A single player exploration and survival experience, played in first person and developed in Unreal Engine 4. Set on a mysterious and uninhabited alien planet.
Earth is on the brink of destruction and you are sent to explore a distant planet. After years of space travel you arrive but experience a catastrophic landing.
With your team members dead and your equipment destroyed you have no way of communicating with - or receiving help from an Earth that might no longer exist... you are completely and utterly alone.
Explore
Survive through exploration. Unlock the depths of the uncharted planet, and the secrets buried deep below. Delve into huge cave systems and tombs and uncover over 200 secrets.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere rich environment that is fully dynamic. A day and night cycle and a dynamic weather system that calculates temperature/humidity/wind. Ocean tides. Plants respond to the climate. Storms form. Earthquakes happen.
Survive
Survive the extreme climate, tornadoes, storms, meteors, lightning, and not least the dark secrets burried beneath the surface.
FEATURES CONTINUED
Depth
Plants grow and rot. Ocean tide based on the moon. Your body responds to everything from getting wet to lack of sleep to walking uphill to the humidity. Hundreds of upgrades to be found. Secret areas within secret areas within secret areas.
Savior
Your death means the end of mankind. Save us and rebuild a communication device to phone home, by scavenging useful items.
Adventure
Be a pioneer, an archeologist, and an astronaut to explore a mysterious alien planet. The adventure has a beginning and an end, but it is a harsh world. A mistake will cost you your life.
Length
Many kilometers/miles of alien islands, caves, and tombs.
The Ball
Spiritual successor to The Ball. Same universe, same backstory, same atmosphere
alien planet.... how does his little computer know where the key needed to open the door is? It looks cool but that looked more of like a hand-holding interactive story than a game.
alien planet.... how does his little computer know where the key needed to open the door is? It looks cool but that looked more of like a hand-holding interactive story than a game.
Exactly why I'm more into the MP survival games than SP, as SP ones will have lots more hand holding for the whole "cinematic experience"
Proud member of Frustrated Association of International Losers Failing Against the Gifted and Superior (F.A.I.L.F.A.G.S)
Not bad! The developers are a cool bunch. I found both The Ball and Unmechanical highly enjoyable, and judging from the video this one will likely follow that trend as well.
Out on Steam via early-access, game is nearly finished but the content will be released gradually throughout the early-access period so for now only the three first levels are available.
Oh and yes the game is a adventure game with survival and exploration elements and it is linear with roughly 5 - 9 hours of content in the full version depending on if you explore for secrets or just follow the path to the end.
This is not a sandbox survival game although there are survival mechanics such as managing food and water, heat and cold and various weather elements.
(It's explained somewhat vague in the Steam description if you just have quick skim through it so yeah at the moment there's a lot of posts on the community forums on how it's a failure and disappointment and false advertisement for not being another Planet Explorers or The Forest.)
Also for being UE4 it runs really well so far unless you push the resolution slider above 100% (Supersampling.) and it also has full access to the debug console so you can tweak the game further and the in-game options also lets you fine tune the difficulty level somewhat from just casual exploration to deadly survival.
EDIT: In short I like the game from what little I played so far but keep in mind it's a adventure game and linear and not a open-ended sandbox survival game, also while it is linear you are free to backtrack at any time should you desire to do so.
(Ten levels all in all in the final release as I understood it it's split between five large islands and five large tombs.)
Damn you hypothermia!!
I can say that the game has some really wow moments like some huge storms and tornadoes unscripted. This version is alittle rough but def enjoying this..i mean if only i could get warm..
Edit: Now this is a true explorers find:
Epsilon wrote:
Meanwhile the people of that generation will call those guys relics, and not move with the times when everything is auto fucking.
SAVE GAMES SHOULD BE COMPATIBLE BUT CANNOT GUARANTEE 100% COMPATIBILITY
CONTROL SYSTEM WAS CHANGED - YOU MAY HAVE LOST YOUR SET OR DEFAULT VALUES
MAJOR UPGRADE NOTES
New secret area in opening level
All control rebinding related issues greatly reduced/fixed
Massive VR change with VR main menu and multiple additional options and tweaking
Subtitles 1.0
Balancing in particular regarding hard difficulty and sleeping
Can now holster items
Improved Xbox gamepad functionality in menu and in game
Intro tutorial does not has to be completed anymore or can be completed in different order
REMAINING MAJOR ISSUES
New VR menu may not give you control until you restart game once. Also you may need to use the mouse left click to confirm currently selected option. Enter may not work.
Subtitle and voices may play while menus are up for example or when the option is turned off
Hard to read pocket computer in VR
Loading screens are very long or crash for some
Problem with setting mouse sensitivity
Balancing
On waking up after sleep game no longer saves if hunger/thirst/temperature critical and damaging you so you don't ruin your save game.
Food cans, plants give 10-20% more calories.
During sleeping hunger and thirst go down a lot slower, temperature a little slower
Dehydration goes 5% slower in general
Hunger goes 10% slower in general
Lightning is a lot more likely to hit you
On hard difficulty dehydration and hunger go additional 50% slower
On hard lightning is an additional 50% more likely to strike you
On hard hail storms hurt more
Meteors now have 5% chance of spawning a meteor that will hit very near you or on top of you.
On hard meteors have an even higher chance of spawning on a trajectory that will hit you
Levels
Multiple holes in geometry and getting stuck in geometry issues fixed
Landing Cave water bottle puzzle replaced with idol statue nearby
Landing Cave extra save point before first swim
Landing Autosaves upon completing torch tutorial
Landing tutorial checks if you already posses whatever it wants you to do next and if so skips the next step
Landing tutorial insta completes if you make a lit oiled torch while not following the tutorial steps
Landing large new secret cavern
Landing has permanent food source hidden away now
Crossroads 1 paper note on the beach was under the ground
Intro long black load screen at the end removed
Intro improved shaking in second half
FPC1 Exploit fixed where you can fly out of level
Crossroads Player comments on Yuri now
Core
Flashlight should no longer leave ghost item behind if removed after load
Possible fix for all inventory related crashes/cannot drop something related things
Fix for combining lit + unlit torch leading to deletion of one of the two torches
Possible fix for teleporter crashing in rare cases
Assumed fix for AMD wrongly rendering the applyment points when crafting
Can now holster what you hold by pressing Q.
Game automatically uncrouches before saving to prevent crouch being saved into the save game.
No longer first need to click a controller button to activate gamepad controller support
UI
Possible fix for continue button sometimes not being available main menu
Note added to Controls menu that it has bugs and how to work around them for now
Losing mouse cursor or freezing on inventory or crafting menu fixed
Entering ladder climb mode now pops up controls
New Act screen has better art
First version of subtitles now available. English only for the time being.
IIf you hide HUD, sleep eye lids no longer hidden also
VR
If enabled do not play intro cutscene in Landing
If enabled do not display tutorial UI boxes
In VR crouch speed is now also scaled
Can now set Comfort Rotation, Smooth Rotation, Strafe in VR for Left/Right
Can now set the movement speed you want to use in VR options, max 100%, min 10%.
On VR all camera shakes and camera animations now hard forced off
In VR Enter/E/Left Click also allows for starting Sleep
Can now detach head from movement with new option. This makes seeing PDA harder, press H (force PDA up) to read PDA in this mode.
If enabled do not allow opening inventory UI and do not allow crafting of items not held in your hand right now (and which would need crafting UI)
VR main menu exists, activated by F11 just like in game
Audio
New speech line about Yuri
Some new panting and grunt sounds
Signature/Avatar nuking: none (can be changed in your profile)
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the voice though.. 
So not a Souls game after all?
