Survival Games

[Dark Drakan]

Found this to be a good read last night, detailing the current state and future plans for the extremely popular dinosaur survival title Ark.

Ark: Survival Evolved is currently the fifth most played game on Steam. It’s not the first early access survival game to reach such heights, but so far it’s one of the few to have maintained it. At this year’s Gamescom 2015 RockPaperShotgun spoke to co-creative director Jesse Rapczak about what he feels Ark is doing different, their release and expansion plans, how you foster a less sociopathic survival game playerbase, and why his game is so grindy...

The Future Plans Popular Grind Of Ark: Survival Evolved​

 

[Dark Drakan]

Open world survival horror with crazy ambitions made by six people​

 

[Gikoku]

Open world survival horror with crazy ambitions made by six people​

Oh whoa, this came outta nowhere. I really like the visual aesthetics it's got here, reminds me a lot of Mass Effect's art style. Looks awesome for a six-man team, the animations could use a little bit more work but other than that I'm really impressed. Definitely keeping it on my radar.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Oh whoa, this came outta nowhere. I really like the visual aesthetics it's got here, reminds me a lot of Mass Effect's art style. Looks awesome for a six-man team, the animations could use a little bit more work but other than that I'm really impressed. Definitely keeping it on my radar.

Still early in development so yeah the animations aren't the best but overall it's style is really nice. Reminds me of Bioshock a lot too.

 

[Dark Drakan]

ARK: SURVIVAL EVOLVED XBOX ONE COMING DECEMBER 16TH

The dinosaur-hunting open-world survival epic ARK: Survival Evolved has gotten off to a fast start. For many of its 2.4 million Early Access customers on PC, it is the dinosaur game they've been wanting their whole lives. ARK was also announced for consoles (console and PC final versions are due out in June 2016), but on Xbox One it's getting the Early Access treatment very soon thanks to the Xbox Game Preview program announced at E3 earlier this year. The XGP edition of the game will be available on December 16 for $34.99.​

 

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Ark: Survival Evolved Xbox One Getting Two-Player Local Split-Screen

In news that will surely please couch co-op fans, Studio Wildcard has announced that the soon-to-be-released Xbox One version of dinosaur survival game Ark: Survival Evolved will support local two-player split-screen. Online split-screen is not part of the developer's plans, only local.

Unfortunately, split-screen won't be ready for Ark's release on December 16. Instead, it will come through an update sometime early in 2016. This feature will be exclusive to the Xbox One version, at least for the time being after its release, Studio Wildcard told us.

Although fans will have to wait until 2016 for Ark's split-screen mode, the Xbox One version will support another unique feature right out of the gate tomorrow.

Players can use a second Xbox One to host their own 50-plus player server. Of course, you'll need to have a second Xbox One for this, but as Rapczak points out, hosting a server would normally require "an expensive PC server and a lot of management headaches."

Xbox One players will also get special limited edition "Founder's content," such as skins and more. Check out this post for a full rundown of what to expect.
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Vigor is a new survival game from the studio behind Arma and DayZ

Vigor is a new survival game from Bohemia Interactive, makers of the Arma 3 infantry simulation and DayZ, the progenitor of the modern survival shooter. The game is coming exclusively to Xbox One through the Game Preview early access program later this year.

The third-person shooter takes place in an alternate history 1991, where humanity is battling back from a devastating nuclear war in Central Europe. Set in Norway, early assets show massive mountains and sweeping vistas. The game appears to be instance-based, with engagements for groups of eight to 16 players. The game will include crafting as well as some form of base building. Other screens show a mix of NATO and Warsaw Pact weaponry as well as melee weapons like hunting knives.

Bohemia Interactive said that Vigor will launch with a for-pay Premium Founders Pack some time this year to access the Game Preview beta, and transition to a free-to-play model in 2019 and beyond.​

 

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Devolver's multiplayer prison survival gameshow Scum launches on Steam Early Access in August

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Scum is an online multiplayer survival game set in a brutal and bizarre open world where prisoners fight for the amusement of spectators, making them contestants and stars of a sort. As with Hunger Games, your prowess will attract sponsors, who'll give powerful gifts, and you can even be resurrected by the show's producers if you die.

Scum is made by Croatian team Gamepires with the help of Serious Sam developer Croteam. It's powered by Unreal Engine 4.

 

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SCUM launched in early access on August 29th

Although the review scores currently sit at mixed (not abnormal for an early access survival game) most of its player base have been praising it for already having a more solid base than most that have been available for years and saying its one of the best survival games available already at this early stage.

It has already received quite a few patches and they are currently working on optimisation and server lag. I have been watching videos of it on Youtube and its looking pretty good for one of the many early access survival games, I think its doing enough to stand out from most of the others already & is currently sitting 12th in most played on Steam list with 16,772 players. Might get it myself when its a little further down the line of development but for £15.49 people have been saying that is a very fair price point for this stage of its development cycle.

DOWNLOAD ON STEAM HERE​