If you are not hardcore and serious about learning and researching dont even bother with Oxygen not included, I watched xqc play it on Kick and he didnt bother to learn anything so ofcourse it was hopeless. But if you take it serious, its a FANTASTIC game. Also Rimworld is good and missing from this list.
Well you're a nobody though, so your grade means nothing they have almost 10 mill subscribers 😂 you're smaller than a grain of salt, I mean that literally you couldn't unsub right now and they wouldn't notice 😂😂😂😂 see how unimportant you are?
The Long Dark feels like it's actually part of my life. The beauty and immersion is indescribable. When I die, I lay it aside and come back to it months or years later, that's how much it bothers me. And I never play it in summer.
Yea cause they forgot to add Deadrising where time is your enemy and you need to survive while saving other survivors from zombies and other enemies. It's harder than your pizza debt
Kenshi should be on this list. It can be called brutal. Even the quest to do something basic can land you in a situation where you are killed, eaten, looted or enslaved. You would be glad if you only lost a limb but managed to survive.
@@gameranxTV after Vintage Story it's probably Project Zomboid and Oxygen Not Included. I've enjoyed the majority of these though 😂. Not as big on the FPS focused ones like Rust and SCUM they're not interesting imo
Thrilled to see Stationeers and Vintage Story on here! Highly recommend both of these! As far as Unreal World, get it on a deep sale if at all. It's a neat concept, but the actual gameplay is very thin. You'll be bored of it within a couple of hours.
I'm surprised 7D2D wasn't on the list as it can be punishingly difficult at higher levels with everything dialed up. Hell just surviving your first Bloodmoon on higher difficulties is hard.
I remember my first times playing DayZ and Project Zomboid. I jumped over a railing in DayZ, broke my leg, had no splinters or the knowledge to make one and crawled around until I finally got put out of my misery by a lone zombie stumbling around near the hangers by the water. Another time I had lost a lot of blood and found a medical house with blood bags. I IV'd myself, only to then find out that I didn't know which blood type I was. Of course it was not a compatible one that I had just IV'd myself with 😆 In Zomboid, I got out of my starting house, stealthed around a bit, found another house, opened a window, house alarm started, got swarmed, ran to another house, broke the window, jumped through, got cut by the glass and then got cornered by all the zombies. It was really silly but I laughed my ass off from how paniced I was and how those unfortunate events played out, it was like a comedy 😂
Not many people might know this about " The Long Dark " game, but you lose everything in the chapter with the jail and the inmates. Every time you enter the jail, the guy at the door takes everything from you (the player), so the next time you do a job for them you have nothing, not even food or water with you. What " I " did in that chapter is that i found a small room with a stove, bed, etc and put all the necessary stuff from my bag to the cabinet that was there. This room is near the main gate of the jail, a few meters away from the main door. Leave everything you might need in there, otherwise you are going to make your life even harder.
I still haven't played chapter 4 because of the prison theme. I thought the first 3 chapters was great. I did know about storing items to keep them from being taken. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just do it before chapter 5 comes out.
I never tried the story mode. Is it linear? or like a Sanbox mode with npc? I only play the sandbox mode. and I want NPC around like in a rpg game. Just like Metro series.
@@Katniss0000 Looks like the story mode is linear. I never thought about it one way or the other. I liked it better when just the 2 of them was out in the wild surviving.
@@Katniss0000 The story mode is linear with episodes. You still need to find ways to survive in the game of course, but linear. :) The only problem is (and i don't really know much about this) i think they still haven't released the 5th and last episode, meaning the ending. I don't know if the episode is still in development or they dropped the game alltogether. :(
@@XamposGR it was recently confirmed that episode 5 is in late stage of development and will be released some time after the Tales (so early-mid 2025). There was more on the website but i don't remember - i'm not particularly interested in the storymode, just the new map, sorry.
I'm surprised Subnautica isn't on this list. I've played several of these and it's my favorite one. I would include ARK, Valheim and Conan: Exiles too.
Subnautica is a great game, one of my all-time favs. But it isn't really difficult. I'd argue it's one of the more accessible survival experiences out there.
Subsistence is by far my favourite, I hate zombie games but love the challenge of grinding to get to a comfortable level. Great updates and new challenges added, worth the time to to get to know the game. Thanks for this list
I remember reaching sustainability in The Long Dark. They added the story mode after I stopped playing so maybe they made it harder then? But I do remember having a loop of hunting and chilling in a house with huge stack of food and skipping days until I got bored since I had nothing else to aim for, but getting to that point was pretty hard.
It's technically possible (at least in Survival mode) since beachcombing exists. Food is easy (rabbits), but without beachcombing, eventually one would use all the cloth/metal in the game for repairs, and while it's also possible to survive naked, it's not easy or (in my experience) fun. But beachcombing slowly introduces new items into the world, and while only a small fraction are cloth/metal, enough are that it's possible to keep clothing and metal-based tools repaired forever. If one is good and careful that is :D
I think Falcon was unintentinally misleading here. If anything, being sustainable is now easier. Yes, you gonna run low on resources, but it takes a really long time. People survived for thousands of days BEFORE the new systems were introduced. And today you can technically survive forever, it just gets harder and you'll have to get by without some stuff. For say 500 -1000 in-game days? It's not a problem at all. You do run out of CONVENIENT resources faster. And so for newer players there is a pressure of "oh god, i looted all the buildings nearby. What do i do?!" But it only means that you have to learn to rely on hunting/fishing instead of looting.
