Nayati River
Send one squad to clear the roads send one to scavenge send one to build at camp send one in different zones to scout yea this is my jam love the game. Does have a learning curve that will frustrate a few players i my self took it as a challenge ( scratched my head for a bit trying to get my team to unload vehicle into warehouse side note they wont unload whats not clicked to unload open vehicle inventory and select items you want to transfer) . Vehicles is the key to survive do not use a slow van to clear the packs use a fast one and drift! takes practice but works use the back of the vehicle to take them out if a zed is behind you on the right side make a left and a right if its on the rear left do not drive away from them and then turn around and drive right into them that will kill the vehicle fast. Different survivors have different skills and buffs use those fast ones to break up a large pack of zed and let them chase you back to your vehicle to take out (thin the herd) speed 10 survivors cant be caught when running away.There is a lot to this game i barely made it to the industrial zone and sank 20 hours playing, remember to put on backpacks walkie talkies and head lamps when you find them and more cloths to increase your resistance and train when you learn how to make training buildings just know the dead will come for you at your camp when its big enough they will notice and you will have to defend from raids. Having a blast with this game i highly recommend.Just a side note where you start is not the only camp you can make, that one is not to good the warehouse is to far from the vehicles that need to be unloaded use the one in the farm lands.have fun i know i will.
– Real player with 172.4 hrs in game
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Great game. Somewhere between Project zomboid and state of decay. Took me awhile to get the hang of the User interface and basically not getting eaten. But if you stick with it you will see a unique zombie survival experience. Great resource management system. The Dev is very busy adding improvements and updates based on community questions and peeves.
Train your people! I waited to long to get my training going and making everyone capable of protecting themselves. One thing I love is once you have a well armed-trained group and a couple of armored vehicles, scavenging becomes something different. I send out a caravan of several armored vehicles and the game starts to feel like an RTS.
– Real player with 88.8 hrs in game
Hell of Men : Blood Brothers
This game is very interesting.
You will found classic mechanical (collect, build, train) but you found good new mechanicals like vehicles that you can have with the capture of strategic point, a cover system, etc… You can’t go with your army in one pack because one roquet can kill all of them!
It’s a challenge and I really like it. If you like RTS you can go !
– Real player with 35.2 hrs in game
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Very simple… so it’s a blast to play!
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Snow Survival
not to to bad, its not fully released so im sure it will improve much, if your for Survival games, then this will be fun for you.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
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I will give a positive review to this game, because it ok, even if it has a few problems.
1. I got a few random crashes, but the only persistent crash was after dying and pressing the “Retry” button.
2. Another thing that i have noticed is that the “Triangular Foundation” and the “Wooden Wall” are reversed in the menu. So if you craft a triangular foundation when you try to place it on the ground is actually a wall.
3. I did also noticed that the enemies you take out, they respawn from the place that you killed them.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
EndZ Village
This game is a city builder that’s awkward to navigate and very confusing to play. The tutorial tries to provide some instruction, but it gets stuck on steps or doesn’t say what to do next. My villages seem to stop building and crafting. In the end i gave up playing on day 83 with 310 villages as i could not seem to get anything crafting or building. The zombies would attack but i could not fight back as my supply line has stalled. It looks like the last update this game had was in Dec 2019 so not sure if this game has been abandoned or not. I hope not as its got potential to be a good game. If your thinking about buying this game i would hold off until the game has been updated and they have fixed a few more bugs.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
In this video I take a look at EndZ Village, a pixel art civilisation building game.
I had a really fun time trying this title. It adds the zombie twist to colony building games. It takes some trial and error to learn all the aspects as the tutorial abruptly ended on me but that allowed me to freestyle and figure things out myself which turned out to be fun anyway. You do need to get a few things right or you will just halt your game, like processed wood will run out if you don’t build a wood processing plant early and when you run out you can no longer build a wood processing plant because it requires processed wood to build, but it all adds to the fun and gives some replay. I played some more for my own pleasure, not recorded, and ran into power problems. I wasn’t able to figure that out yet but the game is still progressing and there is always the discussion groups on Steam if you really need to figure something out. I’m sure someone will help.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
No Man’s Island
No Man’s Island is an uncompromising wilderness Survival game.
Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style. Play your way as you unravel the mysteries of this strange land.
Key Features:
Uncompromising Survival & World Exploration:
No instructions. No help. No hand holding. Start with nothing and craft, hunt, research, farm and fight to survive.
Isometric game:
3D characters and odd creatures inhabiting a unique 3D world.
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Player controls (mouse, keyboard)
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Inventory system
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Crafting system
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Equipment (attached to character)
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Resource gathering
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Character attributes (health, hunger, thirst…)
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Animals
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Hunting and Fishing
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Farming (Sowing seeds, and plant/fruit growth)
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Eating and cooking
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Basic material (wood, grass, rock, …)
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Gathering tools (axe, pickaxe, fishing rod, …)
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Weapons/armor
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Food (berries, apples, nuts, meat, fish, …)
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Cooked food (fish & chips, skewer, bread…)
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Constructions (fire, shelter, house…)
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Environment (trees, bushes, rocks, floor patterns…)
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Farming plants (corn, potatoes, wheat…)
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Combat (against wild animals)
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Item durability and food spoilage
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Storage boxes (chest)
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Pets (follow, attack and dig behaviors)
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Bonus effects (Consumable or equipment that boost stats).
