Survival: Fountain of Youth

I loved the mechanics and the lore

The Forest in a desert island setting.

This game surprised me. Really good survival game. Looking forward to what this team does next.

Simple but enjoyable The theme of Age of Discovery is also a charming point, which the time is between primitive and modern, is a great theme for survival craft game I think. Hope we can get more content for your next game.

This is a tough one to recommend, but in the end I had fun with it. I've played a lot of survival games, and this one falls squarely in the middle of the pack: not amazing, but not terrible. One thing I liked was the variety of environments; each island comes with a different set of challenges. The starter island is large and full of resources so you can get your footing and learn the game. Then you move to an arid island with no rain, which significantly ramps up the difficulty. After that you go to an island with few resources and entirely too much rain, and so on. The game felt very slow-paced to me. You spend most of your time building up a base on each island and gathering whatever special resources you'll need to continue your journey. Then you build a new boat and sail off to the next one. But there's also a good amount of exploration, finding the story breadcrumbs of both your own ill-fated expedition and of the area's former inhabitants. And speaking of story, I also liked the setting. The conquistador era is an interesting period of history with just the right level of technology for a game like this - not entirely primitive but not futuristic either. And sailing. Lots of sailing. There were some downsides, though. Fighting is the big one: the combat system is very poorly implemented. Every fight basically boils down to letting an animal bite your arm, then throwing it down behind you and whacking it while it's stunned. Until you get to the final boss, that is: even your superhuman forearms are no match for a guy with a sword and an insanely large hitbox. (The optional snake boss was pretty frustrating as well, but I killed it.) The other big problem is resource scarcity. Resources do respawn over time, but incredibly slowly. Even building a farm doesn't help all that much, and the late-game metals are in short supply. If you're not judicious with your iron you'll wind up not having enough for the weapons and armor you'll need to survive those boss fights. I wound up sticking with stone and bone tools for most of the game since those tend to be far more plentiful, and saving the copper and iron for when I really needed them. (Protip: don't slack on reading the skill books. They give some useful perks that will help stretch your resources.) Overall, I give it a weak thumbs-up. Not the best survival game ever, but it's a passable beach vacation for the cold winter months :)

Great survival mechanics. The writing and voice isn't great, but it's an interesting and challenging game. The mapping and travel around and between islands is new and interesting.