About This Game

Knowledge is the only progression

AREAZ is a true survival simulation where you rely on knowledge, awareness, and simple real-world techniques across different biomes - your areaz. Everything you learn, you learn by doing, the way it works in the real world. The journey begins on the beach and in the jungle before leading toward the deadly mangrove swamp. Future updates expand the world with rural mainland zones, deep forests, and finally the cold, rocky mountain regions.

Everything is connected

To survive, you must search every part of each area and read the environment carefully. The tide runs on its own schedule - the camp that stood safe at noon can be underwater by midnight. Animals follow scents, predators react to movement - the meat that feeds you is also the bait that calls them in. Rain kills the fire you are trying to start, and fills the catcher that keeps you off bad water. Calories, exhaustion, wetness, time of day, and weather all shape what is possible - the right hour opens an opportunity, the wrong one turns deadly.

Craft with both hands

Crafting uses a deliberate two-hand system where stones, sticks, bamboo, and fire behave according to natural logic. Tools wear out and break. The best gear is found, not made - and what the land gives once, it may not give again. New: Autocraft, for simpler crafting when you want it.

Harsh but fair

Mistakes and poor resource management lead quickly to hunger or death, and some mistakes cannot be undone. AREAZ rewards players who think like survivors: check the time, read the waterline, count your calories before you spend them. The free demo is the entire first area - no locks, no timers. Judge the game by playing it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AREAZ was built before generative AI. Its code, art, sound and animation are my own work as a solo developer, or licensed from third-party creators.

AI is now used for three things:

Translation: existing community translations are updated and new languages added with AI assistance. Players told me they would rather have a machine translation than none.
Interface icons: newer menu icons are created with AI assistance.
Programming: AI tools help modernize the game's code from original BP to C++

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.