Survive or Thrive

Survive or Thrive approaches the idea of survival from a completely different direction than most games carrying the label. Instead of placing the player in an open wilderness filled with resources to collect and shelters to construct, it turns survival into a psychological exercise built around questions, choices, and hypothetical situations. Developed and published by Randumb Studios, the game is essentially an interactive survival personality test that tries to determine not only whether you could stay alive under extraordinary circumstances, but what kind of disaster or hostile environment might actually suit your particular instincts. The experience is primarily driven by reading and decision-making. Players work through a collection of questions intended to examine their personality, priorities, judgment, and reactions to danger. The game then uses those answers to connect the player with different survival scenarios. This structure makes it closer to interactive fiction or a personality quiz than a traditional survival simulator. There is no extensive crafting system, resource economy, base construction, exploration, or combat. Your answers are effectively the central gamep…

Secret word: Crime I like how instead of just saying you are good or bad at surviving, it tells you which scenario you would have the highest chance of surviving. Like all the other games it's a fun test.

My secret word was crime, and the scenario I got was surviving the Purge and Steve believes my survival chances are extremely high. I'm not the best with technology or mechanical things, but I've done some reading on herbs and plants to safely eat and seen a few reality tv wilderness shows to have a basic grasp. As always I enjoy Randumb Studio games and I'm excited to play more when I get the chance!

This was bought for me by someone else and I did not enjoy this game. I'm sure people who like this sort of thing would have a blast with it! But it's just not my type of game I don't find it fun nor engaging. I don't remember my result at the end because I played it so long ago.

The word I got is: Seagull

A simple thing, to ask questions. Yet I am always taken aback by the meaning and endings. My word was Asylum.