Clarity: to reiterate what was said in the review. At this stage, the game is like an early Minecraft or Terraria in terms of content but the core gameplay is there. Unlike those games, the Monkey Mimick system will take a lot of time to fully utilise and when you've mastered you'll have your monkey army filling an island! Remember you can get them to follow you and take them to your "home" Island. Good luck! Bugs: A couple of things I wanted to mention. I've had no crashes, I did have a bad bug where I couldn't rotate certain things you can build but thought it was me being silly as the chairs can be rotated. Turns out it's a bug! Last bug I had was a minor visual one. One of my little images on items got "stuck" as something it wasn't! Here is our Suvivalists review - it might be worth checking out our recent list of other survival games on Switch if you’re a fan of the genre. Check it out here - ua-cam.com/video/nayBWb5ExMw/v-deo.html . Seeeeya! Mark
Sorry but i disagree with this review. I've played the full release and i highly recommend no one buy it. Also i unlocked everything in less than 5 hours and there's barely anything to do after a very short time.
It's not a problem to disagree - I mentioned in the review that you'll unlock the basic recipes quite quickly, but there are secrets and the templs runs to do and playing with a friend is very fun. I also mentioned the similarities to an early build of Terraria or Minecraft. The core is here for a great game it will need expansion over time.
Awwww this one looks adorable! Bet it would be fun to see exactly how massive you can make your base camp and if course growing a literal monkey army is always enticing!!! 💕
Hey Switchup! I was wondering, is the co-op mode available on the same screen requires additional pair of joy-cons or can you play it with only one pair? Thank you!
Burnt out on survival games just from some other marathons with friends, but this does have a nice look to it. I'm loving the monkey system though, reminds me of the zombies from graveyard keeper but has the learning and teaching style like the ghost system from Forza games, kind of cool to have to teach then what you want to do.
I played the demo of this one, it was a regular game until I learnt I can train the monkeys! There was the gang collecting stuff and killing enemies around me, building my fortress. What a blast!
Came to get an opinion, as to whether I should just buy it now or continue with the demo for a bit. Based on your clear and concise views I may purchase it later, cheers.
My wife and I just preordered this ! Def can’t wait to give it a try! We were kinda bummed when we realized the switch didn’t have “Don’t Starve Together”, so we’ve been looking forward to a coop survival game.
Make sure you have Two switches as this title cannot be local co op played on just one, It requires two switches to play local co-op. There is no split screen.
Started playing the demo of this last night and I like it but I think as you say a slow burner, a lot of learning to be done, especially control wise for me at least lol! I'm going to try and complete the demo and I'll possibly get the physical edition of it. Great entertaining review as always!
I really loved playing the demo they had on the Eshop, and I'm looking forward to playing it when it releases! Definitely looks like it would be fun to play with friends also
I went to the comments to hopefully hear some opinions on the game. There wasn't a single comment more recent than 4 months ago, which was before the game came out on switch I think lol.
Great video again guys and defo sold on this one. Keep up the great work you both do. Not xenophobic but it is nice to hear British accents doing games reviews for me as it always makes me think of growing up watching things like games master. Nice one Cyril
@@Mrdeniro100 having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries. I just meant I enjoyed hearing them saying things in their British accents (I am from the UK) as most of the people I watch doing games reviews are American. I have nothing against Americans or the wide range of American accents (or other languages and accents from around the world for that matter) but them speaking in their very British way made me think of the game review tv shows I watched when I was young (very late 80’s to early 90’s) called Gamesmaster. I didn’t want to come across wrong like a Xenophobe or something saying something about their accents as I know some people can take things the wrong way sometimes. I puts me off leaving posts or comments on things quite often as it seems someone gets offended by anything that is said nowadays. It was my rubbish attempt to cover myself from bad reply’s I guess :-)
Hey! Just a heads up (not sure if you’ll even see this necro-comment), but the deluxe edition of The Survivalists is on-sale in the US eshop for 90% off until the 25th of August, making it a whopping US$2.69 (or your regional equivalent 😅).
