Within minutes I'd crafted an assault rifle and more ammo than you'd find in an entire Fallout game, and then I got to shooting plenty of angry robots that kept appearing out of absolutely nowhere (they're either stealth masters or have some very wonky spawns).
What made Dysterra stand out was that it's actually a decent FPS as well. There's also a resource called Terrasite that you use to power your fancy sci-fi tech. You have to survive amidst the rubble, scavenging for metal, wood, and other materials that you can use to - you guessed it - build weapons and a base. Dysterraĭysterra places you on a ruined yet very sci-fi Earth at some point in the future. I did find the funny light ball hat that I'm wearing in the image above, though, and I love it. Even early on I was struggling to find enough trees and stones to make basic items. Usually in a survival game I’m always doing something in a survival game, that is collecting lots of little berries while hunting for more important resources, but Frozen Flame’s world is a bit sparse right now. It’s a loop that lets you feel a strong sense of progression, but ultimately things felt a little too spaced out in the demo. You level up by collecting Frozen Flame from regular enemies, which is a silly way of saying XP. Those bosses are quite tough, so you’ll need to spend time crafting better gear, levelling up, and generally survival-ing. Where Minecraft or 7 Days To Die are about surviving the night by building a shelter and strong weapons, Frozen Flame’s campaign is about hunting down bosses that have weird masks in more of a Valheim-y fashion. As you might expect, that made Frozen Flame much more objective-oriented than many other survival games. Very survival-y.įrozen Flame will have two modes, Campaign and Survival, but I could only play the campaign for now. The rest was lots of chopping trees, mining rocks, and running back to base to build another wall. Of course, I had to investigate, and can report that about 5 seconds of my time playing was spent as a bird.
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Frozen Flameįrozen Flame was shown at the PC Gaming Show, and the trailer showed the player flying around as a bird. I had to force myself to stop playing Above Snakes to test out other stuff on this list, and I want to find more time to play before the demo disappears at the end of Next Fest, as Above Snakes won't launch until early 2023. You'll need to think strategically so your world has what you need to manage your hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sanity. You get to choose the biome of the new tile, with each biome (like forest or lake) offering new materials, animals, and sometimes even NPCs that you can meet. This isn't just a fancy way to handle procedural generation, though. As you explore and gather resources to build the standard survival stuff like a campfire or a base, you will earn points that you can spend to generate a new tile on one side of the square. That’s because the game begins on one singular square tile that contains little more than a few trees and berry bushes. The residents of Corpse Creek shouldn't have expected any different.Īiyana must survive in this now dangerous land, and it seems pretty small at first. Understandably, a meteorite falls on Corpse Creek and causes a zombie apocalypse. It's a Western-inspired isometric survival game in which you play as a woman named Aiyana who lives on the outskirts of a town named Corpse Creek. Above SnakesĪbove Snakes is the best of the bunch, so I'm whacking it at the top of this list for everyone to see. As you might expect, I got subjected to some chugging framerates and a bit of body horror, but also found some great multiplayer shooting in Dysterra and terrific tile-placement in Above Snakes, which might just become a new personal favourite. Partly to help you all avoid the duds and partly to satisfy my own morbid curiosity, I trawled through this Summer's Steam Next Fest demo list to test out a bunch. You just never know what you might find, with some becoming the best thing since cubed diamonds and others getting left in a state of endless early-access jank. There's something so intriguing about a new survival game.