Urge

If the forest and 7 days to die got married and had a son with urine issues, it will be this game. Lore 8/10 Gameplay 10/10 Graphics 9/10 Environment 10/10 Absolute masterpiece, i love you EnDrew.

This game is actually super creepy, I constantly have a slow growing sense of dread filling in me when I play it. Not unlike my bladder.

Really should add multiplayer, would boost players like crazy, even if shiftily implemented

The game I want to enjoy, but just can't. It does a lot of things right, but just as many things wrong. Game provides minimal to no explanations for most of the content. There's a loose narrative that gets you going, but doesn't provide any tutorials or anything after the initial cutscene/confusion. It's essentially open world, however key items seem to only appear in very specific spots and don't really change unless another update is released and it's changed to another fixed location.. This ruins the open world aspect as you'll struggle without certain items, such as decent firearms and tools - You'll need to hunt certain items down before the mist/fog becomes too intense and the difficulty ramps up dramatically. It's easy to find yourself trapped in a death-loop as you'll still be getting to grips with the Urge/Urine mechanics. The trailers show dramatic compound showdowns and shootouts, but if you've gotten to that point then your game is essentially bricked unless you already have a staggering amount of supplies on-hand to craft an incredibly explosive solution.. Even then there are enemies that continuously produce the game ending urine mist and without many cues to hear/see them (I frequently had to roam the woods randomly as even though the worst culprits fly, they do so low enough to make it harder to see in certain areas). You can reduce the mist and the enemies, however it's a slippery slope of supply and time management. Killing enemies generally doesn't provide anything other than (occasional) meat, encouraging players to be careful and resourceful in their encounters.. It's just a shame the enemies seem to be incredibly persistent if not slow. There are a LOT of factors to consider when performing any action, as even shooting enemies in certain limbs can increase the fog/mist (this is one of the better features, forcing you to adopt different strategies for different enemies). The issue with enemies in general is that they're inhumanly strong.. An enemy that is emaciated and literally a stick figure can take an unreasonable amount of blows to just bring down, not including any attempts to harvest meat (and this game has survival mechanics, making this essential just to balance out your stamina/health drain). Would getting into a fight with a weapon be tiresome in real life? Definitely. Would it take 20+ hits just to break a limb? I doubt it. Your character appears to be incredibly asthmatic as most actions seem to drain your stamina rapidly. The crafting is basic yet not immediately obvious; you'll be experimenting for a bit just to figure out what items go with what.. It isn't awful, but leaves the crafting feeling a little too simple at times due to linear combinations, e.g. your main harvesting tool is essentially combined with one item to make it into another better item, rinse and repeat. You'll find yourself fiddling with inventories and storage a LOT. The creation and building aspects are incredible if not basic. You have a lot of freedom to create whatever base you want, even being able to attach building/trap elements to working vehicles. You can create flooring and walls exactly how you want them, with the game letting you draw the layout precisely before placing them. Even doors and windows let you have a lot of creative freedom. Settling down and trying to barricade off a decent location was the most fun I had in this game, but it was short lived as supply runs were meager and, as previously mentioned, key items are in static locations generally miles away from each other. Defending your compound can be fun, but ammunition bogs it down to a point where it isn't viable for more than a few minutes.. Not even mentioning that most ammo creates fog/mist upon use. Despite the yellow filter the atmosphere is great. Nights are dark and tense, really adding to the safety you feel when you finally settle down, and increasing your eagerness to get to cover when the sun starts to set - it works well to create a natural flow of scavenging when you can and defending when you can't. The game has decent physics when it comes to handling the mist/fog, even allowing you to create tarps and coverings to help prevent its increase.. It's just a shame that the risk/reward ratio is heavily skewed towards risk, as even the cars have been converted in a way to where you'll increase the mist heavily by using them. Walking isn't exactly viable in the long term due to aforementioned difficulty spikes and rush to get things done - you will not have the room for supplies without a car and will find yourself out after dark frequently if you try to make it on foot. The development team seems small and the game is still in early access, yet it runs rather well. I have no complaints about the optimizations and my setup is rather pathetic - I feel like most modern computers could run this comfortably. Overall this is a fun game, but it's bogged down by odd choices. Keeping a lot of the survival elements, yet fine-tuning damage/health for enemies as well as providing more means to reduce/prevent the difficulty from snowballing so quickly would make a huge difference. I'm hoping the game receives a LOT of polish before its final release as there is a TON of potential to it. The developer generally updates the game frequently and seems to truly care about their product. Unfortunately I cannot recommend it to the average player in its current state due to a steep learning curve and high difficulty.

