How to Survive

After a shipwreck, you play a castaway trying to survive and escape an archipelago overrun by zombies and other threats. The campaign takes you across four islands, where you follow objectives and collect chapters from a survival guide.

Explore for food, water, shelter, and crafting materials while managing hunger, thirst, and rest. Fight zombies and dangerous creatures, and prepare for more hazardous nights as the day-night cycle changes the risks of exploring.

Combine scavenged parts and materials to make more than 100 weapons and tools, including firearms, traps, and explosives. Choose one of three characters with different characteristics and skill trees; play the story with a friend offline or tackle online challenges together.

Players who enjoy the game often highlight its hands-on weapon crafting, resource-gathering survival loop, and the fun of exploring the islands, especially with a friend. Several also appreciate the survival guide's humorous presentation and the sense of building up a character and equipment. Other reviews find the missions or gameplay repetitive, and some mention clunky controls or technical problems.