Yes! Subsistence! It's been my favorite survival game for the many years I've been playing it. Super difficult beginning but a non-boring grind after getting established. The dev is a master at hiding/blending spawns which keeps each day feeling fresh. I agree that that beginning difficulty and grinding isn't for everyone but I find grinding relaxing and this is the only survival game that has not become boring after getting well established of all the ones I've played on your list. I agree that it's not for everyone and it is a love it or hate it type of game, but there is a cult following of super fans for a reason.
I expected SCUM to be on the list. I did NOT expect Vintage Story! For what started as a Minecraft mod, really took on a life and style of it's own and deserves a lot of love
Icarus although still being early access, deserves a mention since the game is you versus mother nature. Finally build your first little cabin after hours of playing? Make sure when you leave to farm resources you would be able to make it back so your little cabin don't get blown away by a wind storm or struck by lightning and lit on fire
yes, Icarus is a very good survival game and the different playstyle (in missions) is actually pretty good. Good modern graphics. No free oxygon (space game) new animals. highly recommended
Bohemia and DayZ get a special shout out from me for pure dedication. I spent like $20 years ago and the developers have stayed dedicated to regular updates, where they actually listen to the community for input, and allow modders to create entire maps for free (yeah I know, it takes time for the modders). Hands down the most open, friendly, and supportive gaming community I’ve ever come across. My best experiences in gaming have come from playing DayZ and the devs deserve a shoutout for helping make that a reality.
Subsistence is a hidden gem.. glad to see it on the list! If you push through the beginning the game is very rewarding. oh and the developer is in tune with the game, fixes things fast and listens to the community for updates
yeah, sounds like he's never tasted fresh green coconut water and only old brown coconuts, because green coconut water is slightly sweet and very refreshing tasting.
The Long Dark also has an awesome modding discord. They add everything from collectables to more variety of food items to candle making, and they're all super nice to a luddite like me
I've been watching the channel for years and I feel like Falcon has only really come to life over the last couple weeks, doing voices and just being totally weird on a regular basis. It's awesome!
It is nice that you have included "Project Zomboid" in here. That is an awesome game and I would recommend it to everyone who likes this genre to try it (especially the sandbox mode). Do not let the "low graphics" to discourage you from trying this game. Also, "This war of mine" is a very nice game.
this War of Mine and Dont Starve are among the most frustratingly difficult games of their kind. TWOM will make you really question your sanity when you have to decide whether to rob all the food from the old couple down the street because they are the only location where you wont get shot
I definitely took a good few tries to get up to semi-sustainability. It seems like you gotta be very fast and efficient on day 1 - axe, spear and bow (for the inevitable jaguar encounter without serious injury), basic tent, and the beginnings of self-grown crops are all something I try to fit into the first 18 game hours. If I can do that, it's medical supplies next, and once that's up, we're in business.
It's easy to complain when things irritate you, but you also have to say it when something is done well, so THANK YOU for the names of the games in the time stamps instead of the numbers :)
Green Hell is the best survival game currently out there, you can control all settings easily and the menu and system is surprisingly friendly. The recent update ruined coop, however it has multiple stories, a main campaign, survival mode ands even tree houses! It’s my favorite survival game!
Agreed; it's the only survival game I've tried that can get close to Subnautica and Long Dark in terms of mechanics and enjoyment (but yes, brutal at first).
Don't starve is easily the most difficult survival game you can play and the learning curve everytime you die and then apply those skills is very satisfying.
I love Stranded Deep, perfect balance of stress and relief when you do manage to survive! It hurt emotionally the first time I ate too much coconut trying to stop my thirst and got diarrhea 😭
I was thinking while alternating between Still Wakes The Deep and The Long Dark that a survival game that takes place on a boat on the open sea would rule. Some kind of scenario where you're the only remaining crew member of a disabled commercial ship (or a cruise liner? that'd be SICK) and while you don't have to worry about the usual boat-crew things like actual sailing and navigating, you have to single-handedly keep the thing up and running and live sustainably while you wait for rescue or just subsist, maybe even have the anchor chains break eventually and you're just drifting slowly on open ocean. Could have in depth fishing and scurvy mechanics, and stuff is always decaying and falling apart on a saltwater setting, so you'd have to weigh what parts of the ship you wanna keep maintained, shoveling coal into boilers or keeping some electricity going for an emergency radio or some industrial fishing equipment, but eventually you'll lose some or all of them. I just love how getting caught in a blizzard or stumbling into a bear cave in The Long Dark are a bigger threat than zombies or cannibals in another game, and there's few things on earth more dangerous than being alone on open ocean at night. Not sure if an "age of exploration" setting or even something recent like The Terror, or a modern oil rig would be more interesting, but either way, they're both easily terrifying without any assistance.
I'm a long time Vintage Story player and I like that you're bringing attention to the game. That being said, why is so much of your footage of the game out of date? The first scene was modern, but there are multiple scenes in your video that are far more dated than what the game looks like now. I started playing two years ago and back then it looked better than what you're showing at the end. Also I disagree that it's harder than SCUM or Rust. It's actually not that difficult once you get past the learning curve.
