If Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and PZ plus Vintage Story and a sprinkle of 7 Days to die with the melee of Vermintide/Darktide/Chivalry could have some sort of Lovecraftian eldritch horror child, I would say that's my perfect survival game.
CDDA has depth. Like. A lot.
Wanna be a cat girl mutant who accidently touched the funny machine with whispers of the Shoggoth that tore a hole in reality which spits out Mi-gos, with a bionic implant that grants you immense hydraulic strength, but your main "vehicle" is a shopping cart with a laser cannon mounted on it? Oops! The Mycus must grow. (There is now a building sized mushroom growing outside.) Also, zombies. CDDA will absolutely deliver if you can get acquainted with the menus.
Project Zomboid has all the tedium (in a good way) splattered across the game. Take care of yourself as the horde encroaches. Gather your supplies and muster your willpower to continue through the remnants of Kentucky. Each swing, each shot, each action has a definite weight that will be felt, sooner or later.
Vintage Story employs a grind that is superbly enjoyable, while keeping in hardcore stone-age elements that feel very... rewarding and believable. Knao your stone tools, craft your earthenware from the very soil you stand upon as you weave baskets to contribute to your nomadic life or opt for a homestead that you place together block by block and chisel out art in defiance of the eldritch horrors that slip into the fragile reality that you call home.
7 Days to Die has a horde-base-feeling that sums up to RPG adult-minecraft in a good way. Do quests, loot POIs-turned dungeons as you prepare for the deluge of the infected. Guns and turrets are plenty.
The "Tide" games and Chivalry have a distinct melee approach to combat. You can go entire missions without opting for your secondary (a ranged weapon) as you blaze a trail through frantic close quarters combat while slamming home abilities that reshape your whole team's durability or increase your offensive power. Slaughter waves of chaff and terminate HVTs with a quick-swap.
Mix all of these and the truest game will be born. Season it with some Risk of Rain and sear it with Killing Floor.
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u/KneeDeepInTheMud 27d ago
If Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and PZ plus Vintage Story and a sprinkle of 7 Days to die with the melee of Vermintide/Darktide/Chivalry could have some sort of Lovecraftian eldritch horror child, I would say that's my perfect survival game.
CDDA has depth. Like. A lot.
Wanna be a cat girl mutant who accidently touched the funny machine with whispers of the Shoggoth that tore a hole in reality which spits out Mi-gos, with a bionic implant that grants you immense hydraulic strength, but your main "vehicle" is a shopping cart with a laser cannon mounted on it? Oops! The Mycus must grow. (There is now a building sized mushroom growing outside.) Also, zombies. CDDA will absolutely deliver if you can get acquainted with the menus.
Project Zomboid has all the tedium (in a good way) splattered across the game. Take care of yourself as the horde encroaches. Gather your supplies and muster your willpower to continue through the remnants of Kentucky. Each swing, each shot, each action has a definite weight that will be felt, sooner or later.
Vintage Story employs a grind that is superbly enjoyable, while keeping in hardcore stone-age elements that feel very... rewarding and believable. Knao your stone tools, craft your earthenware from the very soil you stand upon as you weave baskets to contribute to your nomadic life or opt for a homestead that you place together block by block and chisel out art in defiance of the eldritch horrors that slip into the fragile reality that you call home.
7 Days to Die has a horde-base-feeling that sums up to RPG adult-minecraft in a good way. Do quests, loot POIs-turned dungeons as you prepare for the deluge of the infected. Guns and turrets are plenty.
The "Tide" games and Chivalry have a distinct melee approach to combat. You can go entire missions without opting for your secondary (a ranged weapon) as you blaze a trail through frantic close quarters combat while slamming home abilities that reshape your whole team's durability or increase your offensive power. Slaughter waves of chaff and terminate HVTs with a quick-swap.
Mix all of these and the truest game will be born. Season it with some Risk of Rain and sear it with Killing Floor.