Amazing review i was really looking for new survival game i play don't starve and portal knights and terraria I was so pessimistic that close to buy Minecraft. xD and try what can offer 😂 now thanks to you i can see my next one
One of the game i was about to download the demo and never did it. After the review i might get it, sounds very cool and training monkeys is super cool feature
I liked The Escapists, and I'm liking the look of The Survivalists. Now I just need to wait for the pandemic to end so I can bring my friends over and play together to make this worth the buy!
I left this on my wishlist and it went down to half price but I checked the eshop again after seeing people here saying the deluxe edition is 2.69 and still is. Thanks guys, I just purchased it.
Already preordered this. Gonna be playing this along with Green Hell this weekend. :D So many survival games coming to the switch at once. My wallet is crying.
If this was a IGN review you'd probably heard " I keep dying because I didn't bother upgrading this item" BTW any bugs or glitches that you have encountered?
Thanks again I had no idea about this one. Oddly the monkey system has me really interested it reminds me of using pigs in Don't Starve but better. The graphics and gameplay look great I'll have to get it.
Iv just been shopping on ebay for the first time. I wrote a list of games that I'd seen on here to buy as iv just started playing the switch and I managed to grab this game for 8quid on there. It's amazing if you use the ending soonest tab. I haven't spent over 25 quid on 19 games!!!
I sit close to the TV to play video games too bro it's all good. I'm mostly blind though so you probably aren't within a foot of the display like me lol love yalls videos though keep up the great work.
I've tried the demo but I kinda don't like the controls especially with the monkeys. Feels kind of clunky. But I'm really interested with this game. Might try again that demo and if I like it will buy this and add to my backlog. 🤣
This looks lovely! I've been looking for a cute survival game to play with my SO, this could be perfect especially at a discount, I do wonder how bad the controls are, seeing this is an early review with bugs most likely fixed by now. Delay on controls can range from well implemented "challenging survival" to egregious unplayable slog, while it doesn't have to be dark souls rolls levels of speed I am a bit worried especially because I love playing melee over range. Would you say it was bearable aside for running? I'm also worried about network, the switch is not the best on any wireless 😅 I think I'll give it a try, at least every other elements seems perfect.
I just bought this after the demo sadly if you don't pre order to get the dlc its 2 to 3 dollars extra but I did pre order because I played the demo and really enjoyed it so I can't wait to enjoy it
The demo was great & im excited to give this a go with my sister since we always play survival games like this together & we also loved the escapists games too!! I’m a collector so I have to wait a bit for the physical copy tho 😭😭
I do see the Stardew resemblance but has no one at SwitchUp played The Escapists 2? The visual style of The Survivalists is basically a more polished version of the visuals in that game. (Very fun game, by the way; I recommend it to anyone reading that hasn't yet tried it.)
Looks fun but just 10-12 hours to beat has me worried do you know if there is any post game? Or how would you score the replay value to something like terraria?
Oh okay cool I will take the dive and give it a go hopefully its something they build upon and add more content, thanks for the reply much appreciated!.
I usually love Team17's offerings, but the demo for this one just didn't quite sell me. I prefer a little more action in survival games to offset the monotony of the gathering/crafting loop, and the combat in this just felt kind of sluggish. Same with the movement in general really. And I just picked up a little gem on PC last week called Autonauts that executes the "minion training" aspect of this game to a degree that I can't see The Survivalists competing with. So there's not much appealing to me with this one sadly. I'll nab it on sale because Team17 though. Great review!
I'm kinda torn on this, it looks good but I absolutely hated the escapists. I do love games like Don't starve though and this seems to be a less intense take on that. $30 bucks Canadian is a hard sell though, I will wait for a sale to maybe pick this up.
