Next Day: Survival

I realize it is not much of a surprise that a low-budget S.T.A.L.K.E.R.esque game is bad, but let me start this negative review by pointing out the actual cool things going on here. It is probably the third or fourth most overall competent, jank notwithstanding, post-apocalypticy swampy Eastern Europeaniano game of its type that I have played out of a dozen or more. It has shockingly bordering on worryingly great animations for a few things, is at least a little fun to try to get into, and apparently was updated at some point to add an offline mode as it was once an online server-based game (I do not remember that at all, if I ever played in that era, but yes every developer deserves credit for making their game available beyond its original economic viability) But then, like, if you die, you should probably just give up and stop playing, because whatever killed you will still be there when you go back to try to get your things, and if you did not stand much of a chance against, say, a "Bear Maneater" or a pack of military thugs when fully equipped, do you think you are going to fare much better when wearing a t-shirt and carrying nothing but a map? The cycle at that point becomes seeing how much fun you can have dying no matter which direction you come from, because whatever killed you (the bear, in my case) always hears/sees you coming and is faster than you and you are uninstalling the game now.