I know it's not technically a survival game, but Mad Max's underbelly airport in the dunes is terrifying to explore. So is the region outside Gastown where there's constant sniper towers and junkyard terrain
@@mackenziemoore5088 I've been replaying it recently on PC and my God it's such a good game. It's one of the only open world games I've actually tried to 100% because of how fun it is
I think Green Hell can be in this list too. It's one of the most challenging survival games I played and one of the most beautiful visually. It takes place in the Amazonian Rain-forest which is a place I'm familiar with as a Brazilian. I admire survival games that take place in the forest.
Agreed. The toll physical activity takes on your stamina, which can make you pass out midday leading to no sleep at night, and the many other things in game that affect sanity plus how much you have to focus on nutrition alone just compounds what can already be a challenging game.
There is a game on steam named Bigfoot you might like it because the setting takes place In a forest and is getting more maps, Bigfoot can be scary at times.
I like how in Minecraft they essentially borrowed the name the Deep Dark from Extra Utilities which had it's own version of the Deep Dark. With the Darkness being your main enemy, and the method to get there requiring some rather explosive ingots.
I am just so happy that 7 days to die has been mentioned... Haha I have so many hours in this game. The wasteland though is the worst! You can have all the best weapons and have like several zombie dogs attack you with no chance. Or even those zombie bears are rough because they can take so much damage.
With all honesty, most of Ark's locations top all of these by miles. The location included in the list is just a baby island for beginners. Dark, maze-like caves filled with poisonous animals, sometimes even poisonous fungus can really break even the toughest players. Underwater ravines where you cannot see and get attacked by every horror from the deep. Swamps, where crocodiles can literally jump at you and drag you into the water. What about the insides of an active volcano that is full of hostile animals and if you don't watch out, you will be toasted from the eruption? There are even places where literal wyverns live and burn you to crisp if they see you. And I haven't even mentioned Aberration lol.
It would be really cool if you guys put chapters in the video. Sometimes, I get bored or dont care about all the games on the list and just want to watch certain sections.. But maybe I'm not your demographic. I love your videos. Thanks for all you do :)
Lovely ❤️ As an Fan of Good Survival games I Can in fact relate to some places Especially to the Mall in Zomboid... Damn that thing is hell cramped inside a Nice mall 😂😜👍
As sombody who has played subnautica and been in the lava zone just build a base use a advanced suit if u don't wanna build a base just simply get the cyclops put 2 grow beds and pick a food of your choice which makes sure you dong need to worry about food and water
In Fallout 4 the Glowing Sea is a dangerous location not to mention the Rad Scorpions,Feral Ghouls,Children of Atom(If you attack the cult they attack u makes sense),and worse of all DeathClaws everywhere.
What about Quarry junction from New Vegas, place where are dozens of deathclaws situated? I am not a stealth guy, but how Obsidian made deathclaws extremelly deadly, only approach to this place was sniper rifle, strong armor if you get spotted, and spamming VATS for headshots.
i loved carno island (yet another name fot dead island) on xbox we called it carno island because it was always full of carno. A great place to get meat and prime meat. Nut the Volcano island of the center map is far far more damgerous. The island is the easiest map. But i ended up quiting ark because of the lag that never got fixed: The devs are more interested in adding new dinos who makes the lag worse then actually fixing the game and not counting the DLCs the game takes 135 Gb of memory... Thats like downloading Halo Infinite 7 times! And its graphics aren't even that good. Wild Card needs to decrease that down to under 20 Gb if they hope to ever fix the lag. Look at Rust, it has the same graphical quality as Ark yet occupies less then 10 Gb of memory. Its pretty obvious there are major amounts of pointless data in Ark that needs deleting. - Oh and if you plan on beating the game, you will need the artifact of the cave on carno island.
I would say that the lava lakes in subnautica is not bad. The two annoying parts are the leechers that leech the energy of your vehicle and the sea dragon leviathans. Both are annoying but not really hard or scary. A better place is the dunes biome. It has the second most reaper leviathans in the game with the crash zone having the most and the mountains having the least. Reason I said the dunes is because you will probably only meet one reaper in the crash zone to go to the aurora and probably wont go far enough east in the mountains biome for reapers to be there. The dunes just scare me a lot because when I go to that area of the map, I keep wondering whether I have accidentally gone inside the dunes.
The Warden from Minecraft got updated: It has now a Sonic Boom! And about Project Zomboid, for me, everything everywhere is dangerous! Because if you step in broken glas and you dont take care of the wound, you get a sepsis and then you are dead!
