Best Base-building survival games

[Katsu]

I need some recommendations for the best base-building survival games out there!

Please don't recommend games like Fortnite, Rust, Dayz and Minecraft or anything like that, thanks.

[RavEn]

Subsistence,Ark

[Ogami]

Easy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/251570/7_Days_to_Die/

[Katsu]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Easy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/251570/7_Days_to_Die/

that one's still in early access for so long and the reviews are mixed...

[Ogami]

85% Very Positive is not "mixed".

Also i played the game since 2015, it was great then and is great now.

I recommend watching this review about the current status of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzUupHlDeM


I dont want you to force to play the game but you asked for the best survival base building game.
And for me that is "7 Days to Die" without a doubt.

[Katsu]

Originally posted by Ogami:

85% Very Positive is not "mixed".

Also i played the game since 2015, it was great then and is great now.

I recommend watching this review about the current status of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzUupHlDeM


I dont want you to force to play the game but you asked for the best survival base building game.
And for me that is "7 Days to Die" without a doubt.

aight but i do wonder how the game is still in early access after 7 years?

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Liam:

aight but i do wonder how the game is still in early access after 7 years?

Because they still working on it and adding new stuff.
They are currently on Alpha 19. What you need to understand, each new Alpha version is nearly a new game. They change and add so much stuff that if you would compare, say, Alpha 15 with Alpha 19 they are completely different games apart from the basic premise.

The video i linked was still Alpha 18, the last Alpha 19 update has VASTLY improved the graphics, added dozens of new zombie types, new weapons, over a hundred new locations to explore and and and.
The game is about 95% finished at this point, the next Alpha will be the last one before the game gets into BETA for final bug fixes and such and then release is planned.
Could change again ( did in the past) but my point is, the game is a tremendous amount of fun, even while its still in "Early Access".
Its not like something is missing from the game, its 100% completely playable with all the features and such, they just add more and more to it.

[Brian9824]

Yep i'd also suggest 7 days to die. 85% positive all time reviews, 91% positive recent reviews. Easy to mod with a robust community and a ton of replayability.

[Katsu]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Liam:

aight but i do wonder how the game is still in early access after 7 years?

Because they still working on it and adding new stuff.
They are currently on Alpha 19. What you need to understand, each new Alpha version is nearly a new game. They change and add so much stuff that if you would compare, say, Alpha 15 with Alpha 19 they are completely different games apart from the basic premise.

The video i linked was still Alpha 18, the last Alpha 19 update has VASTLY improved the graphics, added dozens of new zombie types, new weapons, over a hundred new locations to explore and and and.
The game is about 95% finished at this point, the next Alpha will be the last one before the game gets into BETA for final bug fixes and such and then release is planned.
Could change again ( did in the past) but my point is, the game is a tremendous amount of fun, even while its still in "Early Access".
Its not like something is missing from the game, its 100% completely playable with all the features and such, they just add more and more to it.

How is the optimization? Do I need a good PC to play it without low fps and such? ive read posts about people with really good specs having really bad fps problems

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Liam:

How is the optimization? Do I need a good PC to play it without low fps and such? ive read posts about people with really good specs having really bad fps problems

Alpha 19 improved the performance a lot but i cant really tell you how it will run on lower end systems. I play on a Ryzen 2600x/ RTX 2080 in 1440p and that runs fine for me with 60 FPS+.

But the game has a ton of graphical settings you can adjust, so it should not be hard to tune it to your system capabilities.
Unless you have a real potato.

I would recommend waiting to buy the game anyway till the next sale.
Its usually 75% off during big sales and the Steam Autumn sale is coming up at the end of the month.

[eram]

A19 is running a lot better than the other versions so far, and much better graphics.

[John_Crichton]

I haven't played it in a while (& with a number of version updates, I'd maybe read that roving storms - the most dynamic hazard it had back then - were no longer unavoidable) - but the Astroneer by System Era Softworks(/Softwerks?) game is actually pretty engrossing & intimately ambitious, If you haven't tried it out. The interfaces were remarkably intuitive [at least before the release - I think now there's some unlock-tech-through-scanning-to-digitze(? I think, it's weird; physical artifact-like samples are put into a powered "Research" module & that generates "bytes" to invest unlocking the tech-tree ?)-objects] and satisfying, keeping the three-dimensional-ity of your customize-able bases composition & taking a fun swap-able modular approach to base & vehicle/ vehicle & spacesuit (and less-usefully spacesuit-to-base) interchangeable philosophy.