anyone know of some actual GOOD survival sandbox games?
i want to explore and survive against all odds, brave the elements, journey into dangerous dungeons, be forced into combat with horrible monsters, and build up a cool base using resources ive gathered
>not minecraft, its not a survival game. only survival thing it has is a poorly implemented hunger bar
>not dont starve, it is a survival game but theres nothing to do once you have food and stuff to survive the seasons aside from fighting meaningless bosses with shitty combat
>not 7 days to die, i have no friends and that game is balanced around multiplayer. end game for single player is just doing the same few quests over and over
>not terraria, it has nothing to do with survival
>anyone know any survival sandbox games?
>NO, NOT ANY OF THE EXISTING SURVIVAL SANDBOX GAMES!
none of them have what im looking for and always fall short. not my fault they all suck, i want a game thats actually fun
Jesus anon. He only named like 4 games. Perfectly reasonable to say, no not those games. He even included it in the OP. You even forgot a shitty wojak.
Rain world might be what you are looking for. I keep getting filtered cause it is hard.
>Rain world might be what you are looking for.
Meme game
Enlisten to fight in Ukraine.
no man's sky on harder difficulty
valheim too
no mans sky is basically just space minecraft, dont get me wrong i played the fuck out of that game but it got boring after awhile cuz it has the same issues minecraft does with exploration
Holy fuck no. No Man's Sky is probably the worst survival game I've played. You walk for about 30 seconds and you are pissing and shitting yourself because of no oxygen.
that sounds like the experience OP is looking for.I enjoy that more than minecraft where you don't have to worry about food or shelter after 2 days
No Man's Sky is tedious survival. If you want REAL survival, try NEO scavenger. That's a tough game to survive in no matter how geared you are.
all survival is tedious. Why do you think wageslaving is preferable to hunting innawoods?
>got filtered by the tutorial
what the fuck are you talking retards, no mans sky is the most easy shit imaginable, basically craft gels/batteries and you are set for life
How can anyone look at this ugly fucking game for longer than 10 minutes?
>good
>survival
pick one
my advice? go download a mod for BotW that slowly drains your health, thus simulating a hunger mechanic.
>BotW
tendies are mentally ill
So are samefags who repeat the same message. Take this (you) and fuck off.
>TotK
tendies are mentally well
heavily - and i mean heavily - modded new vegas
Have you tried Subnautica? I'm not a fan of survival sandbox but I've only heard good things about that game
Subnautica
The Forest
come home, gayman.
Ugly
trash
boring, ugly trash
I actually enjoyed my time with Conan Exiles. I think they added some pretty big updates too but I haven't played them. Game has customizable booba and dong. The only thing I would've liked was a less janky combat but oh well. If that game controlled like a fromsoftware game I would never stop playing it.
the combat is only janky because of pvp gays and you can mod the old combat animations back no problem, i think it's one of the biggest downloaded mods aside from that sexiles rework.
old combat was even worse than 1.9
at least in 1.9 you have to use some strategy other than just "spam click as fast as u can and tap w a few times lol"
How did pvpers make the combat janky?
bitched and moaned that combat was just spam click dodge dodge, devs decided to rework animations as well as increase stam consumption the heavier your armor/weapon combo.
>Conan Exiles
Playing it now. It's fun and they're still working on it. Seems the devs are actually engaging with the community now and there's an update next month.
>good combat
>dungeons
>can fine-tune a lot of settings for your world
>create a harem of barely-dressed cannibal dark skin women that towers over you
>can climb just about everything
One of my biggest annoyances is the capturing thralls part. Having to use a slow ineffective blunt object to bash an npc until he drops isnt fun, especially when you can kill him and YOU can actually die by getting stunlocked. You can technically get a thrall to bash them which alleviates this slightly
I played it quite a bit when it first came out. I'm pretty sure I still have some kind of "early buyer" bonus items in there or something. I heard they added like a whole other part to the map and magic or something. How good is it?
it's fairly decent but magics still barebonesy, they shifted focus towards the new dune game so it'll take longer.
when you compared to old conan, current conan sexiles is much better.
can I play solo or is it mmo trash
Na, full on solo and you adjust your settings to your wants like I mentioned. You can go co-op or server wide, but finding good servers was difficult two years ago and I never tried again, so no idea how it's going now.
>Sulpah
It's a different map, intended for very experienced players.
>Age of Sorcery
I haven't gotten to that yet, it's pretty new to me. I haven't heard anything negative about it from /vg/, so I don't know.