You dont need medical skill to use a first aid kit in cataclysm, they are containers which contain the items you use, the proficiencies and skills just effects how good you are at using them resulting in faster healing. Incredible game when you figure it out.
My Summer Car is an insane game. It's full of drunk driving, road rage, pumping septic tanks for money, and all kinds of bizarre crap. The series of youtube videos about it by robbaz are hilarious.
Subnautica, Abiotic, Conan Exiles, Grounded, Breathedge, Dwarf Fortress, Echo of the Wilds, Enshrouded, Nightengale, Forever Skies, Genesis Alpha One, Graveyard Keeper, How to Survive series, Stalker Series, Moria, Ostranauts, Pacific Drive, Raft, Rimworld, Salt, Starbound, Terraria, State of Decay Series, The Survivalists, Take on Mars, This Land is My Land, Valheim???
Rust is the game me and my son are currently enthralled with. I love the building, gathering and of course dealing with the pvp of high population servers!
Rust isn't really a permadeath game. You respawn at will on the beach, or at sleeping bags you place which have individual cooldown timers. Honorable mention to Dwarf Fortress. Rather than surviving as an individual, you are trying to survive as a sprouting colony in a world filled with hostile creatures and factions, while dealing with the moods of your dwarves. Game has been in active development for over 20 years at this point.
It's also a laxative that will dehydrate you from, y'know, crapping out your eyes. There's a limit to the amount you can drink from a shell. Obviously in normal life that's not going to be a problem. If it's all you drink then hold on tight.
he's probably a typical American who's only experience with coconuts are the old brown exports, he's obviously never tasted fresh green coconuts otherwise he'd know fresh coconut water is slightly sweet and very refreshing. like how most Americans' first and only experience of Chinese Food is panda express 🤣🤣🤣
I purchased SCUM and one day when my children grow older and I no longer work, I will give it a shot. I feel like a survival game requires hours I don't have.
There is more lines of code written for the metabolism system of SCUM, than all these games combined. Truly, its an amazing game. DayZ has nothing on SCUM. I think you glanced over SCUM in this video a bit too fast. Its faaaarrrrr more detailed than you imagine.
3 comments: 1- Stranded Deep is 4 GB. Consider that for some reason, my Ark: SE is 290 GB, and I've only played it once. Stranded is a light-footprint game. 2- Subsistence is BRUTAL. And made by ONE GUY who updates it 1 or 2x a month with fixes and content. HARDCORE, but very cool. Support a single dev. 3- Don't Starve Together has a myriad of settings now, to make it as hard or easy as you want. And it has a TON of mods. I play a game with 130+ server mods (self-hosted), and about 80-90 client mods. DST can be brutal, or as Falcon said, "for the kids".
Vintage Story not only *mentioned*, but in the #1 spot? Hell yeah. That game needs more recognition (I guess that's what you get when devs refuse to put it on Steam *or* Epic)... I love it to bits.
I love stranded deep. Such a fun game. And i remember the long dark when it first kinda came out. It was hard af and there were no guides available that i knew of. Went back to it a couple years ago and it seemed a lot easier to get started. If you get the basics down in DayZ it gets really easy and it comes down to just being a better shot than the other players
And dying because you didn't take a piss with meters that full up every 30 seconds. I'm with you guys. They suck. Life's a pain in the ass enough without a game doing the same mundane shit as in life.
Yeah, a lot of them tend to be pretty unreasonably unbalanced to inflate the difficulty. Survival game devs: we are creating the most accurate, realistic survival game to ever exist! The game: "Boy that 3kg (6.6lbs) of meat sure hit the spot. I'm set for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Now to find 3 gallons of water to wash it down." Personally, I think the difficulty should be in the complexity and environment instead of the numbers when it comes to survival games.
Try valheim. It's a great survival game that cuts out the most tedious mechanics of the genre. It gets pretty grindy for a few resources, but it's worth it.
I love vintage story. The way it is you have a sense of accomplishment from anything you do. Waiting for the big 1.20 update to launch hopefully by the end of the year so we get bigger boats and animal mounts and some more story elements.
Rust is my personal all time favourite. There are many different servers. Vanilla, modded and many differtent pve servers if you dont like pvp. (Pve servers have soooo many events and things to do. i play both.) Note: Game looks alot better now. (They used older footage here) And constantly is getting updates.
lots of missing information about Rust: 1. the companion mobile App which interacts with your IO circuitry 2. related to point 1 is of course the electricity and other game mechanics 3. you were showing old footages from like 2-3 years lol. the game developers behind this game (facepunch) is freaking awesome and deliver fresh updates every month. but yeah other than, oxygen not included and project zomboid are also crazy time sinks! really enjoyed these 3 games.
I absolutely LOVE shitting out a gun, chugging canola oil, eating a whole bag of flour, then getting popped by a guy in an orange jumpsuit camping in a bush. My favorite survival game, honestly.
