Welcome Survivalists!
Our new and improved demo has just washed up on the Steam shores! Play with friends online or solo on a brand new island! Take grip of a shovel and dig with a shovel, find some lore and much more!
The Survivalists is a survival game set in the Escapists Universe where you can play co-op with up to three friends or solo! Explore, build, craft and tame monkeys on Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and Steam in Q4 2020.
Stop monkeying around... and download the brand new demo.Here!
You can also pre-order The Survivalists here on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/897450
See all of the pre-order bonuses here: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/897450/view/4337481190581536794
What's new and changed?
- New Island (same seed for every player).
- Keyboard and mouse support.
- Shovel is now in the game, can dig for buried treasure and remove tree stumps.
- Mysterious chest is available allowing players to take items to their friends island in an online game.
- Mud resource is available for using in pebble flooring.
- Pebble flooring is available.
- Improved monkey control on mouse and keyboard.
- Lore somewhere on the island all the way from the time of antiquity.
- Added Monkey glossary to the Journal.
- Added Monkey tutorial quests.
- Added "How to play" section to the pause menu.
- Changed controls for dropping items and craft in hand.
- Added Accessibility options to the settings menu.
- Added text labels for ingredients needed to complete crafting recipes.
- New lore added for the player that spawns at the start of the game.
- Changed the missing bed sheet icon over the bed to be green.
- Updated the locked recipe icons.
- Increased speed of recipe unlock animation.
- Improved customisation colour options.
- Enemies can now be seen behind objects.
- Monkeys set to follow are now outlined.
- The nearest intractable object is now highlighted.
- Pick up item prompt now displays the name of the item that will be picked up.
- Sparkle effect added to searchable objects.
- Various other improvements and bug fixes.
A Discord server is now open for Survivalists to hang out and talk desert island life! Oh and did we mention there's monkey emotes? Join here.
It's time to dig away your worries and your stumps.
Welcome to the new demo!
To keep up to date with all desert island news:
The Survivalists Discord
The Survivalists Twitter
The Survivalists Facebook
Team 17 Twitter
Team 17 Facebook
Team 17 Discord