I have become a living nuclear reactor; I power my car's, weapons, garden, and base with my volatile excretion. The horrors that once pushed me deeper into the dark now grovel and flee, the mongrels are churned into compost or meat for the larder. The Urge throbs and I must satiate the itch

There are games that ask you to be a hero. There are games that ask you to conquer, to build, to survive, to become something greater than yourself. And then… there is this. A game so gloriously unhinged, so beautifully unrestrained, that it throws all convention into the void and replaces it with something far more primal, far more honest — the sheer, unapologetic power of chaos itself. Here, the act that most games would never even dare to acknowledge becomes the very language through which you interact with the world. Pissing is no longer a joke, no longer a throwaway gag — it is the mechanic, the weapon, the identity. And somehow… it transcends its own absurdity. From the very first moment, you realize you are not stepping into a carefully crafted narrative of order and logic. No — you are diving headfirst into a fever dream, a surreal playground where reason dissolves and instinct takes over. Every encounter feels like a clash between madness and mastery. Every victory feels earned in the strangest, most inexplicable way. There is a rhythm to it — a flow, almost musical. A strange poetry hidden beneath layers of ridiculousness. You begin to understand the timing, the movement, the absurd elegance of it all. What once seemed crude starts to feel deliberate. What once made you laugh begins to command your respect. And that is where this game reveals its true brilliance. Because beneath the surface-level insanity lies something rare — a kind of fearless creativity that refuses to be boxed in. It does not care about expectations. It does not care about dignity. It exists purely as an expression of chaotic imagination, and in doing so, it achieves something unforgettable. I laughed. I questioned everything. I wondered why this exists, who made it, and what chain of events led humanity to this exact point in time where I am, without irony, completely invested in a game built around this concept. And yet… I kept playing. Because somewhere along the way, the joke stopped being just a joke. It became an experience. A wild, uncontrollable, strangely beautiful experience that I couldn’t put down. This is not just a game. This is not just absurdity. This is art — messy, ridiculous, shameless art — flowing freely without restraint. And against all logic, all reason, all expectation… I absolutely, wholeheartedly love it. Would Play for fatty again (Sebastian Moiceanu) I love fatty XOXO ♡♡♡♡♡ 10/10 would piss again

I tried giving this game another chance after refunding it a few years ago. The early game feels like a typical abandonware game. The game intro feels bad. The inventory feels bad. The combat feels bad. The survival aspect feels bad.. I don't understand the positive reviews this game has other than being "the wee wee game -product refunded-"