Yep, didn't even scratch the surface of all SCUM has. It is the game I played the most, but at the moment I'm just waiting on updates, even make a little fun of it saying after 6k hours it gets a bit boring xD
@@drgonzo123 You'll have a blast! There's a million tips out there, but I'll just say, the radio is good, but when you get tired of it, throw on a 70s southern rock playlist from Spotify or Alexa or where ever. And restarting is very common. It takes a couple tries, but they just updated 48 hours ago to lower the difficulty a touch. Good luck!
I feel like you're not putting on "the voice" as much recently, but I kinda dig it anyway 🤷♂️💯 can definitely still tell it's you, just a bit more subdued I guess and not as extra. Good work, as always!
Dude, I'm in a wheelchair. Any game that involves walking is harder than my life
You’re living life in hardcore itself keep ur head up brodie
We need a good wheelchair game...hover-wheelchairs too?
Why don't you try walking on your hands? Then you can use your feet for high-fives and eating sandwiches. You know, the important stuff.
Does this mean your favorite genre of games are walking simulators? Lol jk.
😂❤
Hi Falcon,
It’s folks
Hey
you forgot to tell him "today we are watching your video"
@@gameranxTVdo another video where you list Patrick game and skip metaphor, paid boyo
Bro is speaking for all of us folks
I feel heard
Playing Hardcore Survival Games for fun: ❌
Playing Hardcore Survival Games to avoid Hardcore Real Life: ✅
Kind of like the meme about German factory workers getting off work and playing factory simulators.
The real grinding man
If you are not hardcore and serious about learning and researching dont even bother with Oxygen not included, I watched xqc play it on Kick and he didnt bother to learn anything so ofcourse it was hopeless. But if you take it serious, its a FANTASTIC game. Also Rimworld is good and missing from this list.
Nah thats not true, oxygen is ez af.. maybe ur just bad?
Rimworld should have been in this
I dont care who u WATCHED play it.. i play games MYSELF xD
you guys should try hardcore wow its harder than all of these
You watched xqc, I will never take your advice. Brain-dead mate.
Gameranx mentioned Vintage Story! I was not expecting that! They get an A+ from me for this list!
Also came here to say this!
The GOAT!
Well you're a nobody though, so your grade means nothing they have almost 10 mill subscribers 😂 you're smaller than a grain of salt, I mean that literally you couldn't unsub right now and they wouldn't notice 😂😂😂😂 see how unimportant you are?
I'm glad SCUM was mentioned :)
I was hoping it would be on the list too! But the lower the numbers got, i figured it wasntgoing to be on there. But it was number 1!
I think Project Zomboid is a damn near perfect survival game. And with steam workshop mods you can make it actually perfect.
too much zombies event with the parameter on low , i quited the game lol
We also have B42 coming within the next twenty years! Woo!
agreed!
Hardest thing in PZ is to live long enough so that it leaves early access.
I genuinely wish there was a FPS/TPS like Project Zomboid.. Its a great game but I just dont love the camera...
so glad that The Long Dark got a plug, I love that game!
Lot of love for that one in the comments! :D
@@gameranxTVonly game that doesn't feel like a game
Absolutely loved The Long Dark. The atmosphere, feel, and overall pace is what sets it apart.
Am I the only person that loved the first 3 chapters then when chapter 4 came out I can't get myself to play it?
the only game in the list that I feel like a true survival game. Others is just builders.
@@Katniss0000 Yes.! Thats it
The Long Dark feels like it's actually part of my life. The beauty and immersion is indescribable.
When I die, I lay it aside and come back to it months or years later, that's how much it bothers me. And I never play it in summer.
None of these games are harder than my pizza debt.
Curse you Jake Baldino!!!
He owes us all multiple pizzas.
@@NEXUS2040 a bigger farce than the ps5 pro 30th anniversary pre orders
@@tomh90s The cost will implode gameranx but free pizza is free pizza.
I’m pretty sure he just spills pizza on himself… every week.
Yea cause they forgot to add Deadrising where time is your enemy and you need to survive while saving other survivors from zombies and other enemies. It's harder than your pizza debt
Thanks for the mention
Love your game. Can’t wait for the 15th
Dayz is best. hands down. None of these games would exist w out you
Kenshi should be on this list. It can be called brutal. Even the quest to do something basic can land you in a situation where you are killed, eaten, looted or enslaved. You would be glad if you only lost a limb but managed to survive.
Ayyy glad to see Vintage Story getting its due, I've got a concerning amount of hours on that game (same goes for several games on this list)
What’s your top 3?
@@gameranxTV after Vintage Story it's probably Project Zomboid and Oxygen Not Included. I've enjoyed the majority of these though 😂. Not as big on the FPS focused ones like Rust and SCUM they're not interesting imo
@@RinVindor101nowhere near as concerning as your hours on reddit
Thrilled to see Stationeers and Vintage Story on here! Highly recommend both of these!
As far as Unreal World, get it on a deep sale if at all. It's a neat concept, but the actual gameplay is very thin. You'll be bored of it within a couple of hours.
7 days to die should have been on this list. Punishing but a lot of fun in a post-zombie apocalypse (anyone tired of this genre yet?)
7days to die is my fav :D also like DF(darkness falls mod for it)
@@LadyUsakoB Yes to Darkness Falls, also Afterlife? Yeah, that's hardcore.
I'm surprised 7D2D wasn't on the list as it can be punishingly difficult at higher levels with everything dialed up.
