Staying Alive is more than a fashionable Bee Gees song from 1977. It takes a lot of effort to keep humans alive constantly, but in many cases it becomes apparent only when the comfort of modern life fades away.
Good night while dodging food, shelters, elements, and securing 10 people who hate you is challenging but fun. This list of cruelly realistic survival games is here to drive that point home.
What makes each of these games special is Try to play as realistically as possible to pay attention to detail from developers.
Some of them directly replicate realistic mechanisms, while others strive for realistic results.
8 Survival: Young People’s Fountain
From shipwrecks to Eldorado
Let’s start with the bad news: you were wrecked in the Caribbean. That’s not great at all. Now, on the good stuff, you are a 16th century European explorer, so your average lifespan wasn’t that great in the first place.
As the name suggests, this game sets you in search of the mythical fountain of young people, but you are not exactly surrounded by friends and family there.
The new world comes with a burnt tropical sun, lots of fruits, and even more animals. Some of them are friends, some are food, then you have predators that will end your adventure early on.
Survival: Young People’s Fountain There are 11 islands for you to explore, with a variety of terrain and threats. It’s a great mix of deadly Caribbean horror and obvious secret excitement, but in a slightly less brutal package than the other entries.
7 Long dark
Baby, it’s cold outside
Bush flying is cool. It allows you to reach the most remote corners of the earth while you have an easy way to go home. Of course, this system is only lifted if the aircraft is still functional. Mackenzie isn’t.
Long dark Throw you deep into the hinterlands of Canada during the winter. For a short time in the daytime, there is no food around, and the wolves will make your life hell there. Still, when you warm up with fire at the end of a long day, it hits you: this is so peaceful and beautiful.
The game has a lot of story content you can dig into, and writing makes it valuable, but there is a systematic approach to survival. Long dark It’s very special.
If you’re just for the survival part, you can purchase open-ended modes individually for about half the price of a full game. That being said, having a compelling story above the survival mechanic adds more flavor.
6 Deeply stuck
Sea, sky, land
Imagine the world Lost In the end, it’s not nonsense, it just survived the crash of an airplane on an abandoned island.
Deeply stuck It’s special as it is the only survival game on this list and will unfold in the air, sea and land. In addition to trying not to die on the island, you can go for sails or relaxing swims in the Pacific Ocean, or you can collectively bring out the ultra-lightweight to get a better view from the air.
Survival dynamics of Deeply stuck It’s ruthless, but interesting. It’s very easy to inject for 4 hours to build a shelter and create a great game plan.
Unlike most games, Nutritional part of Deeply stuck I will actively punish you for a big eater. Certainly, you want to raise your energy and hydration levels, but filling with coconut water, for example, can give you diarrhea, as it can be worse than when you started.
Some Deeply stuck Players resent the developers have moved to making Strand Deep 2 Instead of expanding the base game. The ethics and optics are for separate articles, but as is the case now, Deeply stuck Despite its flaws, it is a very realistic survival game.
5 Grey Zone Battle
Open World Tactical Medicine
Becoming a mercenary on a tropical island after a disaster is not for the faint hearted person.
During a night reconnaissance mission Grey Zone BattleI made a navigation error and was shot badly.
The bandage stopped when one of the wounds stopped bleeding, but there was a fundamental organ damage that required surgery to fix it. When I got the courage to get the pain of untreated injuries outweighed my short supply of painkillers.
I finally reached the landing zone and stepped over a kilometre at night while I looked doubled from pain and nausea until the helicopter pulled me back to base camp.
You know no real despair from finding one soda in a corpse to jumping on joy, only enough to keep you alive for a few more minutes in the tropical sun.
Grey Zone Battle Although it looks like an overt plunder shooter, the health system is the best in any survival game.
I need it To manage painkillers, antibiotics, tourniquets, blood transfusions and emergency surgeries to survive a large open world. All you need is to put you in a coma state or just one bullet to kill you completely.
4 Project zomboid
Realistic apocalyptic house
Zombies, my realistic game? That’s more likely than you think!
Project zomboid It has established itself as a gritty little game that doesn’t become a zombie dinner, but it is in one of the best sets of survival mechanics to date. In fact, they are so good that many players run the game with zombies turned off.
With your cozy improvised farm and juxtaposition of emotions at home from adrenaline chased by a horde of zombies, Project Zomboid becomes a unique emotional experience.
What really makes this game special is how realistic workflows are translated into survival mechanics. Little things like having a go bag nearby and sustainable farming can make a big difference to the gameas they do in life.
Similarly, getting into the car for a spin means you have to drive carefully, as crashing can result in serious injuries even if the car is off successfully. Do you have flat tires? Find a jack, wrench, or spare.
In some respects, Project zomboid Your breathing is now a manual action, but like an annoying friend who tells you in a cool, interactive way.
3 Days
Zombies, hunger, and outside people
If you avoid all the zombie apocalypse, Days It is the most realistic open world survival shooter ever created, and is not nearby either. What started as a modest thing Alma 2 The MOD is currently a standalone giant who casually relaxes at the top of the Steam player count chart.
What is being made Days What’s special is that every little thing you come across will affect the way you play. You have many options as to how you want to survive.
There are plenty of supplies in town, but there are also plenty of zombies and players. Sometimes they work with you and sometimes shoot you in your head.
Of course, you can always disappear into the forest. Hunting your own food and living from the land is fine until you get sick or you can’t find anything to eat.
There’s little to do other than staying aliveBut the depth of the survival simulation is like not running out of what you need to do.
There’s nothing better than sitting by a campfire. As you plan for the next day, you wonder if this is your last night.
2 My war
Someone will die. Who do you choose?
The siege of Sarajevo was one of the most cruel events of the Bosnian War. nevertheless My war It will be held in the fictional city of Pogoren, and the developers are blatant about inspiration from Sarajevo.
Food stops hunger, medicine stops illness, and bandages heal injuries. It’s easy isn’t it? The problem is that all of this is very lacking. That’s where the game makes you question your humanity.
During my first performance, I told myself not to resort to stealing from others trying to survive. As the little child in my shelter was about to collapse from hunger, I broke my promise and raided the house of a stranger for food.
“It was for survival,” I said. There was no alternative. A few days later, if things were desperate again, I decided to attack another house. The owner shot me, and my journey was over.
Should I blame him? Well, if he hadn’t taken that shot, he would probably have been starved. Maybe I would have killed him myself. No, I think he did the right thing. “That was for survival,” right?
After getting the grip of the game, things become easier and easier to optimize, but hopeless.
At some point you need to make tough choices about who is alive and who is not. There’s nothing right or wrong here either. I hope you can live along any path you have chosen.
1 Green Hell
If anthropologist disappears in the forest…
Werner Herzog’s 2006 war epic Rescue nightthe prisoners say that the real prison is the jungle. Green Hell It drives that point more violently than any other game.
The game will search for your missing wife and throw you deep into the Amazon forest. The Amazon is full of wildlife and resources, For all that can save you, it feels like another ten will kill you.
One of the outstanding features of Green Hell It’s just how much work it takes to stay sane, and the consequences of ignoring your mental health are disastrous.
Like an extended stay in the jungle, Green Hell There are moments of quiet and relaxation intertwined with brushes that are equipped with death and traumatic experiences.
The two campaigns offer solid gameplay of 30-50 hours, but the game also has an infinite, completely open-ended mode. This is a true test of survivalists.
