Miasmata

Miasmata

You awaken on a tropical island. Your name is Robert Hughes, your hands are bloody, and all you know is that you are an “exile.”

You soon realize that you are in bad shape. You can only run for a short distance before you start huffing and puffing, and you cannot swim at all. If you start moving too quickly downhill and fall, you’ll develop a fever, for which you’ll need to create medication. If you don’t drink enough water, you’ll develop a fever. If you don’t rest enough, you’ll develop a fever. You have The Plague, a disease for which you must find the Cure.

Real player with 60.2 hrs in game


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I’m absolutely loving this game. I’ve uncovered just over half the map and it’s been an amazing journey. This is the thinking mans - and womans - kind of game. Plan your trips, watch your terrain, think about what you are doing, if you go wandering blind you’re in for getting seriously lost.

The cartography system is marvelously innovative and once it dawned on me how this actually works I’ve been searching out landmarks to uncover even the smallest piece of the map.

Finding that one plant you’ve been looking for feels like a massive accomplishment - the map is large! And you did it by using your wits and your compass.

Real player with 42.2 hrs in game

Miasmata on Steam

Lost Away

Lost Away

You are stranded, deep inside the wilderness of a mysterious planet. Use all of your tools, tech and skills to set a base camp, discover the planet’s previously undiscovered secrets and return to Earth alive.

Stay oxidized: On this planet, oxygen won’t be taken for granted. With little breathable air from the atmosphere, a lack of oxygen will remain a constant foe throughout your journey. Stay ahead, continue breathing and you will become the king of the jungle.

In order to survive, you will have to know your surroundings. Plan your route, use navigation points and discover the deep and gorgeous world around you.

Everything you find can prove useful if you are creative enough - combine, experiment, and master the skill of crafting.

Explore this alien world in the search of materials, use your newly crafted tools to build a mighty shelter, and increase your chances of surviving the night.

There’s more than one way to survive hunger. Make your way through the jungle, and hunt wild and strange animals, or stick to the flora, grow and harvest your very own alien fruit and vegetable from the ground below your feet.

Develop new manufacturing technologies, repair the badly damaged spaceship and return to Earth. Don’t be fooled though, you’re in for a long and arduous journey.

Use the sandbox experience just to have fun and play at your own pace. Focus on discovering secrets and ancient alien locations, or create a comfortable habitat and make yourself at home.


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Lost Away on Steam

Marooned

Marooned

I made a review and play through of the game.

play though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d2fEnd5G2Q&t=1s

Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elI0o4LJ8Iw&t=1s

for Mika: I have suggestions in review video.

Real player with 9.9 hrs in game


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It’s a fun game about being stranded on a desert island.

Some of the mechanics take a minute to get used to but on the whole I like the game, it’s very chill

Real player with 7.4 hrs in game

Marooned on Steam

Space Captain McCallery - Episode 3: The Weaponmaster’s Challenge

Space Captain McCallery - Episode 3: The Weaponmaster’s Challenge

The Weaponmaster’s Challenge

In the lawless reaches of the galaxy known as the Renegade Sector

Space Pirate Captain McCallery needs a Weaponmaster to round out his new crew, and he knows there’s only one man for the job: Mark Two-Blasters. A former member of his crew, Mark Two-Blasters left a year before the rest of the crew mutinied, due to disagreements with some of the other crewmembers. He took a shuttle and flew to the planet Ograr III, one of the most dangerous planets in the sector, to spend time training in isolation.

Ograr III, a planet of prehistoric beasts. Ograr III, a planet of thick forests and high mesas. Ograr III, where Mark Two-Blasters has made his home for the past year.

In this 3D Action-Adventure game, McCallery will have to explore a dangerous world, battle prehistoric monsters, survive off the land, and search for his old ally. With how things left off, Captain McCallery knows that Mark Two-Blasters won’t make himself easy to find. If McCallery wants Two-Blasters to rejoin his crew, he will have to prove himself in The Weaponmaster’s Challenge

This episode of Space Captain McCallery is a self-contained adventure and can be played without having played the first episode. However, if you want to start at the beginning, the first episode can be found here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/852900/Space_Captain_McCallery__Episode_1_Crash_Landing/

Explore a Strange Alien World

Playing as Captain McCallery, you will travel through thick forests, rocky cliffs and dark caves. Pay attention to your surroundings, as danger lurks behind every corner. This world is full of hidden paths and secrets to reward exploration.

