Survival Games

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I didn't see a topic for this.

I got The Forest, have played about five hours, asked for a refund and it got denied. They never denied refunds like that before, so I suspect it was because I've asked for them frequently in the past.

Does this garbage actually get good? The problem I have with it at the moment is that it's very slow and not scary. Days drag on forever. Nights drag on forever, and night will fall long before you can actually go to bed in the game (then immediately get woken up again because a mutant stirred somewhere way off in the woods). Cutting trees and carrying logs is tedious.

It's a shame, because a lot of it feels like what (with less jank) my dream Ancestors/Far Cry: Primal hybrid would be. Making tools from raw materials, navigating an environment hunter-gathering, and skirmishing with tribals across forested landscape. It would be awesome if I was fighting cavemen or Indians. This is basically cavemen, but they're fucking morons, they don't seem to have actual weapons like bows or spears, they don't use any tactics (just scurrying around like they're on meth), I actually saw one climb a tree and jump at me which blew my mind but they won't even climb a rope to get into a treehouse. No boats or anything to pursue you on water.

Game just kind of seems like garbage overall, can't really see why everybody sucked its dick so much.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Have you been checking out the caves and stuff? I felt like that was the strongest part of the game, for me. Most of the survival stuff itself wasn't too interesting, but spelunking down there, getting lost, surrounded by a bunch of nasty shit like it's The Descent, that was way more intense than the stuff above-ground, watching the enemies scramble about during the day-time.

 

[The Early 2000s]

I fell for The Forest meme, too. I never managed to get to a point where it picked up for me, personally. Tough luck, welcome to the club.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Have you been checking out the caves and stuff? I felt like that was the strongest part of the game, for me. Most of the survival stuff itself wasn't too interesting, but spelunking down there, getting lost, surrounded by a bunch of nasty shit like it's The Descent, that was way more intense than the stuff above-ground, watching the enemies scramble about during the day-time.

I died once and made it most of the way out of that cave before giving up in frustration. And having gotten a feel for it I wanted to restart from scratch. I think I kind of boned myself on fun because on the first playthrough I intentionally roleplayed naive idiot (go straight into the woods, blunder around) and on the second I made a beeline for the houseboat and then went far away, getting deep into enemy country looking for a FUCKING POT TO BOIL WATER and finally giving up to turn back around to the plane. If it was Ancestors I could just drink the dirty water and die slowly of poison. Then I gave up in disgust.

I did hear people say that the caves are the most accurate depiction of cave systems in real life, which is to say horrifying, disorienting nightmares. In fact, part of the problem with night in this game is it's actually accurate, you can't see shit in front of you to do anything. And unlike Don't Starve, I don't really feel like I've got errands to run at night. Don't Starve nights were excellent, very atmospheric, very bleak, but they didn't drag on so long that it felt like it was wasting my time.

I went ahead and looked up the creepies and they don't really inspire me just to look at them. Lame. I think a person could make a cooler survival game out of cryptids (like having chupacabras and mothmen zooming around).

I fell for The Forest meme, too. I never managed to get to a point where it picked up for me, personally. Tough luck, welcome to the club.

The last game I bought, for $10 (this was $5), was Ghost Recon Wildlands and I think both of these have a similar problem in that their supposed to be fun in co-op, people also claim they're fun in singleplayer, but they're not.

Is there another one that's any good? I know that you've got Long Dark for realistic subarctic, Green Hell for this same crap but Amazon instead of horror themed, Grounded for honey I shrunk the kids, Raft for oceans (I like island-hopping stuff, but it looks very aimless), some other piece of shit coming up for waterworld, Project Zomboid for (isometric) zombies, and probably a few others I don't remember.

Ancestors is an awesome proto-human survival game.

This shits in my cereal because I can see glimpses of a much better game.

 

[batterybee]

Steams refund policy is: if you have less than 2 hrs played and have owned the game for less than 2 weeks they will almost all ways give a refund no questions asked.
From talking to people it seems like they will almost never give you a refund if you dont meet that criteria.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Steams refund policy is: if you have less than 2 hrs played and have owned the game for less than 2 weeks they will almost all ways give a refund no questions asked.
From talking to people it seems like they will almost never give you a refund if you dont meet that criteria.

I could swear I've gotten ones before that were over that. Recently.

 

[Flatline]

Making tools from raw materials, navigating an environment hunter-gathering, and skirmishing with tribals across forested landscape. It would be awesome if I was fighting cavemen or Indians.

Conan Exiles may fit the bill.

 

[Uranium Sundae]

The Forest was one of these games you'd get into by peer pressure of your friends and enjoy the janky multiplayer hijinks. I have fond memories of these gaming sessions but by itself the game is nothing to write home about. The cannibalistic mutant sentinelese were creepy.