It's pretty fun
>they're still working on it
I thought they jumped ship to Dune Exiles?
The sad fact is that Minecraft is the best, not because it's a masterpiece, but because all other survival games somehow manage to suck ass.
minecraft sucks ass too tho
>hunger is incredibly barebones, can easily get unlimited food. only meant to serve as a makeshift stamina bar
>no actual survival mechanics aside from the barebones hunger bar
>world is boring and mostly empty, all youl find are dull copy-pasted structures that usually have nothing of interest in them
>no inherent threats, even on hard the mobs are laughably lame
>combat has always been shit, even after 1.9
>only thing to do is either build or fight the worlds most boring and easy bosses
I agree, I never could get into Minecraft myself, and yetevery other Survival game I played seems to take the bad elements from Minecraft and makes them even worse.
Rust and that's about it.
>Castle Miner Z...
>Now that's a name I haven't heard for a long time. A long time.
I'd say Vintage Story, but that game needs more time in the oven.
It's honestly fucked up how you can only really play as those freaks of nature and not normal humans
thats kinda the point
Its even mentioned with the lore he just added to. I believe the merchants says "You weirdly coloured people are popping up all over now".
>I hate unique design and charm
>please give me something generic
I liked this one. It was cozy and autistic. Having to stock up for winter while also building up all that other stuff felt pretty rewarding. I hated Minecraft's hunger and food mechanics but Vintage Story did a good job with them, especially with food storage and spoiling. But the world feels pretty barebones. Doesn't have much to offer in terms of adventure or dungeons.
The most frustrating thing about this game is that instead of combat, enemies, objectives, story, or automation, the devs and community agree that the most desirable content is shit like baking and fruit trees.
Wayward and UnReal World but you need mega autism to enjoy them.
The Long Dark
Checked trips, came to say this fits OPs request.
sandbox and survival are not compatible concepts
I'd argue Rust does sandbox/survival well but only if you git gud at the pvp (which is a lot easier since the recoil update)
Dragon Quest Builders.
Minecraft with a Dragon's Quest storyline
It's pretty comfy, albeit a short game to playthough
Green Hell is the game you want for feeling the true dire nature of survival and how brutal it is, preferably the VR version for best immersion. Second next best game I'd suggest is The Long Dark. These games are very hardcore about this factor of fighting against the odds. Some other off hand suggestions: The Forest, Sons of the Forest, Kenshi, Project Zomboid
If you want the whole go into dungeons thing then I'm going to suggest Outward. You're never going to find a game that is the jack of all trades anon, all of those games suck. Finding a game that does certain areas best is the way to go.
>Green Hell
Legit Kino. The only annoying part is I'm currently stuck in the story because I can't find the plant for the second drug trip anymore
The Long Dark.
minecraft
The greatest hobo simulator ever known. Super modular and the only game I can think of where you can strangle several 8-foot tall dogmen to death, use a broken bottle to take their pelts, then wear said pelts as you strangle more of their brethren while drunk and high on a bunch of prescription pills you found in an apartment building before getting shot by a cultist on the way back to your reclaimed cryo facility base.
I am actively mad no other game scratches the itch because the game's been done for years and no more substantial mods have come out.
Ostranauts is still (very slowly) being developed. I honestly don't care much for the supernatural aspects, though.
Isn't Ostranauts about space travel? Because that's what put me off, I just wanna fuck around in rural Michigan raiding dilapidated apartments.
Yeah. It's the same setting and taking place at the same time as NeoScav, but more like The Expanse
>Long ago, the Allfather Odin united the worlds. He threw down his foes and cast them into the tenth world, then split the boughs that held their prison to the world-tree, and left it to drift unanchored, a place of exile...
>For centuries, this world slumbered uneasily. But it did not die... As glacial ages passed, kingdoms rose and fell out of sight of the Gods.
>When Odin heard his enemies were growing once again in strength, he looked at Midgard and sent his valkyries to scour the battlefields for the greatest of their warriors. Dead to the world, they would be born again... In Valheim!
Boring grindfest with ugly lowpoly graphics, limits itself to a single theme (kinda necessary though), quickly run out of shit to do, bare minimum survival elements
Unfortunately that is the lot with being early access. At least it has a road map that they fairly consistently stick to so it is not a scam.
Surprised i forgot to mention Valheim. But it's also a jack of all trades game which i referred to earlier. It has the bare minimum for the survival elements and it's nowhere as hardcore as both Green Hell and the Long Dark. Very barebones survival mechanics.