Consume Alien Plants

The Captain needs to eat to survive! Be on the lookout for plants which you can consume to regain your energy. Food items can have a variety of other effects, ranging from restoring health and increasing your dash length, to hallucinations. Explore your environment to find rare and beneficial items!

Battle Alien Monsters

The game features fast-paced lock-on combat. Dash around your foes, dodging their attacks. Use your trusty laser gun to blast away at your enemies, or conserve your ammo by punching and throwing rocks. You’ll be up against a variety of alien beings, including multiple boss fights.

Survival Mode

For those who want an extra challenge, there’s Survival Mode. Survival Mode removes checkpoints from the game, and also removes enemy and item respawning. This mode requires caution and careful item-use in order to make it through.

Space Captain McCallery - Episode 3: The Weaponmaster's Challenge on Steam

Winter Survival Simulator

Winter Survival Simulator

What was supposed to be a nice winter hike in the Mount Washington State Park with friends, turned into a dire situation. You are left alone to fight for your survival. With only marginal supplies you have to fight off of the cold, the wildlife and find your way to an abandoned ranger station in hope to be able to call for help.

While you haven’t suffered any injuries during the fall, you lost your backpack and hence most of your gear and supplies. You will need to find shelter, find some food and rest. Then it’s about making your way to an old ranger station to call for rescue.

Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? It is, except for the supplies you are going to need for the trip, the weather, the freezing cold, not to mention the wildlife. The goal of the game is to survive. To prepare enough to make the trip to the ranger station and to deal with all the surprises along the journey.

Hunt or be hunted. You have no rifle and there is no combat. If you encounter wolfs or even a bear, stay away and run. You won’t be able to kill a bear with a knife, it’s not the movies.

What you can do is be clever about the wildlife and set traps. You might even be able to find some traps hunters left behind and use them to maintain a safe perimeter or to hunt smaller animals for food. Tracking, establishing the best spot and being patient is what the hunt will be about.

Cold, thirst, hunger and exhaustion are the four major factors you have to worry about. It doesn’t however end there. Injuries are another one and there is the weather. Spending the night in the freezing cold without any shelter is akin to a death sentence and trying to go out in a snow storm isn’t any better either. Don’t forget, weather in the mountains changes quickly and is unpredictable. You have to be prepared at all times.

You are not the first one person in this area. There have been many before you. More than a century ago some even lived here. If you explore your surroundings there is a good chance they may have left something behind that will still be useful to you. And while building a shelter on your own is certainly an option, it is a lot better and safer to adapt something that already exists.

You could find an old hunter lodge and fix it up to offer decent shelter and a base of operations for you to prepare, gather supplies and food and even hunt. You are going to have a long trip ahead of you. The better you prepare, the less risky it will be.

The rescue isn’t going to be instant. Despite modern equipment and well trained mountain rescue personnel, you are far away and their helicopter can’t take off in any weather. Between you calling for help and help actually arriving might take even a couple of days. Additional time you have to survive in the bitter cold at Mount Washington.

Winter Survival Simulator on Steam

Computer Physics Simulator 2020

Computer Physics Simulator 2020

wish it could be playable for some entertainment value

Real player with 3.9 hrs in game

i cant even play because added the best graphics so my computer cant work its super lagi on my computer can you please lower the graphics please

Real player with 1.1 hrs in game

Computer Physics Simulator 2020 on Steam

Far North

Far North

Far North is a sandbox co-op procedural open world survival game with changing seasons.

Set in the deep North your survival depends solely on your ability to thrive.

Build and expand settlements in order to brave through the changing seasons ranging from beautiful summer days to fierce winter nights.

Venture through alluring and treacherous terrain where you explore and harvest resources used for crafting new clothes, tools, structures and more.

Survive the changing seasons

Experience the wilderness with four beautifully crafted seasons and the unique challenges that come with them. Out here you’ll be tracking your Hunger, Thirst, Stamina, and Temperature as you struggle to balance resources with the energy needed to obtain them. Find food, upgrade your settlement, stock up on supplies and craft new clothing. Preparation is key here in order to survive the game-altering seasons. Every decision you make will have a direct impact on your life, so be careful because that decision might just be your last.