Hell just surviving your first Bloodmoon on higher difficulties is hard.
I cant believe it isnt.
This channel never says anything about 7 days to die in any video.. I've asked 100 times why not and never get a answer.
Thanks for including the long dark. It’s my favourite game of all time
Absolutely!
I remember my first times playing DayZ and Project Zomboid.
I jumped over a railing in DayZ, broke my leg, had no splinters or the knowledge to make one and crawled around until I finally got put out of my misery by a lone zombie stumbling around near the hangers by the water. Another time I had lost a lot of blood and found a medical house with blood bags. I IV'd myself, only to then find out that I didn't know which blood type I was. Of course it was not a compatible one that I had just IV'd myself with 😆
In Zomboid, I got out of my starting house, stealthed around a bit, found another house, opened a window, house alarm started, got swarmed, ran to another house, broke the window, jumped through, got cut by the glass and then got cornered by all the zombies. It was really silly but I laughed my ass off from how paniced I was and how those unfortunate events played out, it was like a comedy 😂
Not many people might know this about " The Long Dark " game, but you lose everything in the chapter with the jail and the inmates. Every time you enter the jail, the guy at the door takes everything from you (the player), so the next time you do a job for them you have nothing, not even food or water with you. What " I " did in that chapter is that i found a small room with a stove, bed, etc and put all the necessary stuff from my bag to the cabinet that was there. This room is near the main gate of the jail, a few meters away from the main door. Leave everything you might need in there, otherwise you are going to make your life even harder.
I still haven't played chapter 4 because of the prison theme. I thought the first 3 chapters was great. I did know about storing items to keep them from being taken. I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just do it before chapter 5 comes out.
I never tried the story mode. Is it linear? or like a Sanbox mode with npc?
I only play the sandbox mode. and I want NPC around like in a rpg game. Just like Metro series.
@@Katniss0000 Looks like the story mode is linear. I never thought about it one way or the other. I liked it better when just the 2 of them was out in the wild surviving.
@@Katniss0000 The story mode is linear with episodes. You still need to find ways to survive in the game of course, but linear. :) The only problem is (and i don't really know much about this) i think they still haven't released the 5th and last episode, meaning the ending. I don't know if the episode is still in development or they dropped the game alltogether. :(
@@XamposGR it was recently confirmed that episode 5 is in late stage of development and will be released some time after the Tales (so early-mid 2025). There was more on the website but i don't remember - i'm not particularly interested in the storymode, just the new map, sorry.
7 days to die is completely off the chain with the right mods :)
Shout out to #1-Vintage Story. My favorite survival game for several years now and its 8th anniversary tomorrow Sept 27th!
just bought it meant to buy it for a year =)
Project Zomboid is amazing. Might be the best zombie game I've ever played. Perfect for this Halloween season!
This is very true!
I'm surprised Subnautica isn't on this list. I've played several of these and it's my favorite one. I would include ARK, Valheim and Conan: Exiles too.
Maybe we’ll come back with a part 2! :)
Subnautica is a great game, one of my all-time favs.
But it isn't really difficult. I'd argue it's one of the more accessible survival experiences out there.
@@streetwind. True. It's one of the easier ones.
people, including myself, forget how hard vanilla ark with no altered settings is. it truly is a grind
@@yoitsjimmy_possibly 100s of hours to get to alpha boss lol
DayZ is hands down one of the better survival games. It took me a little bit to get the hang of it but once you get it the gunfights are unmatched.
An entire list of survival games and not one mention of the OG survival masterpiece, Oregon Trail?! Blasphemy!
You have died of dysentary. The hardest mode on oregon trail was brutal.
I'd definitely have thrown Conan Exiles on this list, I'm surprised by how rough it can be!
"This war of mine" - absolute nightmare. So good . . .
Subsistence is by far my favourite, I hate zombie games but love the challenge of grinding to get to a comfortable level. Great updates and new challenges added, worth the time to to get to know the game. Thanks for this list
I remember reaching sustainability in The Long Dark. They added the story mode after I stopped playing so maybe they made it harder then? But I do remember having a loop of hunting and chilling in a house with huge stack of food and skipping days until I got bored since I had nothing else to aim for, but getting to that point was pretty hard.
It's technically possible (at least in Survival mode) since beachcombing exists. Food is easy (rabbits), but without beachcombing, eventually one would use all the cloth/metal in the game for repairs, and while it's also possible to survive naked, it's not easy or (in my experience) fun. But beachcombing slowly introduces new items into the world, and while only a small fraction are cloth/metal, enough are that it's possible to keep clothing and metal-based tools repaired forever. If one is good and careful that is :D
I think Falcon was unintentinally misleading here. If anything, being sustainable is now easier. Yes, you gonna run low on resources, but it takes a really long time. People survived for thousands of days BEFORE the new systems were introduced. And today you can technically survive forever, it just gets harder and you'll have to get by without some stuff. For say 500 -1000 in-game days? It's not a problem at all.
You do run out of CONVENIENT resources faster. And so for newer players there is a pressure of "oh god, i looted all the buildings nearby. What do i do?!" But it only means that you have to learn to rely on hunting/fishing instead of looting.
DayZ FTW!!! Been wanting to play Project Zomboid though.
