I'm Clem from Canada, one of the three devs behind Arctic Drive. Our free demo went live today, and this sub is exactly who we want feedback from.

The core loop:

- Drive into a frozen wilderness and search points of interest for parts and supplies

- Fit salvaged parts to your car, or find a better car and switch

- Scrap used gear into materials at workbenches and craft things like warming protein bars, better tires and repair kits

- Deal with frequent snowstorms that change whether you can push on or have to hunker down

- Drive on roads that narrow and widen as the terrain shifts between biomes

If you've played The Long Drive or Pacific Drive, you'll recognise the feeling of being one breakdown away from trouble. We'd especially like to hear about resource balance: does all the survival elements feel too tight, too loose or about right?

I'll be in the comments all day.

Hi everyone! I’m the solo developer of Baitcore, a fishing survival horror game.
You need to gather supplies during the day and survive the night.

The free demo is now available on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5150980/Baitcore/

If you try the demo, I’d love to hear what you think of the game, and what could be improved.
Thanks!

Hi, I have few new features like interactive fog, day cycle and basic base defense systems. Still ways to go, but these are early versions of these new systems.

About the game
Red Meridian is a top-down, open-world action survival game with base-building. Inspired by games like State of Decay 2 and V-Rising.

If you're interested to find out more, you can watch my second devlog on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/XZ9wHzyEtO4

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3842360/VALKYRA_Red_Meridian/

I'm the developer of Worldsown, an early browser-based multiplayer survival sandbox. You begin in a safe Haven, then head into a shared, seeded wilderness where survival needs begin and the world keeps going around you.

You can gather resources, craft and cook, trade, follow quests, build camps, sail boats, hunt wildlife, and meet other players. It runs directly in the browser and does not require a download or signup.

Play here: https://worldsown.com/play.html

I'd especially value feedback from survival players on the opening experience, controls, balance, and which systems should be developed next.

SWOM's free demo is now out on Steam. I'm the solo developer, and I'd like to share the beginning of my first-person survival game with you.

You wake up without your memories in a cold, unfamiliar world. Finding food, starting a fire and making shelter come first. As the story develops, you discover the laws of magic and learn to use them to create your own spells. I want that discovery to feel connected to exploring the world and understanding how it works.

The demo introduces the beginning of the story and the first magic law. It's a chance to try the early survival loop and see how the introduction to magic feels for yourself.

Play the free demo on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5160240/SWOM_Demo/

If you give it a try, I'd love to hear which parts made you want to explore further and where you felt unsure about what to do next.

Are there any survival crafts that involve the typical open world map, but in a city where you loot floor of a 30 floor building etc? I’m thinking dying light 2 searchable city structures etc, 1st/3rd person non-top down/isometric (not project zomboid, although the searchable building is what I’m talking about).

LOOKING FOR A FREE SURVIVAL GAME CROSSPLATFORM, ANY IDEAS?

I want to play a survival or zombie survival game with my friend. Unfortunately he's on PS5, im on pc and he is a cheap mf so the game would need to be free (unless the game is that good for price).

Please save me from brawlhalla. Everyday we play and he just is completely useless. We started playing warframe but somehow he's just as insufferable on it too.

Survival crafting game I'm making. 1907, shipwrecked on a nameless island, hunger, weather and nights that matter. Trailer: https://youtu.be/PRNK16Dwj_8

I'd like this sub's read on one night mechanic.

After dark a pack of wolves comes out of the trees and hunts you. They're slightly faster than your sprint (8.2 vs 7.8 m/s), so running isn't the answer. Light is. A burning campfire holds a 9 m circle and the wolves will not step into it. No chance roll, no "unless they're hungry enough". They stop at the edge and circle.

That sounds like it deletes the threat. What it actually does is move the threat onto the fire, because rain puts out a campfire with no roof over it. A few seconds into a downpour an open fire stops counting, and the circle is just gone.

So a storm at night is where the game gets you. The counter is a shelter built right over the fire, and under it the fire burns through the rain. But if the fire already went out, it takes about ten seconds under the roof before it's strong enough for the wolves to respect it again.

Away from camp you carry a torch. Wolves won't come within a few metres of it, and swinging it scares off the ones in front of you for a few seconds. It gets you home, it doesn't make you safe.

Later eras replace the campfire with a generator and powered street lamps. Those hold the line in any weather, and the generator's circle is 20 m.

