Recommend/discuss survival games (aka Hi crpgnut!)

Originally Posted by Wisdom
I played The Forest last week.
Good survival elements that aren't overly onerous. You can tell it was made by a small team, but impressive effort. Controls are simple. Theres a few things that aren't intuitive and I had to look up (totally did not guess how to do hotkeys) but overall not a bad game. Not a fan of mutants though.

Approximately how many hours did it take you to finish and how much of that was spent base building?

Originally Posted by JDR13
Approximately how many hours did it take you to finish and how much of that was spent base building?

Not sure I could even guess that. In this case I didn't actually finish the game. I did spend several hours building a houseboat base but a quick glance at the forums and reddit people can spend 40 hours on the basebuilding etc. I'll keep playing once I have more time.

To get distracted from my current thoughts, I watched the movie "Vayana" by Disney, and I found that Windbound fits very neatly into that setting, it imho really looks as of the makers had been inspired by that movie.
The only real difference is the look of the protagonist of the game itself : She has a lighter skin colour than I'd after watching the movie …

Playing the demo for Starsand right now. I'm seeing a lot of potential here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1380220/Starsand/

Humble Bundle has a new bundle called Survive or Die. You get 7 survival games for as little as $15

SCUM
Breathedge
The Wild Eight
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Die Young
Dead in Vinland
How to Survive 2

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/s…m_medium=email

Originally Posted by JDR13
Humble Bundle has a new bundle called Survive or Die. You get 7 survival games for as little as $15

I don't have three of those, so I might get it…
Also, I want another SCUM key because a friend wants to try co-oping it with me. So - expect a giveaway of three double-ups sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by Shagnak
I don't have three of those, so I might get it…
Also, I want another SCUM key because a friend wants to try co-oping it with me. So - expect a giveaway of three double-ups sometime in the future.

I'd be interested in trying Die Young or Empyrion if you end up with an extra key.

Originally Posted by JDR13
I'd be interested in trying Die Young or Empyrion if you end up with an extra key.

Sorry, they're; two of the ones I don't already have.

The extras I have are:
The Wild Eight
How to Survive 2
Dead in Vinland

I gabbed a copy of Die Young last night and played for a couple of hours.

Eh…it's "ok". I'd call it a survival game for beginners. The crafting is very simplistic, and there's no structure building. It's more of an action-adventure game with light survival elements than a real survival game. Visuals, sound, and atmosphere are average at best.

Originally Posted by Shagnak
Has anyone here played Conan Exiles?
It's currently 50% off on Steam, and free to play for the next two days.

I tried it, it was quite polished, but I don't play survival/building games, so I didn't play it for too long. I have heard it does have nice building crafting system, with a lot of spots in different types of landscape to choose from, taming animals and slaves are cool aswell, but a bit basic. And they sell dlcs with more of motives. But there are some interesting mods aswell.