[Recommended DL game] "THE SURVIVALISTS" is a game that lives with monkeys.

　"Recommended DL game" series that introduces good work and good work from download games.This time, we will introduce "The Survivalists" which is being distributed on PS4/Switch/Xbox One/PC (Steam).

Survival of only one person aiming to escape a mysterious island

　This is an action game that aims to escape while living a survival.

　The protagonist who rides on a squid and suffers alone, and reached an unknown island.There are only small materials such as pebbles and grasses nearby.

　However, this protagonist seems to have skills suitable for survival.

　You can create a stone ax from a pebble, cut a tree with an ax in your hand or mined a stone to get a new material again.

　If you have a material, you can make items.It is no longer a familiar style in this kind of genre.

　In addition, if you hunt animals and fish and get meat and fish, you can create various foods that survive hunger, and if the materials are enriched, create metal tools and create safe bases.Can.By installing a furnace or workbench, you will be able to create a variety of items.

　If you craft new items, recipes for new items will be lifted again.Crafting unknown items is one of the gameplay conductors.

　In this way, the flow of this work is to search for means to escape the island while creating items from materials and using the created items.It follows the rules found in sandbox -type games with the theme of self -sufficiency and survival.

　The monkeys that are often reflected in screenshots will be described later.

If you have a monkey, you won't be lonely!

　The survival life of this work takes time to do anything.If you just cut the tree, it is a few seconds, but it takes several tens of seconds to break the rock containing valuable metal, and for some minutes for craft.

　It's an extreme example, but it can take more than an hour if you try to spread it on an outer wall to prevent a wide range from raids, and then spread the outside with traps.Even though the materials are available, you can't do whatever you want to make, and you can't do it honestly if you wait for one minute.

　However, this island has a reliable friend who can solve such troubles.That's monkey!

　Monkey is an NPC that can be a friend if you give the items you want or help you where you are trapped.It is a big feature that it can be lively just by accompanying it, but it is possible to instruct various actions by letting the player's mane.

　If you give instructions to the monkey to "manage the actions from now," and take a specific action, the monkey will manage the action.

　For example, if you want to mined a large amount of rocks.It takes a lot of time if the player mines one by one.

　If you need such a repetition work, the monkey comes in.The rest is OK if the player mines only one rock and passes tools such as stone axes to monkeys.Regardless of whether the player is watching, it will make a mining endlessly on the spot.

　After mining a rock, start mining nearby rock.Although there is a limit to the range of action, it will mined while moving around a wide range.

　There are plenty of other monkeys, such as making craft, picking up materials and putting them in a box.How much monkey can be used will lead to the comfort of this survival life.

　The mining of monkeys does not stop until the area is vacant.

　In addition, as monkey increases, various processes of survival life can be automated.

　In addition, this work will be given, but this work is a system in which the items obtained by mining etc. fall to the place, so if monkeys are endlessly mined as described above, the mountains are mounted on the nearby ground.It will be in a state where stones and metals are scattered.

　In such a case, if you pick up the material that has fallen into a separate monkey from the monkey and carry it to the box at the base, the transportation of the material obtained in addition to mining will be automated.Furthermore, another monkey is imitated in which the material is put in the kamad from a box at the base, and another monkey has a craft with a kamado.

　In this way, if you manage another action for each monkey, mining is automatically performed, and the dropped material is automatically collected to the base.After that, the material is automatically thrown into the kamad, and if it is automatically crafted, it can be automated so far.Rather than the monkey helps, an automation that can be said to be a powerful factory is completed.

　Leave the job to the monkey and do nothing.This is the ideal survival life!?

　And the goodness of monkeys is not only automated.The island, which is the stage of this work, is inhabited by ferocious beasts and natives who are hostile to this, and naturally becomes a survival life.Monkeys are convenient for dealing with these difficult enemy!

　Just as the mining is imitated, monkeys will quickly turn into a reliable companion who escorts the player if they attack animals and indigenous people.Whether it's a tiger or an indigenous person with a spear, it will go straight to the battle without fear.

　The monkey has almost no disadvantages even if it runs out, so the player is just looking at the monkey surrounding the enemy and making it bumpy.Monkey, you can rely on it.

　In addition, monkeys solve the problem that items that are likely to become a bottleneck cannot be brought in with these titles.Monkeys not only give instructions by manage their actions, but also have the player accompanied by holding a storage box for many items.

　The treasure chest in the dungeon can be carried to the monkey without removing the contents.

　The box that is being carried can be put in and out of the item as it is without removing it.In other words, the monkey is like a mobile storage box.It's a bit painful to bring a box filled with metals and furniture to a small monkey, but let's put up with it.

　When throwing away the current base and moving to a new base, it is OK if you put the item in the storage box and carry it to the monkey.

　Ride the squid to the new world ...Squid is narrow !!

　When it comes to a large household full of monkeys, it is possible to sort some monkeys to organize crafts and items, and to go to the search with another monkey.If the monkeys that have been waited for the base are made of food and weapons, the monkeys are ready for the next search by returning from the search.

　Once you use monkeys, you can't think of monkey -free survival life.It's a convenient guy.What is a monkey creature?

After all monkeys are managed by people !!

　In this work, monkeys will take over the repeated elements such as collecting materials and crafts, so as the game progresses to some extent, various aspects will be comfortable.However, the monkey is still a monkey.Not all -purpose.

　First, when mining or logging, you need tools such as stone axes regardless of whether the player does or monkeys do.This tool is something that decreases the durability as it is used and ultimately breaks.

　So, even if the mining is left to monkeys, if the tools you pass are broken, that's it.The monkey does nothing near the mining point.Since the weapon is durable, monkeys who instruct them to fight and hunting are the same.If your tools and weapons are broken, you need to change them to a new one before it breaks.

　And it is also a bottleneck that the monkeys are not flexible.

　Earlier, I wrote that if the tool is broken, I will stop mining, but if there is a tool, I will continue to take the same behavior until the tools I hand are broken or the material is gone unless the player instructs them."I want you to cut off only one tree" does not hear such instructions.

　Once you have to cut the tree, cut the surrounding trees from one end.If you want to stop logging on the way, you need to give instructions to interrupt your manet when you cut one tree.

　Also, even if the material is carried, the monkey knows only the "item near the hero picks up the material" in the "storage box".Even if she sees the protagonist putting a pebble in the storage box, if her grass is falling around, it will be a storage box.If the protagonist first fills the trees, they will try to put items in another storage box.The boxes that have only valuables and the boxes of the ingredients are all covered with wood.Still, it is convenient, but if you want only the same material to the storage box, you need to devise a player to pick up the surrounding grass in advance.

　If you put the tools on the side of the material you want to carry, you will be taken away by monkeys.

　In this way, monkeys are convenient, but the more monkeys use monkeys, the more they need to manage monkeys so that they can move conveniently.He should have used monkeys, but work for monkeys.Moreover, as the number of monkeys increases, the amount of work increases.Which is the higher position (laughs)?

　It looks busy when you write like this, but if you change your perspective, the more you manage, the greater the result of the monkey.If there is only one player, the result of doing one task is 1, and the life with a large amount of monkeys can be 5 or 10.

　The materials that can be obtained even at the same time are often different, and the enemy can be defeated efficiently.In addition, it is pleasant to be able to proceed with craft and exploration at the same time, and the stability and efficiency of survival life will increase steadily.

　Survival with monkeys who follow themselves, which are completely different from survival alone and survival with multiple players.There are both the fun of the inconvenience and the fun of becoming free.