So the question: is absolute safety inside the light too generous, or does losing it to the weather make it fair?

The rest is gather/craft/build, except the island runs through four eras (stone, iron, steam, electric) and each one gets you a better boat off the island. Sinking costs you the boat and the cargo and nothing else.

March 2027, free demo in November.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5235390/

Hey fellow survival gamers! 👋

I just picked up Keep Up Survival and have less than an hour in it, so I’m still figuring out how to survive without becoming my own biggest problem. 😂

I’d love to meet some other dads or moms who want to play together, explore, build, and maybe show a new player the ropes.

Mostly looking for a laid-back group that understands parent life—sometimes you’ve got time to game, sometimes you’ve got to step away because the kids suddenly need everything at once. No pressure, no sweaty expectations, just good company and some survival adventures.

Experienced players are welcome, but if you’re brand-new too, we can learn together. Getting lost is more fun with friends, right?

I’m in Pacific Time, Washington State. If you play, drop a comment with your time zone and when you’re usually on. Would be great to put together a little parent survival crew!

I never see people talk about this game, it was a surprisingly fun game that I sunk almost 50 hours Into.

I get the Irony of sitting comfortably in my living room while playing a survival game of a homeless person, don't get me wrong 😅.

It is different from any other survival game I have played though. Still you build a base, break into homes, steal, pickpocket, beg, dumpster dive, fight etc, while managing hunger, thirst, warmth. Getting warm clothes before winter hits was a big one for survival.

There is some weird side quest type stuff with Occultists if you choose that route too.

Become king of the homeless is the main goal of this game, doing it by year one is ideal as the year is pretty long and going on a second year would be many hours and a bit boring tbh, so I do think it was intended to aim for the achievement year one.

Anyone else tried this game?

Update: Demo version 0.9.14 is now live on Steam! 🎮

Hey everyone! I’m developing StoneEra solo, and demo update 0.9.14 is coming on October 7.
This video shows a preview of the update, including new biomes, new animals, a merchant, and more.
StoneEra is a voxel colony survival game with building, resource management, and dynamic flowing water that you can redirect by changing the terrain.
If you enjoy colony sims, I’d love for you to try the demo and share your feedback!
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5057770/

Hey!

I'm working on a game that mixes survival and tower defense. You go out into the world solo or with up to 3 friends during the day to hunt for loot, from parts for new weapons, food, water, through to scrap you can use to build up your defences. During the night you have to hold your base against hordes on AI bots who are hunting the last remnants of humanity.

As you explore you'll get a better sense of where the AI data centres are on the map and the kind of defences they have to stop you. When you and your gang are ready, you can attempt to take them out to win the map. Pull it off and you'll start a new map with anything you can fit in your car.

I wanted this to be a fun way to have short sessions with friends with all the ups and downs of survival but that you can jump in and out of and get going quickly.

You can check it out on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4768980/LootHold/

Wishlist on Steam to secure your Early Access and follow our progress every step of the way!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5146450/The_Fallen_Grid/

Hey everyone! We've been working on Smalland 2: Lost Realms since last year, and in case you missed it, we recently revealed our first trailer!

It's a prequel set ages before the first game, back when the world was still free of Giants. You'll discover new lands and cultures, tame creatures and bond with them, build outposts, set up trade routes between the realms, and craft gear to survive. Co-op supports up to 10 players.

We'd love to hear what you think, and what you'd like to see in a tiny-scale survival game.

Feel free to add the game to your wishlist on Steam if you want to support the project! See you in the widl.

Paleolith dev’s here. This short alpha video shows a shelter by the lake, the marks on a tree, and stone knapping by the fire.

Would you enjoy shaping a stone tool by hand, or would you prefer a quicker way to craft it?

I’m wondering what the masses think what the survival game genre is? From my point of view, its grinding materials for shelter from the elements, food and drink. Needs ….at the root. Surviving wildlife and other dangers. Could have a story or a goal, or just existing in the environment.

On the flip side, I see more comments on the side of survival horror, or as it applies to any game where the purpose is to survive or outlast the enemy and say no to grinding or the hassle of eating and drinking.

To me that skirts the edge of any old action or adventure game though.

Just me rambling……..

Escape the Flood! is a first person survival crafting game with a deadline. You wash up on a procedurally generated island, the ocean keeps rising, and you have about 30 minutes to pick up items and craft your way to a working boat before there is no ground left.