Empyrion. You can even start on a planet without oxygen and struggle to create oxygen from water. It has heat, burning, cold, freezing, toxins, bleeding and diseases and you can even break your leg when you fall from too high.
Dwarf Fortress is way too high IQ for me but I recognize that it is extremely dense.
Speaking of ascii autism games. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the OG Project Zomboid in this regard. Worth checking out as well. The newer portal storm mechanic adds sort of mini dungeons to the game. Which are worth exploring late game.
>GOOD survival games
>not terraria
okay motherfucker
Maybe Skyrim with mods
vintage story is the exact game you're asking for, made by people wanting the same things out of minecrap that you claim to want
Might be cool if it didn't look like a cheap minecraft clone.
What kind of survival are we talking about though? Like you have too eat and hunt and survive the weather? The Long Dark. Survive against aggressive creatures and build stuff? Not sure if mentioned Dont starve / dont starve together. Pretty sure that one is a popular survival games
have you formed an opinion yet regarding PVP survival (i.e. Rust, ARK)
these are games you can do on your own, but there's a significantly different experience when other players are involved
>ARK
We don't mention that piece of shit here, newfag
Why not? I played it and put it down before the DLC fuckery happened, but at its core it was pretty solid for an early access open world survival crafting at the time. From what I remember it's also almost mechanically identical to Conan Exiles, which is getting a lot of praise in this thread.
ARK is a better pokemon game than pokemon.
I think about this fact a lot
Pokemon is a shit game and so is ARK. At least the developers of pokemon don't shit on their customers once a year.
The only thing Wildcard’s done this year that could be seen as disrespectful is shutting down official servers as they try and get their shit together for ARK 2.
But the official servers were always ass cancer and anyone who was actually having fun was playing on private servers with mods.
>shutting down official servers as they try and get their shit together for ARK 2
You obviously think that's a good excuse since you felt the need to mention it, but I don't. It doesn't take much to keep servers running, they're obviously only doing it to move people on to the new game which will just be a carbon copy of the original shit game anyway. They're greedy dogs and always have been.
They could honestly just say “we’re shutting down the official servers because they suck” and it would be an acceptable excuse.
Official servers are always crap because devs can never be assed to manage their own servers.
Happens in every game btw, not just ARK.
>>>>>
servers
who gives a fuck
>Oh dude I LOVE sitting here for 45 fucking minutes waiting for this t rex to tame
>the forest (though I think it aged like milk)
>Valheim
>Skyrim, no fast travel, hunger and heat mods.
>Daggerfall with survival mods
>Chernobylite
>STALKER with mods
>State of Decay
Ever wanted a survival game that took place on Arrakis? Well this is the closest we got to that.
neat concept but it is incredibly unfinished. I would give it a few more years before even considering it.
Aren't the guys that made Conan Exiles making a Dune game in the same vein?
Everyone already recommended just about everything I could think of. Outward has the exploration part down perfectly but doesn't have much actual survival besides basic eating/drinking/temperature management. No base building besides campfires and tents. The only other game I can think of is empyrion galactic survival. Basically space engineers but with combat and ai enemies. Pretty jank but it can be fun if you want to build a giant flying mobile base that you can land and drive tanks out of.
Subnautica 1
NOT Vintage Story. Wait like 10 years and then VS will be good
Same can be said of PZ as well.
Project Osiris is to be avoided. It looks like it should be good but it's the definition of a game being unceremoniously dropped unfinished.
The Planet Crafter. EA, but I found it really fun.
I think overall a few games here and there nail some aspects, but in comparison most games with these elements are ultimately pretty lacking at best. We're all still waiting on good ones to be made/finished.
here you go OP, ez pz
Still no multithreading and the strategic/overworld aspect is shit, but hey here's vampires and furries
how do you need multithreading on such a basic ass game, upgrade that pentium son
Late game
>explore and survive
>brave the elements
>explore dungeons
>fight horrible monsters
>build shit
Anon, I have the perfect game for you
>recommending Zelda for someone who wants a survival focused experience
Project Zomboid ticks most of these boxes, but has an extreme difficulty curve
once you master attack distance, PZ is easy as fuck
Space Engineers.
OP clearly wants hardcore survival, spengies doesn't even have a hunger system unless you install the obligatory mods
>spengies
Made me blow air out my nose.
Judging by OPs post he actually wants some casual shit he can play on his own 200,000KM from another player which spengies gives him.
That isn't even a game, it's just a building sim with a fuckload of content locked behind DLC even though the shit isn't even close to finished yet. Anyone that paid money for this game needs to be shot.
