are any survival games actually good?

King of Posters
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What

What is this genre

Is it different from survival horror? Is it survival horror but with no monsters?

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Food games

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Roguelikes but with half-baked fps mechanics

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DayZ???

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deus

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Iā€™ll vouch for this.

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Yes, but now you can build things.

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survival horror without the actual horror genre, instead trying to leverage the general shittiness of online gamers previously seen on xbox live

basically
single player survival games are ā€˜check the boxes to not dieā€™ games
multiplayer survival games are asshole simulators
that iā€™ve seen anyway

i do have the long dark bc i read some glowing reviews but yet to play it, bc backlog, and bc early access

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Man screw all of you Donā€™t Starve is excellent.

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Actually I think itā€™s way more accurate to say that survival games are Minecraft, except without the terrain alteration aspect, i.e. the best part of Minecraft.

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I enjoyed Miasmata for a quite a while, but finally lost interest due to the clunkiness. I wanted to love Robisonā€™s Requiem which I bought on GOG, but for some reason I kept dying of dehydration every two minutes. Maybe it was a bug.

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Oh, I suppose if that counts as a survival game then there is at least one good one.

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The Solus Project came out recently and is an okay survive-'em-up/explore-'em-up/uncover-ancient-alien-truths-'em-up.

Unless youā€™re specifically talking about stuff like Rust.

In which case, no.

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I enjoyed the first Lost in Blue! Is that at all relevant to this thread? I canā€™t tell.

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Was going to post this, wish this was available on the Nintendo eShop or something..

There should be a survival game like this, but where you have to intentionally avoid all rescue attempts because living on a secluded island is like, totally awesome

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No, because theyā€™re made largely by lazy hacks with Unity.

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man do not knock middleware, it fucking works

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unity has a bad reputation because all the good games made with Unity donā€™t have the Unity logo in the opening splash while all the bad games made with Unity have it first thing

but honestly,

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the one ive had the most fun with: Salt because it takes the hackeneyed mechanics that all survival games have (literally, they all have The Same Mechanics,) but also the sailing from windwaker

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You may mean something else here, but Lost in Blue is pretty excellent. Like Dragon Warrior without the monsters, sorta.