SubsistenceColdGames I’ll start this review by admitting that I’m a huge survival game fanatic. I think I must have played almost every other survival game under the sun—the good, the bad, and the homely. One game that originally kept me coming back to it over and over again was Rust, the punishment simulator. “The punishment…
Mr. Prepper: Prologue (Beta)Rejected Games / PlayWay S.A.. Video game developer, Rejected Games, announced their bunker-building simulator back at the beginning of 2019. It’s called Mr. Prepper and a beta of its Prologue (which tells part of the final planned games’ story) is now available to play on its Steam page. After this Prologue beta…
SCUMGamepires My friend and I drove our rusty compact car to the top of a grassy hill and jumped out to get a better look at our surroundings. It was a clear day and consulting our map, we could see that we were close to a small coastal town. We broke out our binoculars and…
DeadsideBad Pixel Although I thought I’d played just about every survival game on the market since first trying out the DayZ mod for Arma 2 (back in 2013), Deadside caught me by surprise. Even though it has apparently been out for a few years now, I’d never heard about it until recently. And the more…
RustFacepunch Studios Like most gamers who have played Rust, I have both good and bad memories of playing Rust. Actually, let me back up—Rust was one of the first survival games that I played, years ago before it exited Steam’s Early Access program in February of 2018. It was pretty barebones back then, a shadow…
Green HellCreepy Jar My buddy and I are only an hour and a half into playing Amazonian survival game, Green Hell’s, new co-op mode. Things started off decently enough, but now we’re standing on the overgrown banks of a deep river. We’re already halfway dead. After starting to construct our makeshift base we realized that…
Conan ExilesFuncom Conan Exiles has been moving from strength to strength ever since its debut back in 2018 (not counting its Early Access period). Funcom has been adding not only tons of free updates and valuable content, they’ve also been releasing DLC packs that are cosmetic-only and reflect the different cultures within Robert E. Howard’s…
Frostpunk: The Last Autumn DLC 11 bit studios When Frostpunk debuted in 2018, it quickly garnered its fair share of praise from both critics and gamers alike. It wasn’t simply just another city management title, it was the first global catastrophe simulator with city-building elements. What made Frostpunk unique was that you had to make…
AtomicTorch Studio Daedalic Entertainment Survival games seem to be a dime a dozen these days and frankly, most of them are merely slightly different takes of already established titles. For instance, having played the likes of Miscreated, DayZ, Scum, Survive the Nights, etc., even though each of these games features slighting different variations of what…
Survive the Nights a2z Interactive Survive the Nights has been in development for several years now. It’s a zombie-pocalypse style game in a similar vein to 7 Days to Die, where the undead are more docile during the daytime hours and deadlier at night. My first game involved choosing a server and then spawning into…