Survive the Nights
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EARLY ACCESS TITLE
Note: This game is under heavy active development with updates occurring frequently.
Game Engine
Survive the Nights is being created with the Unity Engine
Developer
There is a small indie team working on this title.
Survival Elements
You need to manage food and water, there is a sickness and injury system.
Base Building
You don’t custom build a base in this game, you must reinforce a current structure, You cannot destroy or remove any in game assets at this time.
Crafting
You will be doing a good bit of crafting along with base reinforcements.
Looting
You will be looting and resource gathering. The game is heavily loot based.
Combat, Main Enemy Types
Sorry my friends if you don’t like the big Z’s you want to play this one.
Characters and Leveling
There is no character creation or leveling, this is a first person view game.
Creature Taming and Mounts
There currently is no creature taming or mounts, the game does however have repairable vehicles.
Weather Impacts on Gameplay
I did not experience any weather impacts on the gameplay.
Game Modes
Very interesting here, in game you can download different playable scenarios. Two of them are Realistic, and New Player Tutorial. (PLAY THAT ONE!). There are currently several others. The game is also server based, so you can adjust anything and everything before you start the game.
Map
The map is handcrafted.
Over Gameplay Difficulty
On normal server settings the game is not super difficult, you can run around and bash zombies easy enough in the day, the hordes offer plenty of challenge.
Game Summary
Survive the Nights is a survival game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world filled with infected zombies and hostile players. The ultimate goal of the game is to survive as long as possible, scavenging for resources, reinforcing structures, and fending off dangers that lurk in the night.
Developers Stated Features
Structures are all exciting as there’s no “base building”. You can take control of an already existing structure, fortify and hunker down.
- Every door can be padlocked
- Plank over windows on the interior and exterior
- Power structures to provide much needed light
- Set traps outside/inside doors and windows
- Select and secure fixed containers with locks
- Barricade type fortifications can be free placed to hold back and damage zombies and other players.
- The host option allows a player to start a public or privately hosted server.
- Create private parties to play only with friends.
- Create a solo server and play by yourself without the worry of other players possibly ruining your good time.
- Difficulty progresses with the more hordes you survive.
- Horde difficulty can be set between 1 and your highest achieved difficulty.
- Realistic calorie consumption
- Realistic hydration system
- Only eat what you need for a day
- Eat more and build your calorie, stamina and overall health stats
- Consume cooked foods to lower your chance of sickness
- Hunt game for larger meals
- Realistic fuel consumption
- Realistic part system
- Vehicles support more than one passenger
- Vehicles can power structures
- Power an electric meter with a generator
- Power a set radius with a generator in the wild
- Supply a structure or area with electricity
- Power lights
- Crafted electrical items like work lamps
- Power gas pumps to retrieve fuel
- Simplified crafting system
- Combine common items to create other useful loot
- Create tools like axes, hammers and hatchets by combining crafted handles and found tool heads
- Craft canteens to store and purify water
- Combine food items with canteens to create meals that are ready to cook
- Easy to navigate an search for recipes
- Search based on recipe or ingredient
- Use large and small workbenches to craft items both large and small
- Manipulate any loot drop
- Placement directly from the inventory
- Place and store goods on counters, shelves or tables
- Organize your safe house
- Kill players repeatedly and pay the price
- Eat raw or rancid foods and lower your mental state
- Eat warm meals or fresh foods to raise your mental state
- Extreme lows in the mental health stat will result in death
- Dynamic lighting
- Dynamic seasons
- Day and night cycles
- Realistic star and moon positions
- Random weather events such as rainstorms and snowstorms
- Mist and fog system
- Large hand designed world
- Woodlands
- Campgrounds
- Starting Camps
- Shipping container camps
- Farmland
- Cabins
- Meadows
- Rivers
- Large road system
- 100’s of fortifiable structures
Day Cycle
- Fell trees
- Craft planks
- Hunting and trapping
- Gather loot and food
- Fortify a structure
- Secure doors and containers with locks
- Fuel generators and prepare power systems
- Light a fire to keep your health up
- Craft bandages and prepare for the night
Night Cycle
- Team up with friends
- Hunker down in your secured structure
- Avoid firearms use melee
- Remain as quiet as possible
- Start generators and power structures
- Set structure traps
- Cook meals indoors on wood stoves
- Try to survive the night
System Specs
MINIMUM:
- OS: Windows 7 64 bit
- Processor: 2ghz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 760 or higher/AMD Radeon HD 7870
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
- OS: Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: 3ghz
- Memory: 10 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060/AMD Radeon RX 480
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
Available on
Check out The Accidental Survivor and Survive The Nights on YouTube.
More Games Like Survive the Nights
The following games have these gameplay features. Although most survival games have all these elements and more, you should find that overall you would be playing very similar mechanics but with different graphical assets.
Similarities
Base Reinforcement, Base Defense, Zombies, Survival Mechanics, Dedicated Servers, Crafting, and Vehicles.