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How to Survive

EKO Software

How to Survive

You are shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive? Collect the pages of a Survival Guide and figure it out, of course! Find food, water, and shelter before you perish. Uh oh, is it getting dark? Figure out how to get through the night! While you’re at it, gather up some of this awesome stuff and piece together over 100 handmade weapons and tools—from shotguns to Molotov cocktails. Now you can defend yourself and your friends like a boss… but can you escape?

Released
23 October 2013
Developer
EKO Software
Publisher
505 Games
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric · Third person
Age rating
PEGI 18 · ESRB M
Controller
Full controller support
Metacritic
60/100
Steam recommendations
13,987
Platforms
PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Wii U · Xbox 360
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) · Tactical · Adventure · Arcade
Also known as
How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition
Estimated owners
1,000,000–2,000,000 (est.)
77
Player rating
87
Critic rating
58
Ratings counted
82.7%
Steam reviews
43
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The story

Players play as one of three survivors - the all rounded Kenji, the fast, arczar Abbie or the brawling Jack - shipwrecked on one of four zombie-infested islands that form an archipelago. After finding food for another wounded survivor, Andrew (who has already suffered a zombie bite), the survivor meets a one-legged old man named Ramon who owns a boat that can be used to travel between the islands. Together, they hatch a plan to escape the archipelago using a beached seaplane, with Andrew as the pilot. Ramon sends the survivor to fetch materials to repair the plane. The survivor soon meets Kovac, a mysterious man in full armor who has made the islands his personal hunting ground. A self-proclaimed master survivor, Kovac is using his extensive field experience to write a zombie survival guide ('Kovac's Rules'), and gladly assumes a mentor role, helping the survivor with valuable advice and tools throughout the course of the game.

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Reviews and languages

82.7% of 17,094 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Very Positive”.

8 languages in the interface, 1 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.

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Players can shoot or chop zombies into pieces, burn them and/ or make them explode.

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Platform releases

PC (Microsoft Windows)
23 October 2013
Wii U
5 June 2014
PlayStation 3
19 June 2014
Xbox 360
19 June 2014

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