The Flame in the Flood
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The Flame in the Flood is just about survival in a harsh wilderness

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sometimes, just surviving is a game. That’s the idea behind The Flame in the Flood, a beautiful indie game that is being shown off at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Your job is to navigate the flood waters of a raging river and survive for as long as you can in the wilderness.

You play a young girl, Scout, who has to navigate the wildness with her dog. The game has the increasingly popular feature of Permadeath. If you die during the game, you go back to the very beginning. And, unfortunately, this game takes that idea very seriously. It will probably make you frustrated, but you may have a sense of triumph, the longer you survive.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.