What features in survival games do you really love, and which do you really hate?
Is there a meta you really get annoyed by that every game seems to copy? What is something unique or cool in a game that really added something great?
I’ll start. For me, the most annoying thing is the grindyness at times. First it’s mine 2, then 10, then 30, then 50. It seems the only way survival games can make things harder at times is to increase resource cost.
Gotta be real, the grind for sure. If the basic survival mechanics begin to feel like a grind rather than adding to the atmosphere, I feel like you’ve kinda fumbled your survival game design.
It’s the difference between gathering food feeling meaningful in Don’t Starve vs. feeling like it’s tacked on in Minecraft survival mode, or even further, in No Man’s Sky’s survival-lite normal mode settings.