Great vid Falcon
Yes! Subsistence! It's been my favorite survival game for the many years I've been playing it. Super difficult beginning but a non-boring grind after getting established. The dev is a master at hiding/blending spawns which keeps each day feeling fresh. I agree that that beginning difficulty and grinding isn't for everyone but I find grinding relaxing and this is the only survival game that has not become boring after getting well established of all the ones I've played on your list. I agree that it's not for everyone and it is a love it or hate it type of game, but there is a cult following of super fans for a reason.
You sound different Falcon!
My bets on "recovering from a sickness"
UA-camrs are moving towards an AI generated model so they don't have to do as much work.
Avian bird flu
@@saphricpcgaming5182 ngga u sound ai generated by that comment
@@saphricpcgaming5182 not everything is AI my brother in christ
I expected SCUM to be on the list. I did NOT expect Vintage Story! For what started as a Minecraft mod, really took on a life and style of it's own and deserves a lot of love
Props to the gamers whose lives are harder than these games; they’ll never see this video. cuz they can’t afford Wi-Fi
💀
And how do you think they will see your comment?
@@Optimistic_Nihilist2022think of it like a prayer. And by that, I mean useless.
@@jamoke123lol
@@Optimistic_Nihilist2022It’s obviously not for them to see but to remind us. I really like this comment
Icarus although still being early access, deserves a mention since the game is you versus mother nature. Finally build your first little cabin after hours of playing? Make sure when you leave to farm resources you would be able to make it back so your little cabin don't get blown away by a wind storm or struck by lightning and lit on fire
yes, Icarus is a very good survival game and the different playstyle (in missions) is actually pretty good. Good modern graphics. No free oxygon (space game) new animals.
highly recommended
Bohemia and DayZ get a special shout out from me for pure dedication.
I spent like $20 years ago and the developers have stayed dedicated to regular updates, where they actually listen to the community for input, and allow modders to create entire maps for free (yeah I know, it takes time for the modders).
Hands down the most open, friendly, and supportive gaming community I’ve ever come across. My best experiences in gaming have come from playing DayZ and the devs deserve a shoutout for helping make that a reality.
Subsistence is a hidden gem.. glad to see it on the list! If you push through the beginning the game is very rewarding. oh and the developer is in tune with the game, fixes things fast and listens to the community for updates
Don't starve can be gruesome especially shipwrecked
SCUM has been my guilty pleasure that I come back to time and time again over the years.
I used to rock with you Falcon but saying coconut water doesn’t taste good has me in shambles 😅
yeah, sounds like he's never tasted fresh green coconut water and only old brown coconuts, because green coconut water is slightly sweet and very refreshing tasting.
Green hell is one of the best survival games ive played on consoles
Honestly I’d rather be in some of these games than real life😂😂😂
The Long Dark also has an awesome modding discord. They add everything from collectables to more variety of food items to candle making, and they're all super nice to a luddite like me
My Summer Car has a middle finger prompt. That's all I need to survive. ❤
LOL! :D
Man I absolutely loved Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, I really hope they make a sequel.
Ever heard of Ark?? Spawn. RAPTOR. Die. Repeat.
Yeah thats the only hard survival game and its not even on this list. BRUTALLLL
This entire list is a joke tbh tho
Ark is only hard at start. With the baby dinos, parentless randomly running around, you can get asap easy op dinos.
ARK is a great game with a community that rivals RUST in PH levels.
Ohhhhh the memories!....
I've been watching the channel for years and I feel like Falcon has only really come to life over the last couple weeks, doing voices and just being totally weird on a regular basis. It's awesome!
haha thanks for watching! :)
If I had 3 wishes one of them would be to see what Falcon looks like
google Falcon, he looks like that
It is nice that you have included "Project Zomboid" in here. That is an awesome game and I would recommend it to everyone who likes this genre to try it (especially the sandbox mode). Do not let the "low graphics" to discourage you from trying this game. Also, "This war of mine" is a very nice game.
No S.T.A.L.K.E.R series ?
this War of Mine and Dont Starve are among the most frustratingly difficult games of their kind. TWOM will make you really question your sanity when you have to decide whether to rob all the food from the old couple down the street because they are the only location where you wont get shot
Green hell is straight up madness. I've never survived past day 3.
Time to give it another go! :)
Skill issue
I definitely took a good few tries to get up to semi-sustainability. It seems like you gotta be very fast and efficient on day 1 - axe, spear and bow (for the inevitable jaguar encounter without serious injury), basic tent, and the beginnings of self-grown crops are all something I try to fit into the first 18 game hours. If I can do that, it's medical supplies next, and once that's up, we're in business.
It's easy to complain when things irritate you, but you also have to say it when something is done well, so THANK YOU for the names of the games in the time stamps instead of the numbers :)
12:12
Green Hell is the best survival game currently out there, you can control all settings easily and the menu and system is surprisingly friendly. The recent update ruined coop, however it has multiple stories, a main campaign, survival mode ands even tree houses! It’s my favorite survival game!
Ok, I'll say it. No Valheim?
wow seeing vintage story at the end of this blows my mind its come so far 🥲 a game that i truely love
Just started the video, idk whats on the list yet. But i gotta say..
