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…
How to Survive is an adventure developed by EKO Software, released 23 October 2013 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What How to Survive is
How to Survive is an adventure game developed by EKO Software and released in 2013. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
How to Survive holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Players rate it 77, 10 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo or better, 4 GB RAM and Ati 5700 series/NVIDIA GeForce GT240 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB.
What it launched against
How to Survive launched on 23 October 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Stanley Parable. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for How to Survive yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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