I'd been eagerly awaiting this title since I saw the first videos, I downloaded the Switch demo and initially loved it! But after dying for nth time either on my way back to camp inthe dark, or in the first dungeon I happened across, love quickly turned into frustration and I just switched it off. I expected a learning curve, but wow! It was brutal! It just completely put me off, sadly.
When talking about the frame rate, it looks choppy... Is this just the UA-cam video or is it perhaps a frame pacing issue? - most famous in Bloodborne where frames are delivered with the wrong timing though the framerate is solid.
Clarity: to reiterate what was said in the review. At this stage, the game is like an early Minecraft or Terraria in terms of content but the core gameplay is there. Unlike those games, the Monkey Mimick system will take a lot of time to fully utilise and when you've mastered you'll have your monkey army filling an island! Remember you can get them to follow you and take them to your "home" Island. Good luck!
Bugs: A couple of things I wanted to mention. I've had no crashes, I did have a bad bug where I couldn't rotate certain things you can build but thought it was me being silly as the chairs can be rotated. Turns out it's a bug! Last bug I had was a minor visual one. One of my little images on items got "stuck" as something it wasn't!
Here is our Suvivalists review - it might be worth checking out our recent list of other survival games on Switch if you’re a fan of the genre. Check it out here - ua-cam.com/video/nayBWb5ExMw/v-deo.html . Seeeeya! Mark
Sorry but i disagree with this review. I've played the full release and i highly recommend no one buy it. Also i unlocked everything in less than 5 hours and there's barely anything to do after a very short time.
It's not a problem to disagree - I mentioned in the review that you'll unlock the basic recipes quite quickly, but there are secrets and the templs runs to do and playing with a friend is very fun. I also mentioned the similarities to an early build of Terraria or Minecraft. The core is here for a great game it will need expansion over time.
Awwww this one looks adorable! Bet it would be fun to see exactly how massive you can make your base camp and if course growing a literal monkey army is always enticing!!! 💕
Hey Switchup! I was wondering, is the co-op mode available on the same screen requires additional pair of joy-cons or can you play it with only one pair? Thank you!
It’s $2.69 right now so why not
I think it's the best game I've ever played 😍
I think its like that all the time
Exactly why I’m here right now. Just bought it on PlayStation Store because I couldn’t pass up a 3$ game.
This looks and feels like don't starve together, but more brighter and friendlier like stardew valley. Except the monkeys, they are great.
Exactly what I was thinking
Bob Ross avatar I see
Lmao
That’s awesome! I was excited to see what you guys think of this one. The whole Monkey aspect seems really fun.
Burnt out on survival games just from some other marathons with friends, but this does have a nice look to it. I'm loving the monkey system though, reminds me of the zombies from graveyard keeper but has the learning and teaching style like the ghost system from Forza games, kind of cool to have to teach then what you want to do.
Reminds me of my honeymoon to the Maldives with my first wife.
Music sounds like some oldschool Vangelis! Incredible
I played the demo of this one, it was a regular game until I learnt I can train the monkeys! There was the gang collecting stuff and killing enemies around me, building my fortress. What a blast!
Yeah it's a very cool mechanic! Mark
I bought the game 2 days a go in the e-sale after watching your video again and absolutly loves it. Very addictive! Thank you guys!
how much fps is it?
How much fps is it?
Fps how much?
Any word on the fps?
I forgot this one was out this week, thank u for reminding me . Looks fun might have to pick it up for that price. Thanks again boys
What is?
What is?
@SwitchUp The never getting rained on bit sounds like a god send to us BotW players 😂😂
I’ve been waiting for The Survivalists for a while now, and it’s finally out today... that will be the game I treat myself to this week. Cheers!
You've got the Ben 10 title card at the opening.
Upcoming review!
Hopefully Mark "survives" playing it, because it's probably awful. XD
Yeah I noticed that straight away.
Lol not anymore! Mark
@@SwitchUpYt Perfect :D It didn't take away from the video at all - awesome content as possible.
Came to get an opinion, as to whether I should just buy it now or continue with the demo for a bit. Based on your clear and concise views I may purchase it later, cheers.
