Nimoyd is not a brand new game just being announced today. Not by a long shot. It actually began life as far back as 2016 as a side-project prototype thing between two friends, designer and programmer Rafael and artist Jeffrey. Their biggest design goal was to solve a problem that plagued other survival sandbox games, namely that the mid-to-late game tends to devolve into a repetitive grind as you’ve basically maximized all the game’s systems and are just going through the motions trying to obtain the best gear. Their solution is a game called Nimoyd and it sees you crash landing on Earth in 2702. What’s going on in the world of 700 years in the future" Well a deadly fungus is growing larger and encompassing more of the planet every day, so you’ll probably need to do something about that, eventually. Not right now, though. Since you just crash-landed you’ll need to gather up some resources and build the necessities for survival, like a simple shelter, a bed, some food, that sort of thing. From there, as is the case with most crafting survival games, the world is your oyster. Build your house. Heck build a whole city. Or build a fortress and fight off enemy factions. Or join up with friendly factions and fight off alien invaders. Or build a mech and go around wreaking havoc. Or find love, get married, and start a family. And when you die, continue playing the game as your offspring and do it all over again. Nimoyd is about as open-ended as...