In pretty much all survival games, whether zombie, post-nuclear or just deserted islands, the gameplay is less survival and more warfare. Throughout the Fallout-series I have killed more bandits than mutants and animals put together, and videogame houses in general tend to have more guns and ammo than comestibles.
I facepalmed so hard when Terminator Salvation had humans hoping machines would leave them alone while trying to rape the resistance members, and Resident Evil Extinction had an entire family dedicated to torturing survivors while living in the middle of a zombie apocalypse!
So, are there any games where the survival would just mean survival in a dangerous environment? I'd like to play a game where radiation, malnutrition and infections kill more people than the player character. I'm not against combat per se, but most of the time the "surival" means picking up a can of beans while collecting shotgun shells and fending off hordes of bandits a day.
Games I know this far:
Stranded I and II - Light shipwreck survival games, but still entertaining.
Burntime - Old, post-nuclear game.
Cataclysm Roguelike - An excellent apocalypse-surival game where food spoils, cold weather and dirty water make you sick, and entertainment and narcotics are needed to keep your morale up.
Unreal World - Pretty accurate game about life in iron age Finland. Also rare in that it includes weather and temperature hazards.
I facepalmed so hard when Terminator Salvation had humans hoping machines would leave them alone while trying to rape the resistance members, and Resident Evil Extinction had an entire family dedicated to torturing survivors while living in the middle of a zombie apocalypse!
So, are there any games where the survival would just mean survival in a dangerous environment? I'd like to play a game where radiation, malnutrition and infections kill more people than the player character. I'm not against combat per se, but most of the time the "surival" means picking up a can of beans while collecting shotgun shells and fending off hordes of bandits a day.
Games I know this far:
Stranded I and II - Light shipwreck survival games, but still entertaining.
Burntime - Old, post-nuclear game.
Cataclysm Roguelike - An excellent apocalypse-surival game where food spoils, cold weather and dirty water make you sick, and entertainment and narcotics are needed to keep your morale up.
Unreal World - Pretty accurate game about life in iron age Finland. Also rare in that it includes weather and temperature hazards.