There's a new survival crafting game with a twist that instantly has my attention: it's also a straight-up horror game where you're tasked with surviving the elements and the relentless stalking of a Wendigo.
, as it's aptly called, was just announced from Brazil-based solo developer Dylan Maffeis of Mounpeak Games. Maffeis tells me in an email exchange that the game is still very early in development, but that it takes i🦹nspiration from open-world survival game The Long Dark and investigation/survival hybrid Kona. Mounpeak's debut title, He♎at or Die is a "short but intense" game in which you're lost in the middle of the forest during a snowy winter, and just as luck would have it, your only living company is a starving Wendigo.
If you haven't heard the urban legends, tracing back to Algꦗonquian folklore, the Wendigo is a malevolent spirit taking on various, mostly bipedal forms, but with long limbs, sharp claws and teeth, and its signature feature, horns. In folkloric tales, they often possess humans and curse them with a hunger so insatiable that they murder and eat other humans. 🌠So yeah, pretty messed up.
However, that's exactly what draws me to Heat or Die and has the potential to pull me away from games like Palworld and Enshrouded. Not only am I fascinated with these kinds of urban legends, but also the idea of taking the stress and anxiety of an open-world survival game and amplifying it w🐎ith the presence of a terrifying monster biologically inclined toward killing and eating you. Are you even a horror fan if you don't have slightly masochistic tendencie🔜s?
Anywho, the Steam page for H🉐eat or Die is pretty barebones right now, with only a handful of screenshots of its early development and not a trailer or even teaser to speak of. The description says yo🌞u'll explore an open-world in search of precious resources to overcome challenges - presumably hunger, coldness, sleep deprivation, and the like - and there's a heavy focus on resource management aspect that requires you to make "strategic choices" about what ingredients you expend on various crafting recipes.
It sounds like your three biggest challenges will be navi𝕴gating the densely forested open world, maintaining and staying close enough to your campfire so🌸 you don't freeze to death, and sneaking around quietly enough to avoid becoming Wendigo poop.
It's entirely too soon to know whether Heat or Die will earn itself a spot amongst the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival games, but in an extremely crowded category filled with some of the biggest and most viral g𒁏ames of the moment, it's encouraging to me that it's doing something new and unique. I'm told a trailer is on the way "soon," so we s🌳hould have a clearer picture of what's in the works at Mounpeak Games shortly.
After 💧earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional exec♚utive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.