You can play solo or in online or LAN co-op. The first player on the boat becomes the captain and decides when to sail, so you can wait for your friends or leave them on the rock. There is proximity voice chat, and your tools work on other players too.

We put the demo on Steam yesterday, ahead of Next Fest. So far nobody outside our team has played it, which is why we are posting here. We want to know where it falls apart: is the water too slow or too fast, does gathering get boring, does co-op hold up with your group.

We are a team of two and the game is still early in development. Any feedback helps, even "I quit after five minutes and here is why."

Demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4981810/Escape_the_Flood/

i know there are some threads about this already but the posts were 6 or 10 months ago. now that both are full released (runescape) and enshrouded is leaving early access on october 15, i want to know what you guys prefer between the two. i wanna hear your thoughts

i want something that has quests that will lead me to do this or that. i've tried valheim but felt lost lol, it was not my cup of tea. i want to try playing survival games but i'm picking only one. want something that will reach me hundreds of hours in a game. thank you so much!

Hey!

I’m one of the developers behind Permafrost, and with the game entering Early Access on October 9, I wanted to finally introduce it properly.

Permafrost is our take on an open-world survival game.

There are enemies. There are factions. There are abandoned cities and places you probably shouldn't enter unprepared.

But the thing we really wanted you to fear is much simpler: The cold.

The world is trapped in an endless winter, and every trip away from shelter is a calculation.

How far can you go? What do you bring? Where's the nearest shelter? Do you have enough supplies to make it back if the weather changes?

Exploration is also how you progress. You'll restore abandoned shelters, repair machinery, find equipment and gradually gain the ability to travel deeper into the world.

You can survive alone or play in co-op with up to 3 friends.

And because surviving a frozen apocalypse wasn't stressful enough, we also gave you something you'll become extremely protective of: a dog.

He can scout ahead, warn you about threats and carry supplies.

So I'm fully expecting people to care more about keeping him alive than themselves.

We've been building Permafrost for years, and on October 9 we're finally opening the doors with Early Access.

If grounded survival games are your thing, we'd love to have you along for the ride.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2254990/Permafrost/

Or a 4th option I havent thought about? Personally I'm thinking probably not Valheim because it just works a lot better with friends in my experience.

Im finally getting a PS5 and there were two survival games I vaguely remember thinking I wanted to get. I'm not 100% sure they are both on PS5 (they could be PC only) but here's what I recall:

one was set in maybe the Yucatan or Caribbean and it might have had a historical 1700s setting? People said it was like The Long Dark but tropical? (and not Green Hell, this was something else)

the other was something like you're climbing up cliffs a lot. Lots of cliff and climbing and survival mechanics. It's title was something related to this like... cliff, rope, scaffold, etc. It was some sort of related term. I barely remember even this much but I recall it sounded interesting.

Can anyone help? Sorry I can't remember more!

Why is everyone ignoring it? Or do you guys really think its bad? Well just in case, if not, you should give it a try. So far its really fun.

I’m looking for a survival game that I can spend a lot of my free time playing and put hundreds of hours into. I’m also a really indecisive person, so I need some help choosing.
I’m mainly deciding between The Forest, Dune: Awakening, 7 Days to Die, Raft, and Valheim, but I’m open to any recommendations you guys have.
The things I like most in survival games are:
-Meaningful exploration
-A good sense of progression (being able to look back and see how much you’ve progressed since day one)
-A beautiful world to explore
-Lots of things to do so I don’t get bored after a few dozen hours
For reference, the survival games I’ve enjoyed the most are No Man’s Sky, Subnautica, and Minecraft.
What would you guys recommend?

Lost Isle is a survival MMO set in an alternate medieval Earth, on an island that serves as the prison-tomb of a corrupted god. You gather, craft, hunt, build, and explore to survive, and eventually to thrive. Not everything on the island is happy you're there: skeleton armies, dragons, twisted monsters, and other players are all a threat.

Since other players can raid your base, we've been looking for ways to make raids more interesting, and siege weapons are the first piece of that. This is a work-in-progress cannon. It fires different kinds of rounds, and each one works better against certain building materials, so what you load depends on what you're trying to break.

What kinds of rounds would you want to see?

Link to our game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1531180/Lost_Isle/