Survival: Fountain of Youth

Time. That is what all these "hyper-realistic" survival games dont understand. Spend 20 minutes hunting, go hungry again in 30 minutes. Spend 10 minutes gathering kilograms of wood for a fire, it goes out in like 5 minutes. The effort to payoff ratio is all messed up.

It's like they designed every single aspect of this game to be as tedious and frustrating as possible. It's just not worth the headache.

Still not finished the game, but 60h into it and enjoying the game a lot. As a big fan of Valheim and Icarus this FoY has high focus on the survial part with nice story to back it up. Makes you actually plan the day and set goals for moving forward - planning is important. Food, water, medicine, sleep all has importance and you have to spend a lot of time collecting resources and slowly building a home base to grow. With 60% off on summer sale I would absolutly reccomend this game if you like survival games with story.

I enjoy the first person survival genre and have played almost all games of this type on the market. So when this game came up on sale, i came in very skeptical. FPS Survival is a very crowded space, what could this game possibly come up with? After playing for 20 hours? quite a bit actually. It's rather fun and here's why. Good survival mechanics: I saw many reviews comparing this to green hell or the forest or the long dark, etc. I see the point, but would disagree. the game fundamentally is a lot more chill and relaxed. yes, there is pressure to survive and literally everything outside your base is trying to kill you, but many game mechanics help you solve survival issues through technology. in this regard, S:FoY is the most like atlas, and like ark without dinosaurs or sengoku dynasty without townsfolk. Great, so why not play those other games? Well Paced: This game unlocks technologies very naturally with a smooth difficulty curve. I dare say that it may even be slightly too generous (though i've only played on normal). you can easily die in this game if you're not prepared, but i like how the game emphasizes being prepared - you need to spend time and effort building up resources and technology to unlock areas with new content. however, unlike ark or pal world, i felt each stage was just slightly out of reach and didn't require endless hours of grinding to achieve. Decent story: finally, i think the story in this game was done well. it's not overpowering causing the gameplay to be linear. yet at the same time, it was interesting enough for me to go out of my way to try and figure out the story. sure the devs decided to sacrifice some plausibility in the plot to accommodate the game fun, but i think it was a good move. all in all, i'm 20 hours into this game and still thoroughly enjoying it. i think there's enough content in a novel enough combination that old veterans in this genre would enjoy it. if you're new to fps survival, i think this game will challenge you and stretch you to plan, to strategize you moves to maximize your chances of survival. if you really do enjoy this type of gameplay, i'd suggest you move onto atlas if you enjoy more the combat elements, or green hell / long dark if you enjoy surviving against the elements

AS a 61 year old gamer that has played many survival games I can tell you honestly this is the best I have played! This game has it all that I have wanted and more. Great story line, fantastic graphics, non linear play, and many challenges to make you think. I especially like that it gives you plenty of time to explore, craft and hunt and not a constant grind. After a day of adventuring I like to enjoy the scenery, sit by the fire and plan my next steps and this game lets you do that. There are plenty of creatures to fight off and skills to learn and puzzles to solve. This is what I feel being stranded on an uncharted island would be like in real life with enough mystery and challenges to test your survival skills. I give it a 10 out of 10!

I love this game. For me, it hits the right balance of survival aspects, exploration, building, and crafting. The mapping system and the passage of time during crafting / gathering activities in particular tickle my brain and give a sense of "it's just me against the world". The voice acting is hammy and over-the-top, but I quickly found it to be part of the charm of this occasionally quirky game. And while I'm still not completely sold on the "blocking hit" system, I've learned to use it where I can and otherwise work around it. After beating the story quests, I started a 2nd play-through on a harder difficulty on another save slot. And I find myself wondering how a sandbox mode with procedurally generated islands would work and if that would be fun. All in all, while not perfect, this is one of my new favorite survival games of all time.

Pretty chill and relaxing survival game 36 hours in. Building mechanics are nice. Critters are annoying at first.

Fantastic game! very captivating and has great mechanics!!

I'm playing on easiest mode because I don't like combat, and that setting is perfect for me in that context: the animal combat is somewhat challenging, but not deadly. However, the thirst and hunger is a little TOO easy to overcome on this setting, all my food is spoiling cause I just don't need that much of it.

Excellent addition to the survival genre. Go at your own pace and the story is interesting.

