
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
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Three different game modes – Story, Survival, and Cold Wave
Story-driven survival experience crafted for new & veteran players who wish to rediscover the genre from a different perspective
Sanity system that challenges your gameplay and turns the difficulty curve upside down
Fully customizable experience – shape your own gameplay
A dynamic environment that evolves as you progress, constantly increasing the challenge

Winter Survival blends classic survival mechanics with psychological tension and narrative mystery. In Story Mode, uncover the story of Danny – a rookie survivalist whose only desire is to come back home. Learn basic and advanced mechanics of our survival approach and take responsibility for Danny’s future.
Forge your own path in a sandbox-style Survival Mode, free of narrative constraints. Customize the gameplay the way you like, choose from different starting scenarios, and shape your own survival adventure.
Or try Cold Wave Mode – a quick hop-in and hop-out survival experience where death is always a step behind. Survive as long as you can, gather as many gold bars as possible, and in the end, compare your score with other survivalists. Every run brings invaluable knowledge and better starting gear, potentially leading to a higher score.


Sanity is your most fragile resource. As hunger bites, isolation deepens, and predators stalk the night, your grip on reality begins to slip as your trauma meter increases.
Hallucinations, panic attacks, and even delusional predators become as dangerous as wolves or frostbite. And this is only a glimpse of the symptoms that you’ll have to carefully pick from.
Craft tools, build shelter, and explore the vast, living world of Winter Survival. But remember — you are the outsider here. Adapt to the wild, expect the unexpected, and watch as nature reacts to your every move.

With a vast open world at your disposal, explore frostbitten forests, humid marshes, abandoned settlements, and shadowed caves where silence screams.
Move stealthily to avoid danger, use the terrain to outsmart predators, or face them in direct combat.

Winter Survival introduces you to the basics and advanced mechanics of survival, but with our own twist.
Looking for supplies or food? Scavenge the area that surrounds you or choose a more dangerous approach and try to steal it from wolves.
Freezing to death? Lighting up the fire might be your true salvation. It will provide you with warmth and scare away wolves, but it might attract other predators – especially when cooking out in the wild.
Want to hunt that deer which stalks the area? Great, but act quickly to secure that tasty meal before other far more dangerous creatures lay their claws on it.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian*languages with full audio support
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Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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AKT1 und Akt2 wunderschön gemacht macht, ich habs gefühlt, mir war kalt. Klasse Spiel, bis AKT3 kommt. Ich dachte erst ich hätte ein falsches Spiel gestartet. Glaube da haben die Programmierer angefangen zu kiffen oder haben Pilze gegessen, permanent sprechende Holzpuppen, ein Zauberhans der herum schwebt…. Warum machen die das? Ein wunderschönes Spiel entspanntes craften, jagen und sammeln wird auf einmal vollkommen albern. Da haben die Programmierer wohl den falschen Psychologen zu Rate gezogen. Hatte auch schon Fieber da ist mir nie der Reiter der Apokalypse begegnet. Hmm… es ärgert mich richtig, so ein schönes Spiel, hätte was werden können. Leider ist das ganze falsch abgebogen. Klar ist nur meine Meinung, ich bin verägert und enttäuscht und deshalb einen Daumen runter. Wer so einen Psychogeschwurbel, Holzpuppengelaber und den fliegenden Klapperhans braucht ist das Spiel natürlich genau das richtige. Ich habs nicht fertig gespielt, ging so was von aufn Sack…. gelöscht
The further I progress the further I get frustrated with alle the bugs and lack of attention to the UI in general. End Game is just too much of all the bad things combined this game has to offer. And don't get me started on the insanity factor. I mean, you walk for few hours in game and feel a little hungry and suddenly you've lost your mind. IRL I can easily go for a day without food and actually end up feeling better about myself. You spent half the time looking for mushrooms, because of course there is only one item in the entire game that can remove insanity. Why not a good nights sleep? Why not well fed; especially when lack of food adds to the insanity, you'd think sleep or eating would reverse it. Noooo.. Green Hell got insanity right if you ask me and made it easier to handle as you progressed. In Winter Survival it is almost impossible to handle in the end game, because of course there are no mushrooms to be found anywhere. It's a good idea, but execution (as usual) lacks attention. Also; why does everything have to break so easily in these poorly executed games?
This game is such a slow burn... you'll probably freeze to death before you get to anything in the game you enjoy.
Honestly, i love survival games and the story line was pretty cool. This in my opinion was challenging until i learn the mechanics. I only wish the settings were more challenging. Example: heavy snow, more random attacks by wolfs, more packs, more diseases. But i love the game. Yes the game has some issues like many other games, but its playable and you can spend several hours how to survive in the wild. It really reminds me of Hell's survival but in a winter setting. There are some bugs unfortunately, and i did have to load my games from previous saves simply because a bug would cause the plot to be stuck. Regardless i still had such a good time. I spent many nights staying up late. Is it perfect, no way, but its pretty good. For those haters, all i can say we all have different points of views. No video game is ever 100% perfect. If you can catch this on sale. you will at least spend a few days having fun and learning to do things.
Эта игра была куплена как некий филлер в ожидании пятого эпизода The Long Dark. Однако, почитав отзывы, я понял, что игра в очень сыром состоянии и отложил ее на потом. Никак не ожидал, что сюжетный режим The Long Dark станет таким разочарованием, а тут объявление от разработчиков данной игры, что все что могли - пофиксили и каких-то апдейтов можно в ближайшее время не ждать. Запустил. Поиграл. Честно говоря, понравилось гораздо больше сюжетки TLD, которая сильно уступала режиму выживания. Здесь же сюжетный режим не превращает игру в симулятор ходьбы. При этом игра не является клоном TLD. Есть возможно строительства базы в произвольном месте, убийство диких зверей более аркадное, множество всяких своих самобытных фишек. Темп игры, кстати, достаточно высокий. Но - к сожалению, баги, баги, баги, сырость и недоработки. Потенциал игры, не реализован, да и поиграло в нее на пике пара сотен человек всего. Но для кого-то данная игра может вполне оказаться хидден гемом. Кто знает - может быть как раз для тебя, читатель моего отзыва?
Я нахожу игру очень интересной и считаю, что в ней действительно хорошо реализованы механики выживания. Особенно радует наличие двух режимов игры: психологического триллера с призраком и режима выживания, где этого призрака можно отключить и просто сосредоточиться на выживании. Если The Long Dark можно назвать скорее «симулятором ходьбы», то Winter Survival ощущается именно как полноценный симулятор выживания зимой. Конечно, у игры есть и минусы, но на мой взгляд они не критичны. Сейчас в игре немного видов брони и оружия, а также присутствуют проблемы с оптимизацией. Тем не менее плюсы явно перевешивают недостатки, поэтому моя оценка остаётся положительной. Отдельно хочу отметить систему адаптации — она мне очень понравилась. Было бы здорово, если бы в будущем появились специальные челленджи, выполнение которых давало бы дополнительные бонусы к адаптации.
Has the potential to be good, but just has too many bugs and QoL issues. Unplayable.
Игра сырая , не рекомендую . Пустая трата времени и денег
Start survival game, get placed in a ravine surrounded by mountain walls everywhere, only way forward utterly swarmed by wolves. Tried story mode instead. Feels like it has little to no direction, random quests way too big area way too much loot you have no idea what to do with. Just such a confusing chaotic mess. Barely understandable how to craft, what to craft, how to hunt, fight, kill, loot, scavenge, etc. Needs dramatic streamlining and overhaul as is, otherwise just not fun to play.
i regret every minute
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