Survivalist on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Survivalist is a survival, zombies and rpg game developed by Bob and published by Ginormocorp Holdings Ltd.
Released on January 30th 2015 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian, German, Italian, Turkish and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 2,522 reviews of which 2,016 were positive and 506 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount.


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Windows
  • OS: XP Service Pack 3
  • Processor: Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX10-capable graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 160 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
  • Additional Notes: Uses the XNA Framework HiDef profile, which means it will run on any graphics card that is compatible with DirectX 10 or higher, and some but not all DirectX 9c ones. PLEASE NOTE: having a version of DirectX installed on your PC is not the same thing as having a graphics card that supports it! If in doubt play the demo.

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March 2025
It's better than it seems. A simple but well made survival game where you have to build your base and keep your survivors alive. You get to meet other people which might be recruitable or not, there are other factions, some more friendly than others. Basically build, fight, survive.
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March 2025
I did enjoy my time in this game. Base building and manage your survivors. Collect resources and explore. Best of luck to all survivors.
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Sept. 2024
I tried to get into it several times, and on my final successful attempt finally got to enjoy this game. It's ugly but charming.
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Aug. 2024
This is a good post-apocalyptic zombie survival builder game. You'll meet lots of characters with different personalities, and many of them will have backstories to delve into. Most of them will belong to various good, neutral, or evil factions. There's also an overall story to the game, You are Joe, a fairly wealthy guy, who built a bunker in the desert just in case SHTF during your lifetime. Well, one year ago it did... in the form of a zombie apocalypse. Now your food supplies are running low, so you finally emerge to see what the world is like. Meet new people, and try to recruit them to follow you. Scavenge for new supplies, and build your own little survivor compound. Choose to either try to get along with the other factions you come across, or try to conquer them. Defend you and your group against bandits and raiders. Barter when you can. And for maximum entertainment, blow up buildings. I'm not really a fan of the top-down camera, and waiting for your people to complete tasks, like Isham collecting wood planks to build stuff with, can be very tedious. If you take the diabetic Alice into your group, then constantly needing to find her some insulin can also be a grind. It makes for a good challenge, yes, but it's still a grind. The game also feels like a 90's game to me. Some of the zombies are slow, and some are real speedsters. I don't like the speedsters, as they often come racing into view from nowhere. They cover the distance between them and me so fast that I don't have time to respond, especially if there's more than one of them. Lastly, I find the controls a little clunky. Overall though, this game is definitely worth the 99 cents I paid for it.
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May 2024
Good for its time (I still remember seeing this on the XBLA Indie Game section!) but imo it didn't age well. Controls are frustrating, you often fight with the camera angle, and the story setup doesn't feel right (you get thousands of rounds of ammo and plenty of food, water, and base materials all on day 1). For me the difficulty comes from the bullet sponge zombies and cracked raider AI, or the constant insulin fetch quest that reminds me of the Zombrex you had to repeatedly retrieve over the course of Dead Rising 2. The main appeal seems to be the base building, and how you can control each of your community members and give them different tasks, in contrast to State of Decay where you yourself had to do most of the work/scavenging. I can see how this could be fun as a sort of XBLA colony-sim meets isometric rpg with survival elements, but it just didn't click for me. The price is unbeatable however, and if the prior description sounds interesting to you then you should definitely give this game a shot! Just get ready to be in it for the long haul. Thumbs up since at its core this is a solid game that the dev cares for. It just isn't for me.
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Survivalist
7.7
2,016
506
Online players
3
Developer
Bob
Publisher
Ginormocorp Holdings Ltd
Release 30 Jan 2015
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