Explore the North

Nature is calling, the diverse terrain and its inhabitants are beatiful but dangerous. Utilize all that nature has to offer by harvesting resources wherever you can find them but beware of the wild life and weather. A long journey into the wild can spell the end of you if you don’t come prepared.

Build and expand your settlements

Expand your simple settlement into a beautiful farm! Domesticate animals, grow crops, start an orchard and more! Challenge your architerctural skills by building to survive the elements in style.

Crafting

You will need to scavenge, hunt, forage and craft your way through the wilderness. Find new resources and use them to improve your tools, structures and clothing.

Improve your character

Your character is unique. Go from a beginner to a master of cooking, wood cutting, farming, exploring and much more as you shape your own journey!

Key Features:

  • Massive Procedural world

  • Game-changing Seasons

  • Dynamic Weather

  • Co-op

  • Exploration

  • Cooking

  • Farming

  • Building

  • Crafting

  • Skill System

  • Harvestable Trees

  • Animals

  • Domesticate Animals

Far North on Steam

First Light

First Light

First Light is a first-person survival psychological horror game tinted with body horror, set in a remote cabin in the dead of winter. Explore the cabin and its surroundings, examining items and collecting cassettes to piece together events of the story. Told from two perspectives of the past and the present, you need to know both to survive the powerful forces hunting you.

Play as the SAR officer, Eli, sent to rescue a distress call sent three days ago. Live the past events as Ben, while his fiancee Julia searches for her grandfather, whom she hasn’t heard from in weeks. Meanwhile, an ancient creature of famine and gluttony stalks silently in the wind and snow.

The fates of all involved unfold throughout the night, while Eli must prepare to escape at the first touch of dawn.

  • Explore the cabin and its surroundings for clues.

  • Collect cassettes to tell the story from another view.

  • Outwit and outrun the creature hunting you.

  • Survive until the first light of dawn.

First Light is heavily influenced by spooky greentext stories, innawoods happenings, and a lifetime of lore and love of creature features. A big special thanks to Chass and his curated content for the spark that led to the creation of the game. Please check him out if you like stories like this, or to get an idea of what First Light’s roots are.

First Light on Steam

Perdition

Perdition

One thing is perpetually obvious while playing through Perdition - it was crafted with passion and incredible attention to detail in regards to player experience.

A prime example of this is how you can’t just hold on to your favorite gun for the entire duration of the game. Once you’re out of ammo, you have to retrieve guns from fallen enemies, and what you get might not always be your first choice. You’re in the middle of combat, and suddenly your SMG is replaced with a grenade launcher, and you as the player are forced to improvise and adapt your combat style.

Real player with 1.7 hrs in game

Wow, for just a couple of people this game is really enjoyable. Combat is buttery smooth, one could say “Doom-esc” style combat with its own unique flavor.

It runs flawlessly, no stutters, frame drops, bugs, or anything of the sort. Well done.

Sadly not really any options are there, however the fact that the game is free and has a silky smooth experience makes up for it. The environment and ambiance with the music is on point. Just the little things such as a clean and non-repetitive soundtrack make the game that much more enjoyable.

Real player with 0.7 hrs in game

Perdition on Steam

Silk

Silk

Very nice game! Hope the developers will update and expand it though

+Huge open world for hours of exploring

+Simple mechanics of gameplay - easy to learn in minutes

+History notes makes journey immersive

+Handful of ways to beat the game

-No background/ambient music so it is pretty quiet

-Some pieces of map are empty

-No marching armies, caravans etc.

Real player with 34.9 hrs in game

Silk is a compelling adventure strategy experience - not a genre name you see very often, and what a shame. The importance of picking a sensible route can be paramount, the threat of storms, raiders, wild animals and dead ends feel real and intense, and the feeling you get when you realise you have hit a dead end and have to turn back is a marvellous frustration.

It also means the satisfaction you get when you bring a caravan of silk back home is magnificent. The smalls joys of exploring a world in which every step matters, finding special locations, taking hidden treasure and fighting each small battle are immense. The feeling when your advisors reach a high enough skill level to start to really make the most of your surroundings is superb. A great adventure strategy title, definitely worth your time.

Real player with 14.2 hrs in game

Silk on Steam