Survive or Die Reviews

I like the concept. I was excited to start surviving. I ran around gathering things the first time, not wanting to run out of the prison until I took all I could, I got outside started running and then died when guards showed up everywhere - no reasoning to it, they are just suddenly everywhere. Naturally, them with guns and me with a knife, I died. So second start, I decided to just run out of the prison to try to get away from them so I could start survival game. Same thing, does not matter what you do. You can continue to just run from guards and still will die of thirst and gunshot wounds. There is no path to escape the guards, no advantage to run from them - and running is as slow as a light jog, but you lose stamina as fast as if you were sprinting. If there is a goal, or path, or guidance that to escape I have to kill them all, then that is not clear and certainly not any fun. The game is a waste of money when there are many others out there that are much more fun as far as survival goes.

its a good game but too many bugs in my first run through the game loaded up gray screen. my second run through i built a second floor and then it glitched it out like i didnt even build it, besides those towo bugs so far everything seems great about it until i find more bugs. will update

The game looks pretty ood in the graphics department but i had no idea what was goin on outside of that. Bustin out of prison was simple enough. I didn't liek how we dont get to keep what we pick up durin' that segment. I also think the game could use voice overs. There is an intro story that could use it. I mean its not that many lines to voice over. When we get outside there is a map to explore but I had no idea what was goin on. We can't even interact with the map. All I did was die lol. There is potential here so I'll give it a middle thumb up. Gameplay impressions:

I really tried to like this game. I went way-out of my way to use my imagination, and my-own story to make the game play work. Game begins. You start as an escaped prisoner with a group of inmates that have, over-taken the guards, and everyone is running for them selves to flee and not get recaptured. As exciting of a start as this is.. It doesn't matter, because you can skip this drama-video seen, and if you wanted to play through it, you still can't keep anything you get, because its just an intro movie or idea for you to understand the game. Just get outside to find freedom as fast as you can. Now look at your mini map and everything in red is trying to kill you, like guards, and bears. All the tiny white objects, they represent "things" in the world you need. Like water is the shape of a bottle, scrap metal has a special shape, food a shape, etc. Ok so now your outside prison, and need to survive. If you press M a larger Map shows up but only shows little to nothing as far as information. Maybe where things and people are, but You will see three (?) on map, and these are supposed to help you do something. I tried to play along.. with the concept. Ok.. I need to go to these three (?) locations and see whats going on. I went to all three and that's it. This is when My computer started locking down, restarting would not get blue screen to go away. I restarted a new game, and was like nooo. Not again. If you go into this game thinking this is a real life "live or die" by surviving .. this game is fun and makes you think, how do I navigate around the animals and military that want to hurt me, while collecting, food, and water bottles. Then only certain trees give you logs or twigs at all, only two bushes for berries. and for the life of me I could never figure out how to make bandages, or heal my health for the life of me. I saved non stop because you almost have to. you will either die by some surprising monster, or surprise no water or health, a stray bullet. THis is when I thought, I'll play more stealthy, but that go boaring when I found out 80 of the people who want to kill you, will leave you alone if you stay on your knees and don't get up and run.??? Great I guess. I would kill them with my pointy stick and feel all happy about a quick kill I did on an NPC, and then discover.. not one of those NPCs carries anything for me?? so kill them if you want to make walking pathes easier, but you don't get rewards, exp points, or anything but lost bullets, or sharp stick degrading. So Like I was saying I went to all three (?) on the bigger map, and got a riffle gun and scope that fits a gun yet seen. Nice thunderstorms, and weather changes and exploring was fun. But the bugs and unfinished gameplay are unreal. 1.No healing yet? wow. Rocks and stones are so far away, and trees are only found in a few areas. Treasure hunting the metal on the mini map was fun, and trying to outsmart the guards and bears as took the scrap metal back to my base. So what is the last ingredient needed for the workbench, I got the logs, and metal, but then went looking for feathers, and even though feathers looks a little like what i needed, I never foud that last ingredent to make the workbench. If the guns wore trustworthy, then collecting guns, and prisoners outside to form an NPC army togo back inside the prison to over take the wardon, and get a helocoptar to take all the prisoners back home was the story,.. then that is one aswsome game. BUT even using my imagination, so many things just didn't work. Nothing was in the houses, except the few creates and nothing really special to help the game play, More empty than anything. I'm guessing my version of your game isn't what you intended, but I dont' see how you are going that story, so players feel like they need a strong purpose to keep "fighting for something, or something big to breakthrough to over throw the bad guards. You have some big problems with Machanics, Concepts, Ideas, Goals, and Game-play and Bugs, However if you listen to your player base feed back you can make this game one to be remembered. THank you for reading this far. Its a lot to take in.