UnReal World

No. Let's not be ridiculous. But there are so many examples of bad survival games that it’s important to remember the good ones. So that’s what we are doing on the latest RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. We're breaking stones over the heads of rubbish survival games, but cooking, salting and eating the delicious ones. Adam wraps himself up in The Long Dark but…

Tagged with charlie cleveland, feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Celeste, Dead State, Dying Light, Frostpunk, I Am Alive, Project Zomboid, Rain World, Slay the Spire, Subnautica, The Forest, The Long Dark, The Red Strings Club, The Solus Project, UnReal World.

Game Swap is a new series in which one person recommends another a game they might like. This week, Adam suggests that Alec plays wilderness survival roguelike UnReal World [official site], still in active development after a quarter of a century. Adam: Everyone enjoys roguelikes these days, or at least they refer to some of the things they enjoy as roguelikes. There was a time…

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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. This has nothing to do with the popular FPS series, Unreal. It's much more interesting. UnReal World has been a mainstay on various hard drives that I've owned since I first discovered it at some point in the mid-nineties. The first release was…

Tagged with Erkka Lehmus, free games, Have You Played, Sami Maaranen, Survival Week, UnReal World.

In early 2012, a mod for Arma II called DayZ was released. Two-and-a-half years later, its odd mixture of multiplayer, horror, and a need for players to keep themselves fed and watered, has given rise to the survival genre. Let's celebrate that genre.

Tagged with Life is Feudal, survival games, Survival Week, 7 Days To Die, DayZ, Don't Starve, Eidolon, Minecraft, Rust, Salt, The Forest, The Long Dark, UnReal World, Unturned.