If it's a tropical island, it won't snow. But it should have rained a lot.
My wife and I just preordered this ! Def can’t wait to give it a try! We were kinda bummed when we realized the switch didn’t have “Don’t Starve Together”, so we’ve been looking forward to a coop survival game.
Make sure you have Two switches as this title cannot be local co op played on just one, It requires two switches to play local co-op. There is no split screen.
kimbercustompro1911 we do☺️ she made sure to get a lite a few months back ☺️
Started playing the demo of this last night and I like it but I think as you say a slow burner, a lot of learning to be done, especially control wise for me at least lol! I'm going to try and complete the demo and I'll possibly get the physical edition of it. Great entertaining review as always!
Thank you for the Review! I've just subcribed! Looking forward for more great Reviews, Trailers and Videos!
Greetings from Germany :)
Did I spy a Bob Ross look alike?! Haha great job fellas🍌
The first sale possible, I'll get it.
Me too... here in Brazil, 24 Us dollars are quite salty...
It looks like a cool game and nice design
Its on sale right now
On sale for 20 bucks atm
I hope they add weather effects. I love me some rain so hearing it never rains made me sad
I really loved playing the demo they had on the Eshop, and I'm looking forward to playing it when it releases! Definitely looks like it would be fun to play with friends also
For anyone interested it’s on sale for $6 on the eshop. 2 days left!!!
So, excuse me if I’m being totally blind here, but when will game winners be announced? I’ve been itching to see that this week!
I think we'll do one tonight, what do you reckon? Fun day Friday! Been such a crazy week this week sorry for the delay! Mark
SwitchUp No problem! Starting with the weekend sounds great!
I went to the comments to hopefully hear some opinions on the game. There wasn't a single comment more recent than 4 months ago, which was before the game came out on switch I think lol.
Nice one! Great review!
Cheers Peter!
Great video again guys and defo sold on this one. Keep up the great work you both do. Not xenophobic but it is nice to hear British accents doing games reviews for me as it always makes me think of growing up watching things like games master. Nice one Cyril
Very cool! Mark
Maybe I'm being a bit slow but what is xenophobic?
@@Mrdeniro100 having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries. I just meant I enjoyed hearing them saying things in their British accents (I am from the UK) as most of the people I watch doing games reviews are American. I have nothing against Americans or the wide range of American accents (or other languages and accents from around the world for that matter) but them speaking in their very British way made me think of the game review tv shows I watched when I was young (very late 80’s to early 90’s) called Gamesmaster. I didn’t want to come across wrong like a Xenophobe or something saying something about their accents as I know some people can take things the wrong way sometimes. I puts me off leaving posts or comments on things quite often as it seems someone gets offended by anything that is said nowadays. It was my rubbish attempt to cover myself from bad reply’s I guess :-)
Hey! Just a heads up (not sure if you’ll even see this necro-comment), but the deluxe edition of The Survivalists is on-sale in the US eshop for 90% off until the 25th of August, making it a whopping US$2.69 (or your regional equivalent 😅).
Think that counts as a savaloy!😂 I just picked it up.
man I was just searching this for switch (actually watchin another review😱) just now and this popped up cheers 👍
"Ouh ouh ah ah monkeys" Priceless. xD
Great review thanks guys!
Amazing review i was really looking for new survival game i play don't starve and portal knights and terraria I was so pessimistic that close to buy Minecraft. xD and try what can offer 😂 now thanks to you i can see my next one
Another title added to the wishlist! Great review!
Another great review, thanks SwitchUp.
Thanks for this! Great review. Downloading the demo now and if I enjoy, I shall be purchasing a little later today.
Looks amazing, the idea is so unique :)
Hi Mark, Great review as always.. looks fun to play, does the demo do this game any justice? Will you do a Green Hell review?
I've been waiting for this review!! ♥ now.. Let's find out!
oh wait that's not my line.
