I played a good chunk with a eletrified cane knife

Yes, because that was a successful Loop Zook. Think of all the people who saw it and found it a good idea, then tried to imitate it. Or do it with a sniper rifle instead of a bazooka.

On topic: I'll also say Don't Starve. Haven't been surrounded by monsters so far, but I haven't played that much of it either.

well since someone already mentioned Starbound , which btw is helmed by the guy the creator of Terraria brought on to do some of the sprite work on the 1.1 update and left to start work on Stabound when work on new content initially stopped which makes me wonder if the four guys he hired to help with the forthcoming 1.2 update will go off to make their own Terraria style games?, so I will throw out Edge of Space which like Starbound is a Terraria inspired 2d sandbox style game. some gameplay from the Beta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eHIPHyLlk


Yeah I been playing it for a few months now and you really don't get swarmed by monsters unless you say attack a giant nest of spiders or attack a beehive at most you only have to deal with one or two monsters and those are not that common. Well save for the set hound event that happens after your first X days in the world and Adventure mode but adventure mode is meant to be hard and the game warns you first and if you go into adventure mode through sandbox and die you just go back to your Sandbox world .

Aside from many of the games mentioned, I'll add Under the Ocean and it's freeware predecessor Under the Garden and the upcoming (more focused on crafting/harvesting than survival by the looks of it) Stardew Valley.

Thanks for all the sugestions until the moment people, certainly will try some of them

And will leave my own suggestion of game (not played because is in development yet), the crafting is more base building-based, but had a survival part: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1317934609/forsaken-fortress

Timber and Stone.

Still waiting on my email but after all of the pre-order emails go out, it'll be available to buy for an undetermined price, probably later tonight.

Seconding Under the Ocean, which sounds a lot like what you would like.

i played a bit of this game, the first time when the night fall and i didnt know that i had to make fire and got killed in the dark was fun, second time lasted very long, but soon the game got boring , then really boring

Thirding or fourthing Unreal World. The 3.16 installer was just updated to v3 in the last week, btw. Installed again a few days ago.

Still in the free to play mode, donations appreciated.

The LARP-like quality of the in-game images was a bit of a turn-off at first, but they've grown on me.

Starforge and Planet Explorers are already in my backed list, the others must check first, but looks some are more MP-oriented or like Minecraft at night you can't walk more than 4 min without being swamped by enemies...


I was thinking Skyrim is a good candidate for something like this if someone manages to remove all NPCs and houses and expand the crafting system to include things like shelters

Well if you're considering Skyrim, then here are the best mods for making a game a true survival :-)

- Frostfall - Hypothermia Camping Survival http://www.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11163

-Hunting in Skyrim http://www.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/18866

-Realistic Needs and Diseases http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/26228

Hope it helps!

Oh, that's a nice list. I like the Terraria clones or spin-offs. Pity most of them are in early alpha.

Don't Starve is reeeeeeally good. Enemies are definitely less common than in MC and Terraria, especially early on.