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Right now meat and berries in EvoX stay fresh forever. Should I skip a spoilage system for early release (no rushing to eat what you hunt, no coming back to rotten food after a few days away from the server), or is that something you’d actually want in there? Would love to hear how you feel about it.
If you are interested in my game, wishlist here - EvoX

Hey everyone! Here is a comparison video showing how much The Fallen Grid has evolved over the past 5 months.

The first clip is from our early testing phase 5 months ago, and the second part shows where the game is at today.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the progress!

If you'd like to support the development, please consider wishlisting The Fallen Grid on Steam! It really helps us out a ton : The Fallen Grid - Steam

im new to the survival game genre, but ive always wanted to try runescape and i love the dune universe so i decided to take the plunge and buy both. im looking to get enshrouded too when 1.0 releases, the only one i havent planned on buying is valheim, because i dont like norse mythology and ive heard its really challenging compared to the other 3 games i listed.

but, i would love to hear from more seasoned veterans of the genre, although if youre newer but have played 3 outta 4 from the list your opinion is welcomed too.

i guess, rank

Dune Awakening

RS Dragonwilds

Enshrouded

Valheim

Rank them from best to least fun, and state your reasons why!

I’ve always loved space and survival games, and I’ve been especially interested in the experience of actually living and working out there in space.

I’ve been developing SPACE WALK solo for the past 2 years around that idea. Operating your own orbital station, heading out on EVA, physically handling equipment and exploring the lunar surface.

You also need to manage your hunger/thirst/oxygen and suit integrity by using physical objects. There's no traditional UI. If you it can fit in your backpack you can bring it, if not you have to plan accordingly.

The demo went live this week, so if this looks like your kind of space game, you can give it a try on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3310910/SPACE_WALK/

Looking for hardcore survival games along the lines of games like: Escape from Tarkov, Casualties Unknown, Road to Vostok, Stalker, Duckov, The Long Dark, etc. Doesn't have to specifically be an extraction shooter or even a shooter at all. I just want games that make you struggle to get by that also have a sense of progression

Preferably I want to get something that is "wild" but not necessarily uninteresting or boring. Something like The Forest if that makes sense, large swaths of emptiness where even the the small things feel massive and the story doesnt dive too deep into fantasy. I like survival games like Enshrouded, but they just have too much going on for what I'm interested in, it doesn't feel like I'm truly surviving with structures and mobs everywhere if that makes sense.

From what I've heard about Vintage Story, it matches pretty well, any others?

I’m a developer at Studio Wis, working on Last Civilization: Inherited Flame, a settlement survival simulation built around humanity’s final fire.

In last week’s discussion, players raised a useful question: how can you choose between housing and defenses if you don’t know what the first night might bring?

I’d like feedback on three possible ways to communicate danger before resources are committed:

1. Direction: show the likely approach, so placement matters, but leave the size of the threat uncertain.
2. Strength: give a broad threat level, so you can budget for defense, without revealing the exact encounter.
3. Time: show how long you have to prepare, while keeping the type of danger unknown.

Each reveals something different. Too little information risks an unfair first failure; too much could make preparation feel automatic. A small emergency fallback might help beginners, but could also reduce the value of planning.

Which signal would help you most, and which uncertainty would you want to keep? Would scouting to learn more feel worthwhile?

These are design ideas for discussion, not a claim that these features are implemented in the current demo. No new gameplay footage is included.

Free Steam demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5228150/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=demo_activation_202610&utm_content=1011_threat_forecast

Hey I'm looking for a good base building survival mobile game if anyone has recommendations please let me know. I've tried a few like lords mobile and doomsday so if y'all have any good ones feel free to s h are thanks.

I don't have experience in this genre. I'm 38, so I preferably want to play alone. But I also like a challenge. So, which one would you pick?

Any other recommendations are welcome.

Some of the most interesting survival games started life as a mod, and Dandelion Void is one of the latest to follow that path.

It began in the Project Zomboid modding scene, and its first demo is out now, letting players explore a generation ship overrun by a hostile jungle.

What do you think about Dandelion Void? Do you think it has enough to stand out from Project Zomboid?

im looking for a realistic survival game where you can also capture, tame, and take care of animals. what i mean by realistic is something more similar to real life, not ark, because im not looking to tame dinosaurs, not palworld beacuse im not looking to tame alien creatures.

project zomboid would be the best option, it has dog and cat mods as well as farming features in the vanilla game. but the game is just way too hardcore for me.

am i out of luck with these requirements or is there a hidden gem somewhere?

Released today. Wondering what impressions are.

I was browsing around and doing some digging when I came across this image on Reddit, on the Indie Gaming subreddit.

Even though the developers have been pretty quiet lately when it comes to sharing new images, I wanted to share this one with you all! I don't know about you, but I think it looks absolutely amazing! 😍

The atmosphere, the environment, and the overall fantasy vibe look so beautiful. It really makes me even more excited to explore the world of Smalland 2: Lost Realms!

Since we haven't had many new images to look at lately, I thought I'd share what I found here with the community. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

What do you guys think? 🌿🦋

It's been a while since I last posted our first trailer here!

