, but meeting them relies on your ability to follow through on set processes. Pitch-wise, Tribia: Prehistoric Tribes feels like an attempt at a fairly basic take on real-time strategy, requiring you to further your mini-civilisation by expanding its settlements, feeding its people, and bolstering its resources.
The game's main problem is that it's hard to figure out just what the whole thing is for. That's pure speculation on my part, of course, but chances are anyone who tries Tribia: Prehistoric Tribes will draw the same conclusion. Oh, and everything that went on was utterly boring. The pitfalls are fairly obvious: an abundance of appalling body odour, the daily danger of a gruesome death at the hands – or, rather, teeth – of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the fact that the official pre-order process for the 3DS was still some way off at that point. If Tribia is anything to go by, life in prehistoric times – or, rather, the mythical era when man and dinosaur lived happily side by side – was far from easy.
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