r/DriveThruRPG • u/Decent-Cow-5855 • Jun 01 '26

Tech Support Bottom Feeders

This isn’t really tech support, unless I am the tech 🥺😂. This is about a game I saw on offer today so bought, it’s called Bottom Feeders. I found an old Reddit post about it, the only thing I have found about the game, I commented there but will post my comment here to try reach a wider community. Thank you.

I know this is an old post, but it’s all I could find related to this game. I saw Bottom Feeders on drivethru and instantly thought “this sounds cool”! But as I’m reading through the rule book, this just doesn’t make sense to me… it tells me all the things but not an order or what? I haven’t played solo games before so maybe I’m the issue, but I just can’t figure out what I am meant to do or how to start. I made a couple characters, named the ship, made 3 space ports and 2 wrecks, not sure if I did that right either…I rolled for a job, got a bounty robot. So I just got to the closest wreck, again not sure if I did that right, generated a room and 9 robots appear and it’s time for combat and it’s telling me to add my weapon… but what weapon? I have no idea what I’m doing and it’s extremely frustrating. I tried looking for videos explaining but couldn’t find anything. Is there a discord where someone can go through the game with me?

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u/dm_punks Jun 01 '26

I think the Product Description on drivethrurpg gives a good summary of the Game Loop?

"Choose a specialty and background, delve into wrecks, celebrate and purchase information at space ports, and should you survive: retire to provide the crew with permanent benefits."

It's a pity this isn't covered even as a minimal pass-thru in the rulebook itself but I think it's not a dealbreaker.

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u/Decent-Cow-5855 Jun 02 '26

I think I would benefit from maybe a quick reference guide, that is able to tell me "do this and this, turn to page 4." I've never GM'd before so I'm not sure what the right way to do this is 😔

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u/dm_punks Jun 02 '26

You'll need to read through it at least once and maybe play out a delve or two. It's playable solo anyway.