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As a scavenger in a future war, loot battlefields, evade rival armies and towering machines, then extract with supplies.
Released 24 Sep 2024
Scavenge Under Mechs
Slip Past Armies
Extract Warzone Loot
The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive beneath gargantuan war machines in a dystopian future of AI automata, cybernetically enhanced soldiers, and endless conflict. Millions of deaths later, the war continues with our latest update!
Developed by Fun Dog Studios · Published by Fun Dog Studios
In a dystopian future consumed by conflict, you play a scavenger surviving between warring military powers, AI forces and enormous war machines. You are not a soldier in either army; you must find a way to stay alive amid their battles.
Deploy into dangerous areas to search for supplies and complete missions, choosing when to hide, move around patrols or fight. Reach extraction with your haul while managing the risk of losing carried gear if a run goes wrong. You can play solo or with a co-op squad.
Collected materials support crafting, weapon and rig customization, and upgrades to your underground base. Character choices, quests and progression provide longer-term goals, while tunnels connect routes between locations and crafted drones can enable fast travel.
Players who enjoy The Forever Winter most often praise its bleak atmosphere, striking art direction and distinctive vision of a vulnerable scavenger moving through a massive war. They also describe memorable battlefield spectacles and find tension and satisfaction in sneaking, looting and escaping; some appreciate having a PvE co-op experience. These positives are often qualified by complaints about enemy AI, bugs, traversal and grind, so the sample reflects sharply divided experiences.
Scavenge and fight for your next day alive under the shadow of gargantuan war machines. Enemies in the game can literally tower over the battlefield. To put it another way:
The battlefield is unpredictable thanks to The Forever Winter’s Dynamic Encounter system: enemies have their own goals and agendas, operating in coordinated groups, undertaking full-scale battles — and they’ll intelligently react to your actions. The battlefield you leave won’t be the same one you return to.
Use your wits, stealth, and skilled gunplay to make it out alive. Choose your path in the shadow of the two great superpowers, loot the dead, and make it out alive. While the warring factions may ignore you at first, the more disruptive you become to their goals, the more they'll seek to remove you from the equation.
Ecological collapse compounded by runaway technological advancement brought us here: a dystopian world choked by 40 years of industrial-scale violence between two military superpowers, AI automata, cybernetically enhanced soldiers, human-machine hybrids, and relentless automated warfare. There's two sides to this war, and you're not on either.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The store page lists Single-player and Online Co-op. Reviews consistently describe the game as PvE-only with no PvP, playable solo or in co-op, with matchmaking, lobbies, quickplay, and host-based sessions. Reviews indicate support for solo, duo, and groups of 3-4 players, but the exact official maximum player count is not explicitly stated in the provided text. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support or mod-related multiplayer behavior is mentioned in the provided text. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 6 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
