
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
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Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Sep 1 → 2.14/day in the week after.
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Themes across 863 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Jeesh, you need way too much resources to keep up with not perishing.
Game is hard for the sake of being hard. - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rng. find lootboxes to progress - nonsensical crafting system. some things can only be crafted from the base command unit. - I lost a lot of ♥♥♥♥ because I spawned away at night while it rained at half health. I couldn't get to my body because I would die from the cold first no matter how careful I was. Only RNG lootboxes would have saved me. Couldn't craft a bed because my base had no power. - I'd say more but I'm too pissed about what happened lmao
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 194.14/day in the week to Jul 18 → 1.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Russian +14 more
Hours played at review time, across 865 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Купил игру еще в начале раннего доступа и наиграл большую часть времени еще тогда, ну что сказать за 11 лет ничерта толком не поменялось. Баг с болячкой полученной до гибели и оставшейся после перерождения не вылечен, выход из воды как буд-то в свинцовых башмаках так и остался, стрельба из лука так и осталась хуже чем в первом Форесте, за то теперь у нас голод и жажда наступает значительно скорей, а спавн дропа с полезным лутом на карте намного реже. Спавн хищников плюс медведи, которых тогда не было, почти через каждые сто метров, а кур и кроликов при убийстве из 9-ти миллиметрового пистолета просто разрывает на части, да так, что тушку невозможно съесть, а шкурку снять, короче бред. Не рекомендую к покупке.
Ignore the bad reviews, most people have their own idea of what they think the game is or what they want from it before playing. It’s a survival game, the objective is to survive. That means grinding a bit to get resources when starting. Overall this early access game is a 9/10 for me. Basically because it’s early access, it still has a bit of work to go but it’s really good. Not many single player survival games that are this fun anymore. If you’re looking for an open world survival game, where you get to craft and build, there are guns and weapons and lots of progression. You can farm, and take care of animals to get eggs from or meat. Overall there isn’t much missing, also the hunters are really fun to keep it feeling like a pvp (which you can turn off) Either way if you’re debating on playing I highly suggest you get it and keep in mind it is still early access so it will get better.
Same jank it had 10 years ago... I like jank, within reason, this is just not fun. The excessive requirement for nails to do anything takes any steam out of this pos.
This game is a big SCAM! It's terrible... preset objects, if you want to play with a friend you can't play properly because you can't see each other on the map. It's crap... there's no map either.
After years this games development you still get all your loot from random duffel bags on the ground.
September 26th - NEW UPDATE! Yaaay! For a game that has been in "early access" for 7 years, hurray, progress!!!! Right? Wrong! These devs are more disconnected from their player base than I am from my in-laws... They made AI EFFING HARDER!!! Really? Is that what the game needed? Who complained about AI being too easy? Game sucks, devs suck, save your money, even if the game is $1. Here is my previous review before this update: The game is SUPER unbalanced. Getting resources like Lithium and obsidian is a GIANT chore, for literally no reward. You're better off killing animals with arrows around your base for fat to turn into biodiesel. Combat??? Don't even get me started. Gunplay is THE WORST of ANY shooter game I have played in the last 30 years. When I say that, I mean THE WORST. This game needs SO much help, it's not even funny. But then again, if you ever see a game that is in Alpha after 8 years since launch, you know they fu$%#d up about 7 years ago... I bought it for only $5 on sale due to the market adjustment for Ukraine, and it's still $5 wasted. Don't hope, this game is beyond hope, as the fundamental mechanics are SO bad.
Too much work to do basic crafting. If your looking for a punishing survival game this is foy you.
Game has been out for 10 years? Feels like 3 months with how it is configured. Very grindy and if you play on normal prepare for it to be a daily struggle to survive. Coop is rough to find your friend, and you cant even track them on a heads-up display. Why in the heck you need nails for a dam arrow is beyond me, but there def aint enough nails for such a low damage item. Skip this one for sure.
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