A realistic survival journey through challenging environments using simple real-world techniques. Manage calories, exhaustion, and nature’s dangers as you adapt and push forward. Stay alert as nature responds to your actions, ensuring no two attempts ever play the same.

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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 is a true survival simulation where you rely on knowledge, awareness, and simple real-world techniques across different biomes - your area(z). 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.

To survive, you must search every part of each area, focusing on natural resources and reading the environment carefully. Tides shift, animals follow scents, predators react to movement, and weather can turn a routine moment into danger. Calories, exhaustion, wetness, time of day, and weather all influence your chances, creating both opportunities and threats.

Crafting uses a deliberate two-hand system where stones, sticks, bamboo, and fire behave according to natural logic. AREAZ is harsh but fair—mistakes and poor resource management lead quickly to hunger or death. Only bold players who adapt and learn from nature will break through the barriers ahead and reach the next zone.

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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