The Survivalists

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

The Survivalists is a crafting, survival and online co-op game developed and published by Team17.
Released on October 09th 2020 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Arabic and Dutch.

It has received 8,787 reviews of which 6,754 were positive and 2,033 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Survivalists into these genres:

Crafting Survival Online Co-Op Adventure Multiplayer Singleplayer Open World Survival Craft Base-Building Open World Sandbox Pixel Graphics Co-op Exploration 2D Casual Character Customization Hunting Action Top-Down Procedural Generation

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 | AMD Phenom II X2 550
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 Graphics Adapter with 1 GB VRAM

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

I don't think the game is being updated anymore which is a shame. There are some QoL things that could be included to make e.g. base maintenance more enjoyable. Particularly auto-sort to chest from inventory as well as sort by item type within chests. The game is pretty grindy but once you unlock teleporters it's a little less annoying to access the resources you need. The best aspects of the game are the visuals and the various crafting trees. Progression feels nice. Teaching monkeys to work for you is an okay gimmick. Though you end up standing around supervising them anyway so being able to 1) craft from chests and 2) level up your own crafting ability would save a lot of time honestly. The final island mostly just has recolours of earlier enemies I think, or they look very similar anyway. I haven't done any labyrinths yet. There's plenty to do and decent variety to the gameplay loop.

Oct. 2024

Seriously nice game with an immensely gratifying inventory management system and potential, but an aggravating mouse & keyboard experience. The inventory management system is incredible for a digital hoarder like me. I absolutely love it. The system for gradually streamlining crafting & production goes nicely hand in hand with it. Unless you play with a mouse and a keyboard. The concept that should work flawlessly _especially_ on keyb & mouse, but it currently does the opposite. Crafting is a pain without using the streamlining game mechanic, which itself is very janky on a kb&m. I mean that the lengths at which even kb controls are designed for console controllers cause endless misclicks. It happens in all kinds of situations, making you start processes all over again, when they're supposed to be automated. All the while the game displays speech bubbles like "This is so boring! I should [use the automating game mechanic]", which at this point feels like it's jeering at my struggles to use that exact mechanic. Another problem is assigning mouse and keyboard keys. It seems the game is hard-coded with several different "limits" to control settings. (Like it "groups" some invisible controls.) This would otherwise not be a problem, but for example, I literally cannot assign the action "use item" to clicking my right mouse button. Why? I have no idea. I've checked 5 times, and RMB or right mouse button isn't used to do anything else either. I've never tried to modify the game files in any way, this is all base game behavior. It's probably a bug left undetected due to minimal or virtually no game testing done on a kb&m as of the date. The game is clearly designed for console controller users. This really wouldn't be a problem, if it had been apparent before purchase, or if the game worked fine with a mouse & keyboard by now. The immense potential of the game gets largely buried under the janky control scheme. But it's not enough trouble to make me turn my back to it, at least not for a while. I'm on a personal mission to sort through as much of the problems I can by using macros. But some things are simply impossible. Even if you use a different key for literally every type of action you can. For example, sometimes the monkeys come very close to you while you're carrying an object. I mean, their whole point is to follow you, so of course. But in that case, you just cannot put the object down, even if you're facing away from the monkey and trying to place it on unobstructed ground. Even if you press a button that isn't configured to do anything else, other than to put things down on the ground. That's because a console controller doesn't have enough buttons to specify between monkey interactions and putting objects down, and the game doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that a kb&m have more than enough. But the game is cheap and the studio's The Escapists game is also primarily for consoles. It's not something I'm upset about, it's simply a problem that I thought wouldn't be overlooked when a game is sold on Steam for PCs.

Aug. 2024

I love playing this game with my son, it connects us and it's fun. It's nice considering he's 13 now, but this is one of the ways we hang out :) forever thankful!

Aug. 2024

I really enjoy the crafting progression, art style, and gameplay. I love wandering around the island with my army of monkeys. But The Survivalists falls short in the multiplayer aspect, which is the only way I played it (with a friend) and which is the reason I got it. Multiplayer doesn't allow the non-host to progress major recipes (the first bomb recipe) or recipes bought from the sellers (hot air balloon guy). Which means if my friend was hosting, only he'd be able to build bombs to unlock caves even though he played as the homebody, setting up based and fortifications, and I went out exploring. I'd unlock new recipes that I couldn't even use unless I went back to my own game and repeated every single mission up until that point. Why not just let us both progress in a single game?

May 2024

Fun game with a lot of satisfying crafting mechanics. It has some rough edges on how much can everything be automatized, but game is short enough that it is not becoming a burden. Big downside - a lot of technical issues (corrupted save, crashes), but it seemed to be only on my PC some kind incompatibility. Majority of other players have not encountered them.

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