Survival cast away style game based on real survival experience and techniques. Adapt to various area(z), fight the exhaustion, manage your food income and energy consumption. Push your survival skills to the limits and conquer final barriers to reach your extraction point.
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Mixed (73) - 61% of the 73 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Oct 23, 2019
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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Early Access allows us to get feedback from players community and develop the product according to best industry standards and user experience. This information based on existing player experience in game during Early access is crucial, as it provides us important feedback, how players react to various survival situations, manage they resources, what type of survival they prefer - such as hunt, fishing, gathering. How they response to various threats, environment impact and supply shortage.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect the game to be in Early Access for two-three years. Please see our Status Reports in Community Hub for more updates.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Full release will include all main survival mechanics, finalized quality of graphics and sound. Will include also the mainland map area. All texts will be available in English, Spanish, French, German and Czech languages.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“We are preparing the launch of Early Access of the game. Map already contains following areas: coastal, beach, jungle, bamboo forest, meadow, swamp and secret area.
Player character can do all basic movement such as walk, sprint, jump, crouch, swim, several melee attacks. It can drink, eat, interact with loot, harvest resources, fish and craft items needed for survival. It can set up a improvised shelter.
We do have several animals types already present in game acting as prey (food) and as predators.
The basic environment is set up including full day/night cycle, functional ocean tide and sea currents.
Please see our Status Reports on Steam Community Hub for more detailed information.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price of game after final release will be increased as we want to reward players who will participate on Early Access for they feedback and support.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We have strong experience, that community is one of the most important parts of development of specially survival games. We will respond and communicate with community on regular basis and are already active on different social media.
The feedback from community is important for us, as it gives as required information how the game is played and what are player base preferences.”
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About This Game

AreaZ game is a true survival simulation, where players have to rely on their knowledge and survival skills in different bioms or so called area(z). Starting with first showcase based on beach and jungle area(z) until player conquers the deadly swamp. Future game will include Rural mainland, Forrest up to rocky and snow covered Mountains.

In order to survive, player should search closely each part of the map and each area to find and focus mainly on natural resources. Player can use a really robust crafting system to craft needed items. The nature and environment itself is made hard and will not allow player to make many mistakes. Bad decisions and resources management will lead to character starving or even death. The AreaZ game includes advanced game mechanics of natural environment, crafting, and survival and such enabling complex simulation for bold players.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

As survival simulator - game will include some parts that can be considered rarely as disturbing such as hunting, fishing, skinning the animals to obtain pelt and meat.
Game will also include some mechanics similar to poisoning from some fruits or spoiled food as well from poisonous or venomous animals.
Game includes fight with animal predators such as crocodiles, sharks, bears.
As survivor game it might include some barely dressed or naked characters, but not sexual scenes.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10/11
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 / i3-9100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 / FX-8350 /
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti / GTX 960 /AMD RX 470 4GB
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 19 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10/11
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-11400F / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
    • Memory: 32 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 / AMD RX 5700XT
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 19 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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