>fuckload of content
I'm still seething over Medieval Engineers getting abandoned by the keentards but that's really exaggerating. DLC is shameful but there's very little locked away behind DLC (that can be activated by editing a file in the game folder, look it up). The handful of blocks the DLC do offer are jack shit compared to what modders have done.
>compared to what modders have done
You mean made it from a barebones building program into something slightly resembling a game? It's still not worth buying and the DLC before they even made the game an actual game is why I will never stop shitting on them at any chance I get.
Grounded is fun.
Combat is pretty hard and relies on perfect blocking.
Combat is based primarily around various buffs so you can play a lot of different ways.
Base building is a lot of fun and rewards you for decorating and making things cosy.
It's pretty long for a handmade map based game with lots of little secret or side areas to explore.
A few boss fights. All the optional ones are pretty challenging solo.
Really makes you feel like you come to dominate the yard eventually. But you start off running low a bitch even from basic enemies.
The first time a wolf spider sneaks up on you will make you shit your pants
Terraria
Ark: Survival Evolved has everything you listed in OP
Anyone that supports the ARK devs needs to kill themselves.
I fucking hate haven and hearth and they stopped me from playing it when I was in high school because they forced you to pay for the free game, and I probably would have paid for the game if they didn't kill it. Why would I pay for a game with a population of 0 players (my most memorable moments was interacting with other hermits).
The 3D version never appealed to me because I only liked the game for the 2d aesthetic.
You want The Long Dark. Also maybe The Forest but I haven't played it.
You want Minecraft with Epic Siege Mod.
I never could get into The Forest. Something about being a silent protag with no control over what he is feels empty to me and even more so when my child has been snatched up and I just become a fucking lunatic within 5 minutes by hacking a aboriginals legs off. Also i dislike the inventory system.
Streets of Rogue 2 looks like it's going to be an ambitious game. I'd keep an eye out for that one, it's going to be a bit different from the first one. I'm not sure how hardcore they are going with survival elements or anything, but it's a very open ended sandbox game.
You want to play Yakuza
I'd recommend anyone play Yakuza, but in this case it seems a little irrelevant to the thread topic.
Ishin first playthrough on Ishin difficulty is a survival game
I dunno. DayZ? Scum? Rust? Fucking Tears of the Kingdom?
I got the game for you.
>explore
>survive against all odds
>brave the elements
>journey into dangerous dungeons
>be forced into combat with horrible monsters
>build up a cool base using resources ive gathered
Valheim
ARK
>explore
>survive against all odds
>journey into dangerous dungeons
>be forced into combat with horrible monsters
>build up a cool base using resources ive gathered
Conan Exiles
>explore
>survive against all odds
>journey into dangerous dungeons
>build up a cool base using resources ive gathered
Subnautica
>survive against all odds
>be forced into combat with horrible monsters
>build up a cool base using resources ive gathered
Factorio
Subnautica, Project Zomboid, Grounded, The forest, ARK, and Conan Exiles.
If you’re sick of block game shite they might more to your taste.
Meme shit to avoid unless you like disappointment:
Valheim
That Raft game
Outward
No man’s sky
how's frostpunk?
Short but sweet.
Does what it does well.
It’s a “survival city builder”.
Which means a city builder with resource scarcity and the weather comes around to vibe-check you.
Unironically Tokyo Jungle.
what's a game where I survive against all odds and the endgame I have a shitton of guns and just mow everything down
Let It Die.
>GOOD survival sandbox
oxymoron. Such a thing cannot exist. Get better taste, zoomer retard. It's not our fault you only ever played 2 games in your life.
Grounded. Great single player story but allow up to three other players to join you which increase the dialog between characters. So it support multiplayer which is a lot more fun but can be fun as a solo player with true progression and goals. Story is that you got shrunk in someone's backyard and you need to find out how and why then fix it.
Backyard is fucking massive and ton of stuff is hidden away that you can't really be aware of just by looking at the surface level.
>Great single player story
I walked away thinking it was a mid-tier survival game with a minimal tacked on story, because I played it when getting inside the tree was the end of the story content and haven't touched it since. That's the trouble with early access games. The setting was pretty novel and the grafix were great though.
The story is actually done now and it a ton of fun and recently they added more QoL and few extra things to do. The ability to dupe one-of-a-kind items by using raw science so your friends can also use the stuff if they wanted and mutation loadouts are my personal favorites with the latest update. Highly suggest giving it another go if you are up for it.
Rimworld
Vintage Story has a large learning curve and it can be tedious at times but it's good