May 26, 2021
Tim and Joel finalize their thoughts - for now - about the survival genre.
We are shifting to a new format! In future we will take hiatuses to prepare for genre/thematic groupings. The first hiatus begins now - we will return in a few weeks to talk about colony builder and narrative strategy games.
Games mentioned:
May 13, 2021
Last week, Tim and Joel asked: What are we Surviving for? This week we look at a different kind of survival game, Space Engineers. The focus here is less on the immediate human elements of survival and more on resource gathering, building and eventually interplanetary travel. We then look at gameplay dynamics that are...
May 6, 2021
Run, fight, craft, build, eat, survive. Cooperate or kill. But why? Joel and Tim begin to look at games that answer this question satisfactorily, and ones that don't.
Games mentioned:
- Dwarf fortress
- Valheim
- DayZ
- Rust
- Fallout
- Deus Ex
- The Forest
- Ark: Survival Evolved
- Subnautica
- Eco
- Neo Scavenger
- The...