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How to Survive

Role-playing (RPG)TacticalAdventureArcade

Space needed: About 2.3 GB

Overview

How to Survive is a video game developed by French studio Eko Software and published by 505 Games. It was released in 2013 for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and PlayStation 3; in June 2014 for Wii U's Nintendo eShop; and in 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition.

How to Survive is played from a top-down perspective. There are two game modes, story and challenge, and both can be played with up to two players. Challenge mode puts the player(s) on one side of the island, and they must get to the other side, where their getaway vehicle awaits. The player's mission is to gather materials, craft weapons, and make it off the island without dying. Neither challenge or story are timed, and therefore, the player can take as long as they want.

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.

How to Survive and its Storm Warning Edition received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms, though the latter title was a bit better received than the former, as reported by the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the Xbox 360 version was ported for release on October 23, 2013, followed by the PlayStation 3 version, which was published by Spike Chunsoft under the name How to Survive: Zombie Island on March 4, 2014; and the PlayStation 4 version (also published by Spkie Chunsoft under the name How to Survive: Zombie Island, Storm Warning Edition) on April 8, 2015, Famitsu gave the latter console version a score of 31 out of 40.