Green Hell is brutal
Fun game tho once you get into the swing of it
Agreed; it's the only survival game I've tried that can get close to Subnautica and Long Dark in terms of mechanics and enjoyment (but yes, brutal at first).
it is even relaxing when you are self sufficient. but becomes a horror game when the tribe shows up. lol
Hello there and friendly greetings!
So good finally you have mentioned SUBSISTENCE and SCUM! It was about time!
😉
Whack that 7 days to die didn't make the list, but DayZ did.
Love getting off work and checking gameranx. It’s become a part of my everyday life
Hey we appreciate you!
What happened to 7 days to die . I was sure that would make the list 😮
Great video! Would love to see a video like "Top 10/20 hardest game mechanics to master"
Keep up the good work!
Ark, Subnautica, 7 Days? All not on the list?? WTF
Don't starve is easily the most difficult survival game you can play and the learning curve everytime you die and then apply those skills is very satisfying.
I take better care of my DayZ character than myself sometimes
I love Stranded Deep, perfect balance of stress and relief when you do manage to survive! It hurt emotionally the first time I ate too much coconut trying to stop my thirst and got diarrhea 😭
I wish some of these were on console. Espec. Project Zomboid. Always wanted to try that one.
Fingers crossed!
I was thinking while alternating between Still Wakes The Deep and The Long Dark that a survival game that takes place on a boat on the open sea would rule. Some kind of scenario where you're the only remaining crew member of a disabled commercial ship (or a cruise liner? that'd be SICK) and while you don't have to worry about the usual boat-crew things like actual sailing and navigating, you have to single-handedly keep the thing up and running and live sustainably while you wait for rescue or just subsist, maybe even have the anchor chains break eventually and you're just drifting slowly on open ocean.
Could have in depth fishing and scurvy mechanics, and stuff is always decaying and falling apart on a saltwater setting, so you'd have to weigh what parts of the ship you wanna keep maintained, shoveling coal into boilers or keeping some electricity going for an emergency radio or some industrial fishing equipment, but eventually you'll lose some or all of them. I just love how getting caught in a blizzard or stumbling into a bear cave in The Long Dark are a bigger threat than zombies or cannibals in another game, and there's few things on earth more dangerous than being alone on open ocean at night. Not sure if an "age of exploration" setting or even something recent like The Terror, or a modern oil rig would be more interesting, but either way, they're both easily terrifying without any assistance.
Rust doesn't even sound fun.
It's not
@@SneakyStabz13 it is if you play on those x3, x5, x10 servers. but vanilla no.
Stranded deep. Surprised to have seen this on the list. This game was enjoyable way more than i expected
I'm a long time Vintage Story player and I like that you're bringing attention to the game. That being said, why is so much of your footage of the game out of date? The first scene was modern, but there are multiple scenes in your video that are far more dated than what the game looks like now. I started playing two years ago and back then it looked better than what you're showing at the end.
Also I disagree that it's harder than SCUM or Rust. It's actually not that difficult once you get past the learning curve.
You dont need medical skill to use a first aid kit in cataclysm, they are containers which contain the items you use, the proficiencies and skills just effects how good you are at using them resulting in faster healing. Incredible game when you figure it out.
Project Zomboid is the best game on this list, My summer car is also really good
My Summer Car is an insane game. It's full of drunk driving, road rage, pumping septic tanks for money, and all kinds of bizarre crap. The series of youtube videos about it by robbaz are hilarious.
Subnautica, Abiotic, Conan Exiles, Grounded, Breathedge, Dwarf Fortress, Echo of the Wilds, Enshrouded, Nightengale, Forever Skies, Genesis Alpha One, Graveyard Keeper, How to Survive series, Stalker Series, Moria, Ostranauts, Pacific Drive, Raft, Rimworld, Salt, Starbound, Terraria, State of Decay Series, The Survivalists, Take on Mars, This Land is My Land, Valheim???
Rust is the game me and my son are currently enthralled with. I love the building, gathering and of course dealing with the pvp of high population servers!
Im digging the new 7 days to die. Little annoyed I had to buy it again, and that I cant power level crafting... but overall pretty happy with it.
Realistic stamina. Feel like a genuine couch potato released into the wild.
Nice! Did we miss any games that should have been featured in this list?
Rust isn't really a permadeath game. You respawn at will on the beach, or at sleeping bags you place which have individual cooldown timers.
Honorable mention to Dwarf Fortress. Rather than surviving as an individual, you are trying to survive as a sprouting colony in a world filled with hostile creatures and factions, while dealing with the moods of your dwarves. Game has been in active development for over 20 years at this point.
Oregon trail. Someone needs to make a red dead mod tale tale style of Oregon trail.
Red dead 2 engine but Oregon trail story! Would be sick!
To me, Ark Survival Evolved (original version) is the best survival game ever.
7 days to die!!!! ❤
Project zomeboid is the greatest survival game I've ever played. It made it harder to get into other survival games because of how well it was done.
I didn't really care for it, i couldn't really get immersed but I'm still trying to give it a fair shot
1:47 Hey, coconut milk, fresh from the shell, is delicious.
