Everything is terrible and you’re probably going to die. That’s also the premise of survival games. Don’t Starve and Subnautica are in here, as well as No Man’s Sky, which – mm, does feel like a bit of a stretch.
The Gothic in Resident Evil
I’m not a long-time Resident Evil fan. This and Silent Hill – I really feel very underqualified to talk about any of these games, especially in terms of the longer running reception. Really the extent of my exposure is that I watched a playthrough of Resident Evil 7 in 2017, and then I obviously heard…
This War of Mine: On the City
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis is a 2021 survival and base-building game from Black Eye Games. Set in the universe of Gloria Victis, an online medieval MMORPG from 2016, Siege Survival follows the citizens of Edring as they are besieged by a foreign army. The game has you sneak out into the city and scavenge resources,…
Flotsam: Politics or Psychology?
As I write this, I’m playing Flotsam, an early access game about sailing round the ocean after the apocalypse. Climate change has come to a head, the world is flooded, and all you can do is sail around and scavenge bits of plastic to knot together on your little tug. It’s very obviously about pollution…
Subnautica Below Zero: The Problem With Survival Sequels
So there’s this funny little quirk with survival stories where they often have trouble writing a sequel. Usually, the premise of the survival story is that something’s gone wrong and someone’s been accidentally stranded. When it comes to writing a sequel, the writer has to figure out how to get their protagonist back into trouble…
No Man’s Sky: Divine Design
Here’s a puzzle for you. Below, I’ve set up three pictures from a world in No Man’s Sky. Can you tell whether they were taken from one small area, or from three different sides of the world? It’s hard to tell, huh. If you haven’t played No Man’s Sky, you might put your hand up…
Mewnbase: On Emptiness and Earth
My high school English teacher used to have one of those posters with the ‘you can’t eat money’ proverb. ‘Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise that we can’t eat money.’ I feel like I only really got that idea…
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Death is a Whale 