After playing the game for several hours and better understanding it, I can clearly say this game has potential to be the best survival game on market. My biggest complaint currently is no multi player option. Here is a summary though of what to expect out of the box currently: The game is very hard in the start. I've played a lot of survival games and most are easy after 5 mins. This game was a lot harder out of the gate. Once you get established, the game is very in depth story. I really enjoyed the historic parts of the game and story. Although it has fictional parts of the story, its very well done. Game progression as well is fairly hard starting out but good pace as you move along. I'm currently on the last island and working toward finishing the game. The best thing about this game is the ships. A lot of survival games lack ship options and progression. This game delivers good options. I also enjoy the progressive crafting system.

It's a good game but you have to give it a chance. The underwater parts (reefs, rocks etc.) need some more love.

A very good adventure game with a nice learning curve that'll have you struggling to survive initially, then thriving once you get a nice base setup with all the various tools. Hint: [spoiler] Start with the Axe & leather bag. [/spoiler]

One of the best island-survival games out there ! The amount of details in the game is stunning, the ambiance is beautiful, the combat is challanging from time to time and the storyline, even though not perfect, is intriguing. Would give it a 8/10 easily. There are only 2 problems with the game in it's current state, which I hope the developers may resolve soon: the fps drops ( the game seems to be poorly optimized especially if you are in a jungle ) and the water mechanics. The waves, water graphics don't seem to be adding to the overall ambiance of the game. However I would recommend the game to anyone, excited to see new content in the game soon

Fun shipwreck survival game! Much better than Stranded Deep or Raft.

This is a really fantastic game, it's among my favorite survival crafting games. There are tons of things to build and upgrade. The game play loop is satisfying. It can be rough to start out, you need food and water, however there are plenty of locations to gather food until you get some basic hunting gear. I did jump ahead to the next island before upgrading my raft and it was challenging, so I loaded a previous save on the first island and fully explored it, unlocking more equipment, and I'm preparing for my journey to the second location. The graphics are pretty good, the sounds are great, I just really like the atmosphere. From what I've seen so far, the devs have created a believable world to explore. It feels like people actually lived there, which I don't always get from other games. There is some jank, like when animals attack, but I think it adds a certain charm and it doesn't hinder the experience at all. I was quite skeptical about this game, the title sounds pretty generic, but I'm really glad I gave it a chance!

My kind of game. I like it very much. Build, story, progression, survival, all is interesting and not boring.

Great game overall, some jankness to it but nothing that ruins the game, plus its pretty funny to see the panthers bend at 45 degree angles and lizards soar like superman. Lots of fun to play not too long, scratches that PVE itch. The game overall looks good the textures are not bad, the building is ok I wish it was a little better but It works. All in all a good game to play, if you get it on sale even better for you. OVERALL 8/10 would play again. GG dev team.

if you play the long dark you will be familiar with this game as they are very similar in the mechanics , you can say this is a summer version of long dark ! yes i recommended this game specially to play it on summer time :-)

Very nice survival game, easier than green hell, but same style, kind of.. Still i really enjoyed. highly recommend.

Still needs to cook some more. Movement and combat are pretty barebones and slow.

I like the game i just dont like that you loose your stuff if you die. That is the one thing so far.

Disappointing. Controls are wonky and actions are this odd fast forward style. The time lapse was a unique idea but when implemented, it feels cheap and destroys immersion.

Great survival , base building, open world game.

solo exploration and puzzles to solve.

Doesn't run. It's too bad, I remember liking the demo.

Very good cozy survival that are realistic with time usage

So good its a crime more people don't know about it.

16JUL25 I JUST DON'T GET HOW THIS GAME IS GETTING CLOSE TO "VERY POSITIVE" NEEDS MORE THAN REWORK ON TECH TIERS, SKILL TIERS, TOOLS, BUILDING, RESOURCES, MAP BALANCING - IT IS SOOO MUCH WORK MY NECK HURTS. WHERE DO I START!! ---SORRY, TAKEN A BREAK, WILL UPDATE NEXT 2 DAYS THIS GAME IS WORSE THAN GREEN HELL AND FINALLY WHY OH WHY DO WE HAVE TO EAT 12 TIMES A DAY (FYI THE BODY USING VERY LITTLE CALORIES WHEN WE SLEEP 15-20%, WHAT IS YER DEAL!!) 13JUL25 really "very positive"- thats weird how is it there are rocks every where - you just can't use them - one word... grindy grindy grindy! is that too much for ya, so will this game be! just cause ya do it over and over does not make it fun!! stamina lasts 10 seconds - but wait, you don't just slow down, you stop!! who is this guy, the cook who ate everything on the ship, now he can't even walk 20 feet with out resting - i ve played one hour and i am already tired!!

Great game!

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