He’s American if it not high fructose or from a another animal they don’t want it 😂
It's also a laxative that will dehydrate you from, y'know, crapping out your eyes. There's a limit to the amount you can drink from a shell. Obviously in normal life that's not going to be a problem. If it's all you drink then hold on tight.
he's probably a typical American who's only experience with coconuts are the old brown exports, he's obviously never tasted fresh green coconuts otherwise he'd know fresh coconut water is slightly sweet and very refreshing. like how most Americans' first and only experience of Chinese Food is panda express 🤣🤣🤣
I respect anyone who plays these, I never have the patience but I find survival games fascinating
I purchased SCUM and one day when my children grow older and I no longer work, I will give it a shot. I feel like a survival game requires hours I don't have.
There is more lines of code written for the metabolism system of SCUM, than all these games combined. Truly, its an amazing game. DayZ has nothing on SCUM. I think you glanced over SCUM in this video a bit too fast. Its faaaarrrrr more detailed than you imagine.
Sounds really boring
@@theohadz7118 realism is not for everyone.
3 comments:
1- Stranded Deep is 4 GB. Consider that for some reason, my Ark: SE is 290 GB, and I've only played it once. Stranded is a light-footprint game.
2- Subsistence is BRUTAL. And made by ONE GUY who updates it 1 or 2x a month with fixes and content. HARDCORE, but very cool. Support a single dev.
3- Don't Starve Together has a myriad of settings now, to make it as hard or easy as you want. And it has a TON of mods. I play a game with 130+ server mods (self-hosted), and about 80-90 client mods. DST can be brutal, or as Falcon said, "for the kids".
No 7 days to die??
Well 7 days to die isn’t hard so it wouldn’t be on this list…
I'm looking forward to playing Middle Ages: Peasants & Knights next year. This will be the most anticipated real medieval survival game.
Vintage Story not only *mentioned*, but in the #1 spot?
Hell yeah. That game needs more recognition (I guess that's what you get when devs refuse to put it on Steam *or* Epic)... I love it to bits.
Ancestors is such a based game, love it, cant wait for the next.
Why is Scum so overlooked?
I love stranded deep. Such a fun game.
And i remember the long dark when it first kinda came out. It was hard af and there were no guides available that i knew of.
Went back to it a couple years ago and it seemed a lot easier to get started.
If you get the basics down in DayZ it gets really easy and it comes down to just being a better shot than the other players
I hate these games - 10 hours of not knowing what to do before I give up🤕
Same honestly
And dying because you didn't take a piss with meters that full up every 30 seconds. I'm with you guys. They suck. Life's a pain in the ass enough without a game doing the same mundane shit as in life.
Yeah, a lot of them tend to be pretty unreasonably unbalanced to inflate the difficulty.
Survival game devs: we are creating the most accurate, realistic survival game to ever exist!
The game: "Boy that 3kg (6.6lbs) of meat sure hit the spot. I'm set for AT LEAST 30 minutes. Now to find 3 gallons of water to wash it down."
Personally, I think the difficulty should be in the complexity and environment instead of the numbers when it comes to survival games.
Try valheim. It's a great survival game that cuts out the most tedious mechanics of the genre. It gets pretty grindy for a few resources, but it's worth it.
Skill issue
I love vintage story. The way it is you have a sense of accomplishment from anything you do. Waiting for the big 1.20 update to launch hopefully by the end of the year so we get bigger boats and animal mounts and some more story elements.
Rust is my personal all time favourite. There are many different servers. Vanilla, modded and many differtent pve servers if you dont like pvp. (Pve servers have soooo many events and things to do. i play both.)
Note: Game looks alot better now. (They used older footage here) And constantly is getting updates.
Ps4 launch footage lol why?
lots of missing information about Rust:
1. the companion mobile App which interacts with your IO circuitry
2. related to point 1 is of course the electricity and other game mechanics
3. you were showing old footages from like 2-3 years lol. the game developers behind this game (facepunch) is freaking awesome and deliver fresh updates every month.
but yeah other than, oxygen not included and project zomboid are also crazy time sinks! really enjoyed these 3 games.
Honestly, SCUM should have been *#1.*
Agreed. I have about 1,000 hours in SCUM, I know a SHIT ton about it and it feels like it took 20% of my brain harddrive
They barely talked about it, there is so much more
I absolutely LOVE shitting out a gun, chugging canola oil, eating a whole bag of flour, then getting popped by a guy in an orange jumpsuit camping in a bush. My favorite survival game, honestly.
Yep, didn't even scratch the surface of all SCUM has. It is the game I played the most, but at the moment I'm just waiting on updates, even make a little fun of it saying after 6k hours it gets a bit boring xD
Agreed. That game will push to you to learning actual survival lol.
Gonna toss Star Trucker into the ring.
The _Dark Souls_ of trucker sims.
I just started playing that yesterday and I am hooked! Love the vibe
@@drgonzo123 You'll have a blast! There's a million tips out there, but I'll just say, the radio is good, but when you get tired of it, throw on a 70s southern rock playlist from Spotify or Alexa or where ever.
And restarting is very common. It takes a couple tries, but they just updated 48 hours ago to lower the difficulty a touch.
Good luck!
I feel like you're not putting on "the voice" as much recently, but I kinda dig it anyway 🤷♂️💯 can definitely still tell it's you, just a bit more subdued I guess and not as extra. Good work, as always!
Harder than life? That's a bit much and you don't even namedrop the title.