How about just Aberration from Ark? That while map is just rough. I've spawned in at an easy location to instantly be attacked by basilisk... Awesome. Then you add in the surface during the day which instantly destroys your gear and moments later you as well as buildings outside of tek. Or the irradiated sections underground. Which house so sorts of horrifying creatures like reapers. And the map has an immense amount of verticality with no fliers and few climbers.
with below zero i always have my prawn suit becouse of the weather and i do wish i could interact with more items and objects in the prawn suit hopefully the devs if they're making a game i hope it is similar to the subnautica and the gear and i do hope the next version of prawn suit the fourth one we can interact with the inventory while inside and the way i believe we could interact with the inventory of the new model of the prawn suit is it has its own tablet permanently on either right or left side
I don’t know about that. There’s no way to save. I was pretty thorough, and I didn’t find any radiation-free beds. You’ve got to do it all in one sitting, without dying. Some of the game’s toughest enemies are there. It’s also a main story zone, and neither end-game nor DLC, like most of the ones in the video. If you don’t do side quests, you’re probably going to have a bad time.
@@mdredheadguy1979 I guess I had you figured wrong. I just assumed you played on Survival difficulty, since you’re saying The Glowing Sea wasn’t hard. Like I said, not being able to save from Somerville Place, until you return to Somerville Place, really ramps up the challenge. In survival, you can only save when you sleep. And you can’t sleep while taking radiation. And you take constant radiation the whole time. Saving whenever you want? Not an option. I thought you knew. Most of what’s on the top 10 are DLC, or a random area with high level monsters that don’t normally appear until you’re high level yourself. Basically, these areas expect you to be high level. The Glowing Sea is a mid-game main quest. It’s pretty unfair to make the comparison, which you may or may not be doing. Required mid-game content isn’t going to hold up to optional DLC, which assumes you’ve beat the game. However, you could make things hard on yourself. You could go straight main questline, no side missions. Your level and gear would be barely able to handle it. Do it on survival difficulty, which means deathless. It’s going to kick your ass, doing it like that. You probably did a bunch of side quests before you went, right? That helps makes things easier. Obviously you didn’t do it on Survival difficulty. Enemies are far more deadly, and you’re much squishier. Ultimately, in an RPG like Fallout 4, difficulty is pretty much up to you. And it amuses me that you could say something like The Glowing Sea isn’t challenging, when you take the easy road.
@@christophercollins3632 oh, okay. I haven't played Fallout 4 on survival mode. I got sick and tired of having to micromanage all the settlements! So the last time I played, I took control of the Nukaworld raider gangs, then used them to take over the rest of the Commonwealth! I turned all the farms into vasuls, and limited how many raider settlements I had! As far as I'm concerned, having the settlements automatically trade, plus having some dedicated to just producing food and water, that's how the settlement system SHOULD have been set up! Or at least let us players have the option to do it that way!
@@mdredheadguy1979 I enjoy making settlements, mostly constructing the fortifications and a base. It also makes it so scrounging for junk worthwhile. In the other games I’ve played, 3, NV, I grew to be selective, hauling only the high value stuff. I like that junk means something throughout the experience. I can understand the micromanagement can be a bit much. Getting the structures going was fun. What I avoid, until there’s nothing left to do, is getting settlers geared up. In survival, there’s no fast travel. You have to run everywhere. So settlement attacks are often ignored. It’s too far. Takes too long. I found that there weren’t any consequences, long term, for ignoring attacks. That’s one thing I would like to change. Make there be a harsher punishment for ignoring an attack. And a bonus for defending one. The addition of the settlement system was a great idea, even if all the kinks weren’t ironed out.
I love deep diving into these survival genres. Never really played until I got subnautica and now I have this itch to play the forest and dont starve post elden ring!
I would give Outward a try it has some similar combat to Souls and has a really big open world with survival elements also in the beginning the game can be pretty brutal...you have no fast travel no map markers and if bandits reduce you to zero HP you will wake up in a prison mine with nothing you will have to go find your backpack which in fights you have to drop or you fat roll.
Give the metro series a shot great story telling but play ranger hardcore for the true survival horror experience ammo is scare stealth is your ally and stealth ko is your friend ammo is expensive don’t waste it.
7 Days to Die is really fun to play with friends. Glad to see it mentioned here! The Wasteland is definitely worth exploring with the increased biome loot bonus.