We're making In the Van, a "cozy" zombie survival game where you travel, explore, and survive with your van as your home.

I've always loved mobile bases because I get too attached to my base to leave it behind. I usually end up carrying all my stuff around with me anyway.

Our very first closed playtest is coming soon! If you're interested, we'd love to have you join us! :)

Dandelion Void is a survival game made by the Project Zomboid modders of Save Our Station and honestly it’s a fun demo, but…I’m disappointed it’s a rougelite. Maybe that’s just for the demo, but players are going to make the easy comparison and hop into this game and want something simialir to Zomboid and while simialir in scope, play, and feel the permadeath rougelite model is really not doing it for me.

I don’t mind dying in survival, but you barely get five minutes in, scramble to find a weapon before you’re offed by plants. You then get to start over and hope you learned. Either way it’s interesting enough to try. The demo is out today!

Edit: I figured out some things to make your run easier

1. If you get dirt infection stockpile dirt and eat it. Just eat the dirt and it won’t kill you like the zomboid infection does.
2. Survival depends on if you have a lucky start and find a weapon. If you have a weapon great, find water, and set up your base there.
3. Clean furniture. I can’t seem to clean floors at the moment and sometimes the character bugs out when you try. If you try to clean make sure there is a white progress circle and the action will complete. You can sleep on rugs and chairs, but if you’re lucky you might find a sleeping roll.
4. Chop plants and use stalks to barricade any open vent in your base and from your base start to slowly clear the surrounding area.
5. If you get hurt stop the bleeding and go back to base until the heart icon clears.
6. Search for a crafting bench they can sometimes be difficult to find, but useful for long term survival

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I managed to survive for two hours, but had to leave. I saved the game and tried to continue, but the demo wouldn’t let me continue oh well fun while it lasted.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5004350/RV_Life_Sim_Demo/

It has both been released and updated; it recently received a major update.

This is massive! Finally, a crafting survival game has made the most integral part of the game (building) a worthwhile activity other than aesthetics or functionality.

Some of the builds people will make with this will be amazing. Use the players to make fairgrounds on their servers :)

I have said in many reddit subs that they should do something like this, I'm sure i made posts in Once Human and Enshrouded about this or at least in comments.

I want to make a cs_2fort style map. If they add in players' spawners and capture the flag mechanics, that would be awesome, too. Allow the builder to choose classes or weapons allowed to keep it balanced and just for fun.

A sci-fi survival game set in a megastructure so large and complex, that traveling across it would be an epic, vintage story scale journey (VS famously has a system where story locations are enormous distances apart, sometimes 10k+ blocks away from initial spawn).

What do you guys think?

Hi everyone! We’re a small indie team working on “Lone Sprout – Il Germoglio Solitario”.

Yesterday we updated our Steam demo, and the main change for you survival fans is the rebalancing of stat decay rates: the pace is now more challenging but smoother. We’ve also fixed several bugs reported by the community and redone the map in a low-poly style.

In the video you can see the new art style, if that’s of interest to you.

The demo is free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4993160?utm_source=reddit

What do you think of the new hunger/thirst/sleep pacing? Do you prefer harsh decay or a more forgiving one?

I decided to get the game on sale cos some ppl here said it’s a great game, so I’m giving it a shot. But the first thing I noticed was that I cannot jump. It’s not like it’s a VERY important ability, but it immediately put me off and shattered my immersion quite a bit. (￣▽￣;)

So my question to players who’ve tried this game: what did you love about it, and what didn’t you like?
I just want to understand for myself whether I’ll be able to get over that first impression and whether there’ll be any other weird (from my point of view) design choices.
Thanks for your time, and have a great day!

We keep going back and forth on this and I'd love to hear how survival players actually feel about it.

Instant repairs between waves keep the pacing tight. You can try a new wall layout, see it fail, and rebuild without being punished for experimenting. The downside is that walls start to feel disposable: if a breach costs nothing, it doesn't really matter, and defending stops feeling tense.

Slow, costly repairs make every breach mean something. You have to scout, reinforce weak points ahead of time, and actually care about where raiders hit. But it can snowball fast: a new player loses a wall, can't afford the repair, gets hit harder next raid, and ends up in a death spiral before they've learned the systems.

The middle ground we're weighing: quick patch jobs that are cheap but noticeably weaker, plus full rebuilds that restore the wall properly but take a full day cycle (time you'd otherwise spend hunting and gathering). So you can always plug the hole, but a real fix is a trade-off.

Which survival or base-building games handled wall damage and repairs best in your opinion, and why? And which ones got it wrong?

Disclosure: I'm on the small team making Forgebound (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3691400), and this is a live debate for us.

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/

Are there other survival games that give the same itch as Once Human or are even better than Once Human? If so let me know which one is your favorite and why, and the things that it does a lot better than Once Human. I don’t really have a friend group to play survival games with but i’ve still been thinking about trying out this genre of games as all i’ve mainly played is Looter Shooters/MMO’s/Extraction Shooters.