Depraved – Useful Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

General Tips

• Keep a lookout for dead horses. If you leave a horse unattended, it will die. Also, look out for dead people (gunshots, stabbings, sickness, etc). Sometimes horses/people die behind buildings so they are hard to see.
• When you build outhouses, spread them out throughout town. Build your first couple in the center of town (like behind your warehouse and/or town hall), and build more as your population increases. Think of yourself. If you had to go really bad, how far would you want to have to walk to the nearest outhouse? The more people packed into a certain area, the more outhouses you’ll want to have there (warehouse, saloon, hotel, farm section, etc).
• Make sure you have enough drinking water, whether you’re producing it by your own wells, or you’re buying it. And if you have wells, make sure they are producing clean water (like don’t build a well next to an outhouse). Eventually, wells will run dry. You’ll have to demolish those and build new ones elsewhere.
• When people die while they are carrying an item (ore, wood, water, gun, etc), that resource stays on the ground. However, the item is so tiny you probably won’t notice it laying there. Occasionally take a wagon and have it go through town in a grid pattern. Start at the top left and have it move to the top right. Then move it down a little bit and have it move back left. Watch it the entire time. When it comes near a dropped item, you’ll see the item icon come up by the wagon. Stop and grab the item.
• Have a bandit camp right outside town? Then round up your most discontented residents, the “murderous rampage” ones. Make sure they are all armed. Click on them separately and make them all walk to a “meeting point” on the edge on town (the side where the bandit camp is). Then, as a group, order them to attack the bandits. You kill two birds with one stone here. Either the discontented residents solve your bandit problem, or the bandits solve your discontented residents problem. The remaining problem is now weaker, so finish it off quickly while you have the opportunity. After the bandit camp is demolished, don’t forget to send a wagon to pick up all the free guns now laying on the ground.
• Take care of bandit camps quickly, as they will grow. It’s much easier to kill 4 bandits than it is 6. And don’t let it be a fair fight. Send twice as many residents as there are bandits.
• The Indians can be a great source of income. At minimum, have one trading wagon available for each Indian camp. There’s an occasional glitch where you can buy something from one Indian camp, only to go sell it to another Indian camp for more than you bought it for. Once you get your first town up and running smoothly, your wagons should ALWAYS be moving somewhere. If they are sitting still, you’re losing money.
• Horses are another good source of income. Always collect unowned horses, and build stables to put them in. Once you build a Train Station, selling horses is a good side gig.

Financial Management

The financial management in this game is fast-paced with a steep learning curve, and your bank account can make wild swings.

Some possibilities:

• If you constructed a couple of buildings, then you have to subtract the materials cost for building them, and also now the regular maintenance costs of those buildings.
• If you’re trying to hire workers, some new peoples could have moved into town and taken those jobs, thus increasing your employee salary costs.
• One of your income streams could have gotten disrupted.
• Bank robberies happen.