Survivor - Castaway Island

not good at all

Game is glitchy, repetitive and trash. the game crashed my pc the first attempt. 2nd attempt i make it all the way to the end, and it just glitches right on the axe throw in the obstacle course, and i can't move or do anything so i just lose. waste of time, feels terrible to not even have a chance to throw the axe.

Oh boy...another survivor game. Already had high hopes that I knew were going to sink thanks to the other 3 survivor games. I previously did this on Nintendo Switch (where I first saw this game) before I tried Steam's version of this game, thanks to me being stuck on the first merge challenge (whoever thought the first merge challenge should be a purge challenge is just insane) and knowing I can refund if necessary. Well personally now I do pick PC over Switch for a number of reasons, it's still not really good. I'll point out some things related to the Switch's version but I'll stick with how the PC version worked for me for most of it. Gameplay wise is only OK. I looked at some reviews before trying this out to see how people on PC handled this. Some were about the keys used, others for the difficulty, but mainly everyone's on about the stamina system. I'm on a minority with the stamina system, since I didn't have problems with it. You just need to learn how to conserve it. One thing I mainly focused on was double rations of food. If you have double the amount of food as adventurers (why on earth are they called this and not castaways, it's literally in the game title) they'll let you choose if you want to use double or not. Doing so gets you 10 more stamina to use. You want to spend your time looking for (what I'm assuming) puffer fish and squids, as they'll net you 2 and 3 rations of food. It saves your energy if you get them first try and get a profit on stamina. Keep doing this the whole game, if necessary to make it easier, try getting rid of some of your team members (pre-merge) so you spend less resources. You might also want to sleep often when you have a minimal amount of resources to survive and making sure you contribute enough. (because the bots just can't) This'll happen every single day, minus the little dialog it even has to begin with, it's the same thing over and over again. For 2-3 hours each season, (if you make it to the end) it becomes boring fast. You can also find hidden immunity idols around camp too, but it might just be me, but I couldn't even find one across the 3 games I played (2 Switch, 1 PC) and I looked hard. At least PC tells me an idea of where I can find them, when Switch told me crap. They hid the fact that it's visible but you need to keep your eyes open because it's laying on the ground, as I assumed it would be many pop-up locations for a chance at it around the island. (I think, but let me know how to actually find them, or at least what I'm looking for) EDIT - Found one just lying in the water, honestly the game should tell me what I should be looking for in my opinion. Challenges aren't really the best. It's easy to learn and uses the same buttons all the time. Most challenges are just pressing buttons in rhythm, but others are running across the map, so I guess there's some variety. The game also has tight timers on some of these challenges, or too long of timers to make it so you can't really lose if you try. The Switch version actually poses more of a problem than the PC version. One challenge involves breaking vases by jumping as high as you can. (by landing a slider ball in specific areas) That slider bar moves one end to the other in like 2-3 seconds, but Switch? Try that in about half a second with input delays. There's also the fact that those timers for some challenges change depending on the version. Take the challenge where you have to find 4 idols in a maze and place them on different pillars of the same color. The PC version cuts the time by 30 seconds compared to the Switch. So some challenges can be more difficult and others more easy. Keep in mind, DFGR are the keys for most of these and how you interact around camp. If you're like me and can learn quickly on awkward keys, (thanks 1990's tomb raiders) this won't be a big problem. But if you're used to the basic WASD, good luck because you can't change them. Social wise is also horrible, it's too easy to manipulate the bots into doing my bidding. As long as they hate someone, they'll go for them. I got every single person to like me easily, and won my first PC game because of it, winning 7-0 because I kept a person with no relationships to the end. (some reviews say otherwise about this, losing with better relationships) As far as I've heard, there's only 2 seasons that are similar in gameplay, making this game not really replayable. There's not many things you'd want to do over again, since most challenges are dull. It's going for $25 offsale and $30 for Switch (really?) and I can tell you, it's just a cash grab. Maybe if they did more work on this, then I could suggest to try it. But knowing how the industry for gaming works, I highly doubt it. (did I mention it's also a reskin of another game?) I end by saying that this is the best survivor game compared to the 4 out there, but the word 'best' has different meanings sometimes...

play it ♥♥♥♥♥

So bad bro

If you love Survivor this is worth picking up - especially during the current sale. If you have never watched Survivor, I would not recommend this the game. Small updates could make it such a better game!

This game feels a bit lazily put together with some challenges that aren't the greatest and players that are a bit too flat when trying to build team strategies. All that said Jefra did bite into a coconut everyday like an idiot, all my teammates hate me despite being the only one to collect resources, and I tried so hard to win for my team that I passed out and got kicked off the show before the merger. I enjoy all of this game's insane characters (and their backgrounds) and will continue to play more to become the winning survivor. Controller works great in this game and I would recommend it over mouse/keyboard. I really wish there was a character editor.

This game would be fun to survivor die hard players just for the feel of survivor.

The game starts off fun until you get to a point in the game where it is impossible to progress any further. Basically when you merge you have to complete a challenge or you will be automatically be eliminated (Keeping in mind this is not something they EVER do on the original show) the problem is this challenge they make it way harder than it usually is and they give you the smallest time to complete it too a time so small that it is nearly impossible to beat in the small time they give you. If you make even one tiny mistake in this challenge yeah you're not passing. It's not a me problem either cause i always win most of if not all the challenges before the merge and a lot of people i know keep getting screwed over by the merge challenge. It's a shame the morons who made this game ruined what could have been a good survivor game by adding a very unfair twist in the game that is guaranteed to screw yo over 90% of the time. Terrible jobs developers don't ever make another game you suck and you're a disgrace

I really like survivor, but this game is just not good, the only "multiplayer" you can do is split screen tournaments, but those are just challenges, I want to be able to do multiplayer with friends, or just online with anyone, and not just playing stupid challenges. Second, there is no customization, you can't make your own character, design a tribe, choose the amount of castaways, or whether or not to have advantages. I am so sorry, but this game just doesn't feel right to me.