Reminds me of a game where you were stranded that I had on my mobile back in 2008 and I loved that and love this
Is Tom Hanks a playable character?
Noo but now I’m gonna name my player that haha
No but Wilson is! 😆
Bob Ross is! Lol Mark
Happy little trees make a happy little raft.
With other news, Epstein Island will the next DLC.
Great review, will definitely be getting this one
This reminds me of the old Konami game Survival Kids on the Game Boy.
One of the game i was about to download the demo and never did it. After the review i might get it, sounds very cool and training monkeys is super cool feature
Man I hope you guys review Ikenfell, it's great!
Guessing Ben 10 is the next review video based on this title card? Hehe.
Xelthos Uhhhhhhhhm
Gonna pick this up, looks like a game I will sink some hours into
I liked The Escapists, and I'm liking the look of The Survivalists. Now I just need to wait for the pandemic to end so I can bring my friends over and play together to make this worth the buy!
I left this on my wishlist and it went down to half price but I checked the eshop again after seeing people here saying the deluxe edition is 2.69 and still is. Thanks guys, I just purchased it.
Good video very informative. Thanks
Great review as always Mark!
Thanks for the review. I think I'll be snagging this one.
Already preordered this. Gonna be playing this along with Green Hell this weekend. :D
So many survival games coming to the switch at once. My wallet is crying.
If this was a IGN review you'd probably heard " I keep dying because I didn't bother upgrading this item"
BTW any bugs or glitches that you have encountered?
Yeah I'm going to put a few more bugs in the top comment
Thanks again I had no idea about this one. Oddly the monkey system has me really interested it reminds me of using pigs in Don't Starve but better. The graphics and gameplay look great I'll have to get it.
I remember Survival Kids on the GBC and loved that title. This is like that?
Iv just been shopping on ebay for the first time. I wrote a list of games that I'd seen on here to buy as iv just started playing the switch and I managed to grab this game for 8quid on there. It's amazing if you use the ending soonest tab. I haven't spent over 25 quid on 19 games!!!
Not giving up 9th Dawn III yet 🤩
I sit close to the TV to play video games too bro it's all good. I'm mostly blind though so you probably aren't within a foot of the display like me lol love yalls videos though keep up the great work.
I've tried the demo but I kinda don't like the controls especially with the monkeys. Feels kind of clunky. But I'm really interested with this game. Might try again that demo and if I like it will buy this and add to my backlog. 🤣
I tried the demo also and felt the controls to be quite clunky and not optimized well for the Nintendo switch
This looks lovely!
I've been looking for a cute survival game to play with my SO, this could be perfect especially at a discount, I do wonder how bad the controls are, seeing this is an early review with bugs most likely fixed by now.
Delay on controls can range from well implemented "challenging survival" to egregious unplayable slog, while it doesn't have to be dark souls rolls levels of speed I am a bit worried especially because I love playing melee over range. Would you say it was bearable aside for running?
I'm also worried about network, the switch is not the best on any wireless 😅
I think I'll give it a try, at least every other elements seems perfect.
I just bought this after the demo sadly if you don't pre order to get the dlc its 2 to 3 dollars extra but I did pre order because I played the demo and really enjoyed it so I can't wait to enjoy it
Looks good. May give it a try.
The demo was great & im excited to give this a go with my sister since we always play survival games like this together & we also loved the escapists games too!! I’m a collector so I have to wait a bit for the physical copy tho 😭😭
princesslukeia Yeah it is definitely more fun with someone else but you’ll need 2 consoles!
SwitchUp we both have switches so it’s fine 🥰🥰🥰🥰
love the art style
I'm not sure whether or not to pick this up, I've never played the genre. I've just found a copy going cheap. 🤔
It’s a decent little game if you enjoy this style. Mark
Nice review, I hope you will also review the game Ikenfell. 😁
I keep thinking I want this game. So glad you guys reviewed it. Now I'll know for sure if I should get it or not.