Urge is the text book definition of a hidden gem. I know this has been out for a while in early access and can't speak to what the game was like years ago, but right now this is a really great game and totally worth buying. I have no idea how I never heard of this until the last steam sale where I was digging deep through the search lists looking for a new game, but low and behold there it was, a game with an odd thumbnail, Urge. In the beginning I had a love\hate relationship with this one, to the point I even uninstalled it twice because I was frustrated, only to install it again a day or two later because it was just such an interesting premise that I kept telling myself to give it another go, and I'm glad I did. This is because Urge does have some really big flaws and, at least for me, was why I kept getting so frustrated in the beginning 8-12 hours or so. Some of those frustrations continue throughout the game regardless, but it's still so much fun that you learn to deal with it. Especially because some of these issues can be dealt with, they are just annoying sometimes. Like for one, I hate the save system. I get that the dev is going for something here, and to be fair the game IS balanced around this save system well enough. None the less, there is a reason games went away from having a save system with no autosaves, and only allowing manual saves in certain circumstances to boot. Because its frustrating, and ESPECIALLY so in a survival game like this one. Because the problem is that this game really sucks you in and it's a pain in the ass and/or nearly impossible to remember to drop what you're doing to go save your game, especially when this requires you to go find a sink to do so. Imagine you're going out into the forest ready to cut down a ton of trees for the big base expansion you have planned. So you go out and spend the entire in game day cutting trees and collecting wood, killing badies as they come, as you do in any survival game. After a hard days work you head back home and hit a patch of sky that's caught on fire, or a batch of roaming enemies.. and ut oh, you just got killed and that whole day of work has to be done over. Again, the game is done in a way that you can have a save spot semi-nearby most of the time once you fully grasp and experiment with the building and vehicle system, but there are still times you loose progress that will be frustrating because we're human beings and we're GOING to forget to save every 10-15 minutes. The next issue was just the lack of direction/instruction through the story/lure and honestly some of the game mechanics too. I love that this is a very.... not hold your hand.... kind of game. but sometimes the direction that is given will make you facepalm. There is one stage of the story where you get a photograph of a house on a hill and the clue just says "Find the yellow house" No marker on the map, no other direction at all.... nothing. I got lucky myself and found the house almost right away. But I KNOW there are people that got to that point and gave up trying to find this house. The same goes for a few game mechanics. Since you are left to your own devices for the entire game, there will be a period early on where you have no idea there are certain game mechanics at your disposal because you have no idea they exist. Which is also why I had a love/hate thing in the beginning. Once you grasp everything most of those early issues do have solutions to them that you just won't know about until you stumble on them. Beyond the early stages this game is an absolute gem. I'm sure people have come upon this games store page and scratched their heads when they realize the premise and gimmick of this survival game is.... peepee. But don't let that initial reaction turn you away. The pee/infection mechanic is SO well done and is interlaced between multiple layers inside the game loop. I'm telling you, it's borerline genius. The fact that everything revolves around pee and isn't just a shock gimmick is quite the accomplishment. I don't want to go into great detail on this because half the fun is discovering all the wild aspects of how this concept is implemented, but I will say that there are so many different layers that in really drags you into the world and immerses you in what's going on around you. This is also doubly so because the in game lore you discover can be pretty interesting. There are two main ways lure is put into Urge; 1. Through normal means like finding a few notes and just progressing to the next story stage and find tidbits along the way as you explore. This isn't a game packed with lure notes that could fill a novel, but the story it's telling, and just as importantly, NOT telling, really drags you into the concept in the hope you can fully discover what's going on. 2. Through the environment itself, if you really explore the world you can find some quite shocking revelations by scenes you can come across. Locations and incidents essentially frozen in time when everything went wrong. It's a really great way to tell just a bit of story while also bringing up many new questions as well. All of this really drags you in and has a great level of world building that makes you want more. Which was also why it was frustrating at times too, because some of it is so open ended that you can get stuck and have no idea what to do next, even after searching high and low. Which I am right now, no idea what I'm supposed to find next. The game is also packed with a surprisingly deep building system. This also led to me really caring about my base (and vehicles) because the dev clearly wanted a building system that offered a lot of freedom. This uses a pillar style system where you essentially spread poles everywhere like frames and then fill them in with doors, walls, etc. It's a very fluid and well designed system once you've experimented with it a while. This is a wholly unique building system that has clearly been designed from the ground up because I have played ALOT and I mean ALOTTTTTT of building games and I have never seen a building system quite like this one. It's fun to play with, it's fun to experiment with, and the implementation could not be better. That building system is doubly cool when you realize it also applies and works with vehicles you come across in the world. And let me tell you, that was a pleasant surprise. You see in the game trailer that there are vehicles and maybe they can have defenses or upgrades, but it doesn't do it justice. The modular pillar base building system also works with vehicles and I can't describe how much fun that has been. You can do some pretty wild things with cars, and it's even cooler that exploration can reward you with some really fun cars to use. This leads to exploration. While I did find myself wishing there were more materials in the world overall, more crafting recipes, etc, I did still like going around hunting and looting locations, clearing areas out one at a time. Most locations have some kind of interesting and unique item you can find. If you went through a major point of interest and didn't walk away with a smile on your face because you just found a new toy, then it's because you missed it. The combat and weapons are all fun, again don't want to dig too deep here for any spoilers on how some of the pee mechanics work, but everything works well. Even the enemy AI isn't half bad. Sometimes purposely leaning and trying to get out of your line of fire. Crafting is also cool as it borrows the Resident Evil 4 idea where a lot of crafting comes from combining items. There are lots of combinations to discover, some of them you can find as lure, most of them from just experimenting with everything and seeing what can combine with what. It's well done, it's fun, I liked it! So even though I had a rough time at the beginning, I am SO glad I stuck with it because once you figure it all out, this is one hell of a game

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