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Temperature, cold and heat sources.
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Game clock, day/night cycle
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Save/Load system
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5 biomes, with different enemies
The island contains 5 biomes.
Pre-Alpha: 2 Biomes. Difficulty * / Difficulty **
Alpha: 3 Biomes. Difficulty ** / Difficulty ***
Beta: 5 Biomes. Difficulty *** / Difficulty **** / Difficulty *****
Chernobylite
Another gem, played it in the native language with subtitles, a great and unexpected experience that initally seemed like a generic mashup of other genres. Well worth a review.
Off the top suggestion: Play with combat on hard, management on medium and survival on medium.
Gameplay/Gameplay-systems - 8/10
Gameplay is split up in some major directions, Survival, Combat, Base-management/building which together are influenced by a somewhat simplistic Skill/Ability system and a multi-part difficulty system.
– Real player with 70.0 hrs in game
The game play loop is pretty solid for a survival game, at least it kept me entertained for a while. But its definitely not horror, just survival. The main failing is the story. It tries so SO hard to be branching and have tons of options, but the game funnels you into the “correct” choice, so there is not roleplaying in this. If you do like I do and choose the “incorrect” option each time just to spite the system, it will essentially end up pretending like you chose the “correct” one, with no explanation. Ive read a few reviews so far that talk about how great the story is, no offence to them but you can essentially be assured that anyone who thought the story was great or complex is under 15 years of age. This is painfully sub-mediocre time travel/multi dimension storytelling. And I think too many younger ppl are too easily wowed by gibberish. But my main complaint for the game is the protagonist you play as. You, the player, will figure out whats going on long before your character does, and so you will want to make choices that reflect what you know, but you are forced again and again to make decisions based on what your character knows. And technically if you do things a certain way like I did, your character ends the game without figuring it out. Its frustrating. But, the game loop is pretty fun. The building is like fallout-4-settlement-building-lite. There’s some npc managment and some semi interesting story points. You could do worse for a game, but you wont remember this long after you finish it.
– Real player with 36.5 hrs in game
Isle Of Spirits
Pros
-interesting graphics style
-proceduarally generated islands
Cons
-expensive for almost no content (all you can do is collect resources and craft a few items)
-no story line or lore around the spirits
-spend most of your time trying not to starve and chopping trees
-your bed, chests, and house get destroyed by tornadoes almost daily
-you will run out of food within a day and spend the rest of your game trying to not starve instead of being able to progress
-meals and cooked foods give almost no food so you will always be hungry
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Isle of Spirits is a pretty hardcore survival game that’s set on a remote island. The goal here, in addition to surviving from day to day, is to craft a raft and escape from said remote island. The game has no wildlife to speak of, but if you’re caught in the dark at night, then you’ll be attacked by some invisible force. In some ways, this aspect of the game is similar to Don’t Starve.
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Watch me play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aGgFPxUTH0
Died twice here - once because I wanted to “gather water” from the pool and apparently, water insta-killed my character; and second, I ran out of food.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Magicademia
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1302150/Magicademia/
Welcome to the enchanted lands where magic is real and flourishing! Build your very own magical academy from the ground, hire the best and the worst teachers that the magical world has to offer. Manage disasters and celebrate your victories in this brand new enchanting tycoon game!
Build your school
Create the magic school of your dreams! Use money and resources to create new rooms and hire staff, but be wary of trouble and irresponsible adults ruining your establishment. Solve the oddest mysteries and help your students achieve their best (or at least a pass) at school!
Build rooms and customise them to your heart’s content with just a few clicks in our creation tool! There are over 10 types of classrooms there to be created, but watch out for overcrowded classes and teachers lacking the skill to tame a hoard of students!
Do not worry! Every teacher and student will learn in due time! You can also pause your game and just hire a new banch of less incompetent ones! Or speed up the game and manage incoming disasters on the go! You (literally!) have all the time in this world!
Hire the staff
There is a big variety of teachers you can hire in your brand new school. Their abilities, skills and teaching power will determine the fate of their students and the amount of… misadventures they might have during the class. But not to worry, with every lesson they learn something on their own and they come closer and closer to becoming the best teacher!
Not only the teachers are vital to life in the academy, you need crystal engineers who will manage and fix your power sources. There are also janitors who will take care of the mess after a failed alchemy lesson or a ghost roaming the school.
Your trusty staff will take care of the most unusual occurrences that may happen in your school and celebrate graduations of your students with the proper fanfare!
Meet your students
Your students are not only the source of your pride, but also your income! The more students the more money, but can you manage that hoard of teenagers?
Every student has a different set of skills and dreams, so having a lot of classes will let them flourish! Your best students will become your pride and joy (and also a great source of school’s prestige)!
Let them study day and night, but do not forget to build dormitories so they can also have some rest, and enjoy watching their first attempts at wizardry!
Students are divided into classes by colour so it is easy to recognise where is which class and how are the students by the neatness of their uniforms.
Let the magic guide you!
