Why do we need another survival game? It's all the same concept. Crafting, building, surviving.

for me nether its the best survival mmofps game for the moment, its difficult survive even in a server with no people, you can randomly be attacked for a nether zerg with teleport and die.

IMO the problem with survival games is that the focus has widely shifted away from actually surviving to random shiat like horror elements, fantasy, and building stuff. So far, the only survival game I would recommend is Stranded II.

Also, no offense, but a lot of fresh game devs want to make a survival game. Most of them find out it's way too hard as an opening project. Just be sure you're up to the challenge, best of luck to you guys.

There, gave you an incoherent rattling wall of text to confuse and infuriate you, all the insight I have.

Hope my answers will help your survey. Good luck for your future project!

I have just filled out the survey. Sorry for writing that long wall of text, just wanted to give You few suggestions or something. Thanks for giveaway as well and good luck with the whole project!

holy molly I'm ALL ABOUT survival games, it's my favorite genre! If I see a survival game on steam it's an insta-buy. The best survival experience I had is when I played Skyrim with two mods, namely:

Frosttfall: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/11163/?

Realistic Needs and Diseases: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26228/?

You should check those two mods out, and get some ideas :)

I have never seen a survival focusing mainly on the psychological aspect of a survivor. Make a game with that kind of innovation and I'm sold.

How? Human tend to have mental desires even though the physical needs (hunger, hydration) might not be satisfied. Adding that kind of variables in the algorithm may be hard but it's definitely worthwhile.

Example: you move faster when you're closer to base/ home or you tend to have worse aim when you are approached by a frightening opponent (bigger in size or have a band skulls around his neck.)

Do not make any survival games, there are way too many and you must be damn good to overcome them. Also most kids around here, understand survival as PvP, DM ,Shoot on sight and not the true essence of survival, see DayZ, Rust, Breaking Point for Arma III. Lots and lots of idiots and COD kids. Please stop spreading this plague.
Another expected survival game will be The Forest - http://survivetheforest.com/ Not many people know about it, check it.
My tip if you really start to develop a survival game: Do NOT add guns, rifles, automated weapons, pistols, modern warefare, instead add only melee and this would be interesting

I prefer survival horror!

Yeah, there are tons of survival games out there, but i'm still waiting for the One. None of them is made for me, they get too boring after a time. Maybe you will do a better job, i hope my answers will help, good luck! :)

In some reason i cant complete this survey so i write here:
Most of all existing survivavl games are boring (imo)!
I mean, its interesting to play at the beginning but as for me after a while its getting really boring doing same things again and again without any purpose. Ofcourse there are games with randomly generated quests but they are all same type and recurring sometimes. Thats why i think it would be interesting to add community-generated content (quests, some kind of uniqe loot with limitations probably).
For example (we are talking about MMO, right?): there is such thing in games like rust/dayz - to kill ppl just for fun. And this is really annoying when you are looking for a loot or building some structure for a long time. And then just random player arrearing and killing you in da face with shotgun. Well, this is waste of time and kinda dissapointing to loose all you have, dont you think? Ofcourse i understand that its survival game and in some measure it shoud be that way but this is still a game. So i guess it would be nice to minimize ammount of that situations, im not sure it shoud be removed at all there are still many players that like that type of gamestyle, but at least have to be added some limitations in that cases.
So thats what im thinking about it-to minimize this fact it could be done that things (just my thoughts): to prevent killing just for fun we should motivate killer with something. Some player create uniqe quest that shows up in public and after completing this quest another player who completed it being awarded with some loot that have uniqe parametres (which cannot be found while just looting gameworld). So both sides are winners - one of them recieving something from his quest and another one recieving loot.

Thats main problem for me and sorry for my english its not my native language.

I like game in the orther of Dead Island. Can u imagin it was implemented like DayZ? like openworld etc.. It would be amazing. I just dont like survival's when ur surviving from other players instead from nature

no more zombies!

Survey done, please not an other dayZ-like, my worst buy so far :P. Even games like Inferno or wood cutter are better than this shit.

Done. As I mentioned in the survey, I think that combo of games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and DayZ would be amazing.

TLDR - So I'll post my answers here since I feel the need to point out the need of something different and new and not a copy of DayZ, Rust or any other game that exists already, I don't want to see zombies.. I am so sick of zombies that I just can't express enough how much.

• What is, in your opinion, a survival game?

In a game that focuses on survival, surviving (talking about basic things like eating and drinking) alone should be hard. DayZ is considered a survival game but actually surviving there is easy.. The community is what makes it hard and unpleasant.
You need to have goals, DayZ and Rust and so many other games are merely a different package for PvP and FPS games with small amount of surviving added to it (Think Counter Strike where you need to eat every once in a while).

• Do you experience any problems in gameplay, do you think anything is missing in the currently available survival games?

I think Rust got this a bit better than DayZ, surviving together (I actually never played Rust but seen a lot of Let's Plays and don't plan to get it because it is a lot similar to DayZ).

The thing that Rust got covered better than DayZ is surviving in company. It is stupid trying to Survive alone and DayZ sucks in that way because you can't even talk to someone because you will get shot before you even see them.

I think a survival game should have crafting(Aka Rust) but you should be able to craft only things that actually fit the time.. It doesn't make sense that you can craft factory looking pistols and rifles(Aka Rust) and it doesn't make sense that you can find factory quality guns.

• Looking at the problems above: Do you recognize yourself having one or more of these problems? If yes, which one(s)?

Heh, as I stated in previous questions, both 1 and 2 are clearly the problem of all the survival games. I haven't noticed 3 in any game and have no idea what kind of freedom people are complaining about.

• What would you absolutely want to see in a new survival game?

I think the overly focus on zombies and mutants is extremely stupid. For some reason that isn't clear to me, companies want to go for the same thing because they think they have the product that will overthrow the current "owner" of the 1st spot of the genre(The overflow of same Bejewled games to fight King's Candy Crush Saga, the overflow of Flappy Bird copies after Flappy Bird was released and many more examples).
If you want to make a title that will stand for itself and not try to collect DayZ, Rust etc leftovers then I suggest you make a unique concept game.
Take the movie "The Darkest Hour" and many other alien invasion movies and use it to create an alien survival game. Strong enemies that can't be taken down solo, crafting of actual hand made weapons, crafting a safe house etc..
Heck, add damn seasons to the game. I'd love to see snow covered area, I'd love to make a farm within my house and collect water to have food and all that.. Make actual surviving, not kill a zombie and get Granola Bars, Chocolate Bars or cans of food.

• Looking at the questions above, what would be the order of your problems from highest to lowest priority?

I really don't understand number 3 so I would leave it out but I think 2 is actually of higher importance since most survival games have just turned into Counter Strike with the need to feed. and then number 1.

Edit: If you want an example on how a survival game can be unique, check out FarSky($15 on Steam). About 2-4 hour game that I am playing for 53 hours already and I didn't even make Let's Play for it yet.

Just finished filling out the survey :), I kinda skipped the last question, since I had too many games to explain what I liked about them.

As the giveaway will finish in less than 3 hours, i'm resurrecting this thread one last time for anyone that missed it.
After that it's time to start analysing the results. (Yes, i'll be working on this sunny saturday..)
Massive thanks for all the great response already, and I hope to bring more news as soon as we end researching and start creating the game you, the gaming community, desire. :)