@@brodriguez11000 not really if you know the building layouts and use the enviroment to your advantage, wall run everywhere and just watch for lepers/spitters/crows.
I had a good stint on that game with friends, few years ago. Really enjoyed it until the map decided to wipe our buildings. We chalked it up as a bug, started again and it did it again. It was then uninstalled indefinitely
The caves in the forest are awesome and scary at the same time. They're great , the main thing that gives you the jump scare is the 1 bat that flies past everytime you enter the caves. The deeper caves with armseys , spider ladies and annoying babies is where the fun & horror begins plus its hilarious in coop.
0:14 Acrtic Spires in Subnautica: Below Zero 1:30 The Wasteland 2:38 ARK: Survival Evolved 3:51 Ruins in Don't Starve 4:49 Caves from The Forest 6:01 Frost Caves in Valheim 6:50 Haze in Grounded 7:45 Minecraft 8:52 Lava Lakes in Subnautica 9:46 the Mall from Project Zomboid
I'm thinking: the entirety of Trespasser? I haven't made it past ANY of the dinos, let alone the opening level in that game. Then again, I suck at survival games...
After playing The Forest over and over again, I have to say, it is safer in the caves then the surface. For two reasons, the cannibals in the cave don't respawn, but the loot does. Find one place, clear it out and if food spawns there, you can stay there for ever. Reason 2, the surface gets harder the longer you survive, after a few days bosses will spawn with an army of cannibals to take you out, even if you do clear them out you are spending your resources in the process. In a few days a new wave will arrive, meaning you have to quickly gather new supplies if you want to survive
You can also cheese the mist enemys because of all the high rocks you can climb with jump Spam the only danger is to get lost i have like 3k hours and still are confused by the two caves in the north
Ahhh Carnivore Island. First time I stumbled onto its shores I had no idea what I had found. That was extremely short lived. The second time I came prepared and built a base on that angled rock you see in the clip. Make it high enough and at least you're safe from the land based dinos. Just watch your step.
I didn't get into "7 Days To Die" until tons of updates had rolled out and I absolutely love it. Scratches the survival/basebuilding itch for me way more than similar games.
BEST. RU-vid. CHANNEL. OF. ALL. TIME. real talk. You guys are amazing! So so so so so glad I found this channel years ago. Ps Falcon is my dad. He went to grab worms from the store 23 years ago and never came back…..
I feel like all the maps from Ark could be on here. i'm really shocked you only picked one small section of just one map. Hell, the desert map is the hardest place to survive in my opinion. On normal settings or higher you'll probably be dead before you can even find water. Especially if it's your first time playing the map. The genesis 2 map where you're stuck in the abandoned city with the irradiated wasteland around it is pretty bad too, but more because of how hard it is to find food than anything else. there are basically only robots and flyers inside the city and going outside the city is going to immediately start killing you. Even if you survive the wastes, all the animals out there are mutated and incredibly high level.
I think you're confusing Genesis 2 with Extinction. Genesis 2 has you exploring a massive space ship. Extinction has the city with the wasteland and biodomes outside.
@@tomasdelcampo2 you're right. The game doesn't even give an indication that Caelid is not for under leveled players. People find that out when they get REKKED
It's crazy how Conan Exiles is so commonly ignored by most channels. Ok, it had a very buggy beginning, but man, is that an awesome game full of misteries and challenges, for me probably if not the best, one of the best survival games. It's kind of a mixture of a soulslike game with great survival and building mechanics, huge variety of enemies and Boss fights, feeling of rpg, adventure, dungeons, lot of places there could fit in this video's list.
@@joshm5922 Yeah, I understand, bad ones here and there sometimes, but normally you can get around it. When it works it's a cool game, and they still support it, I guess for me the good parts win over the bugs.
I started playing it with my girlfriend on ps5 about a month ago and Im loving it. She’s an expert so it wasn’t so overwhelming at the start. It runs great I’ve barely had any bugs even on an east coast official server
I remember putting a base on carnivore island and never ever getting attacked. Wasnt because i had good defense it was the mere fact that no one else wanted to be there fending off wild dinos
The Long Dark. Just in general game and depending on the difficulty you play on. Some areas are more dangerous than others because of wolf's, Timberwolves, and bears. Plus the constant cold.
Regarding Valheim, I would pick swamps over frost caves, they are truly horrible place to spend time in, more so early in the game with those roaming abominations.
