Games where you must continually eat food/drink water or die

[gnoitall]

@Duke

I don’t think Angband did.

The real point of eating in NetHack, of course, wasn’t just to stave off hunger but to get certain powers by eating the right kind of corpse (floating eye for telepathy, fire beetle for fire resistance, etc.).

Deep-fried anything for dropping your weapon all the time…

The joys of opening a mystery can of mystery meat. Still, it was worth it if it was, say, a can of deep-fried ghoul (I’ll take a free experience level).

[Tom_Scud]

@Zsofia

Ha, yes, who didn’t learn about dysentery from playing Oregon Trail?

[TMI]Sadly, I learned about dysentery the old-fashioned way.[/TMI]

[choie]

In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadows of Chernobyl – aka Stalker for anyone doing a search – you don’t have to drink, but you do need to eat every few hours. You can also find bottles of alcohol (I think it’s vodka) that, amusingly, help you if you’ve got radiation poisoning. You get a little drunk/dizzy but your health improves.

[Neidhart]

Your Sims characters need to eat or they’ll die of starvation.

[Darkhold]

I think the Might and Magic series had this. I remember picking apples from trees in Might and Magic IV before going anywhere.

Also you’d go insane/die if you didn’t sleep enough. I killed half my characters by travelling somewhere on accident and travelling right back. I guess nobody sleeps on the road in that game.

[Frank]

@Darkhold

Also you’d go insane/die if you didn’t sleep enough. I killed half my characters by travelling somewhere on accident and travelling right back. I guess nobody sleeps on the road in that game.

While you do need rest in M&M, this sounds like you didn’t have enough food for the journey. Say it takes three days to get to Erathia from Harmondale: you’ll use three food on the way there, and on the return. If you don’t have enough food, you’ll arrive weak, or with a condition, or dead, depending on how short you are.

[Darkhold]

@Frank

While you do need rest in M&M, this sounds like you didn’t have enough food for the journey. Say it takes three days to get to Erathia from Harmondale: you’ll use three food on the way there, and on the return. If you don’t have enough food, you’ll arrive weak, or with a condition, or dead, depending on how short you are.

I remember it as sleep that drove my characters mad…but it was years ago so it’s possible I’m remembering wrong.

[Rigamarole]

RL.

Shitty game.

[Der_Trihs]

@Rigamarole

RL.

Shitty game.

Good graphics though.

[pulykamell]

@Chronos

That looks like an earlier version of the game. I’m only familiar with the NES version.

The NES version of Ultima (which is the one I’m familiar with, too) has a good number of differences from the PC versions. Food is one of them.

[Skywatcher]

@GreasyJack

There was an old game back in the 80’s that was called Wilderness: A Survival Adventure that was basically a backcountry travel simulator in classic text-based adventure game form. That game was basically all about meeting your basic needs without dieing. I’d post a link, but the only reference whatsoever I can find to it on the internet is on abandonware sites where you can download it, and I don’t know if linking those is kosher here.

Moby Games is fine. No game downloads there.

[Rigamarole]

@Der_Trihs

Good graphics though.

Yeah, but it’s really buggy.

[GameHat]

@Mahaloth

Quest for Glory series.

You have to have food on you or your character can die.

Yep, popped in to post that one.

Man, QFGIV would have been my favorite Sierra adventure of all time if it wasn’t so damn game-breakingly buggy.