I do see the Stardew resemblance but has no one at SwitchUp played The Escapists 2? The visual style of The Survivalists is basically a more polished version of the visuals in that game. (Very fun game, by the way; I recommend it to anyone reading that hasn't yet tried it.)
Not enough to really make a comparison based on experience no :D
Looks fun but just 10-12 hours to beat has me worried do you know if there is any post game? Or how would you score the replay value to something like terraria?
Yeah I've not maxed this out no way. It's a much much longer game and has tons of relatability online. Think Minecraft. Mark
Oh okay cool I will take the dive and give it a go hopefully its something they build upon and add more content, thanks for the reply much appreciated!.
Does the co-op include two players on one Switch, or only with multiple Switches?
From what I've seen you'll need 2 switches! Mark
On sales atm ✨
So excited for this game :)
Monkey army simulator. I have seen it all now.
My girlfriend and i are loving it so far!
How do y’all play together? Share same switch? Or do you each have your own? Or can the remotes be used separately?
Thanks for showing lava. Now im curious if any islands are frozen
I couldn't find any but I'm hopeful! Mark
Can you write support languages to choose in game?
When you say "you can play multiplayer locally", do you mean with one switch or with several games and consoles?
Local wireless , needs 2 switch atleast
I usually love Team17's offerings, but the demo for this one just didn't quite sell me. I prefer a little more action in survival games to offset the monotony of the gathering/crafting loop, and the combat in this just felt kind of sluggish. Same with the movement in general really. And I just picked up a little gem on PC last week called Autonauts that executes the "minion training" aspect of this game to a degree that I can't see The Survivalists competing with. So there's not much appealing to me with this one sadly. I'll nab it on sale because Team17 though. Great review!
Agreed, Team17 are very good developers
This reminds me of Don't Starve more than anything else
I'm kinda torn on this, it looks good but I absolutely hated the escapists. I do love games like Don't starve though and this seems to be a less intense take on that. $30 bucks Canadian is a hard sell though, I will wait for a sale to maybe pick this up.
hey whos play the survivalist in nintendo switch. need to know how to rotate crafted item before place it on ground?
Well it’s not Bacon Man but I’ll watch anyways
Well, that another game to add to the 'to buy' list. Thanks
I'd been eagerly awaiting this title since I saw the first videos, I downloaded the Switch demo and initially loved it! But after dying for nth time either on my way back to camp inthe dark, or in the first dungeon I happened across, love quickly turned into frustration and I just switched it off. I expected a learning curve, but wow! It was brutal! It just completely put me off, sadly.
Skill issue
Skill issue, invalid opinion.
@@user-lr6ce1mw4k Inability to correctly type a complete sentence or correct error after posting, invalid comment, opinion irrelevant.
Am i the only one having a problem with the local wireless co-op?? It always says connection error
This just reminds me of Dont Starve Shipwrecked
Game looks great picked up the demo and the game
Is there an end?
This gamenis so fun i played a good 20 hours or so just in the demo
Me too.
I went from wanting this, to being like meh, and now wanting it again after this. I think I will wait for a sale as I am still obsessed with Hades.
Yeah it needs a patch or two I think to add some more content. It's very much early stage Minecraft
if you’re obsessed with hades, you’ll love dead cells.
@@mintymuch Already have it and love it!
When talking about the frame rate, it looks choppy... Is this just the UA-cam video or is it perhaps a frame pacing issue? - most famous in Bloodborne where frames are delivered with the wrong timing though the framerate is solid.
No it's very smooth, more likely a glitch in the recording software. Mark
Shout-out to ya boi Evan.
I try demo
I like the game
And i will buy it
This review was decent!
How to change language in this game?
00:00 *Click* "Nice"
I can already tell it’s good cause escapist kinda and terraria let’s see
Now time to watch
Nice i love Terraria and this looks like it could scratch that itch. Thanks.
No Local Coop. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. What a missed opportunity.
Shame
Monkey mimic system has me 😂😂😂😂