The Dawn Of Survival Games - A Stranded II Retrospective 

The functioning jankiness, the chunky models, the accessible map editor, the easter eggs, the random gameplay-shifting missions, that one game mode from another genre that comes out of nowhere: now this is the pure essence of someone just fucking around in a game engine for fun that I live for. It's one aspect of early games that I miss, graphics and uhhhhh "biases of the time" aside

Steve's got nothing on this guy, he washes up on an island and just starts smashing solid stone with his bare hands

What the... I... Remember this game! I played it before. Its like something my brain completely erased

one of my first interactions with survival games was mfing sims 2 castaway way back then, i remember nothing about the game but i know i struggled in the early game as a kid and it's a widely unknown game, good times tho

"Predates most of my audience" "Released in 2007" *Slowly crumbles to dust* 💀 😆

Thank you very much for that video! Really enjoyed watching it :) (and btw: you pronounced my name perfectly!)

God, i remember when I was still super young on RU-vid watching people play this game and they never even found the pick lock (at least I don’t remember them doing so) so it was really weird seeing the length of this vid and wondering what was the point of it being so long! Never knew this game had such a wack plot lol, but honestly it made the game even more charming to me. I’d never imagine this game had whole island hopping and wizards much less a plot at all, really felt like the person who made this really went the extra mile! One thing I don’t like about this game though is the title, as I remember trying to find this game plenty of times on RU-vid before and I just couldn’t cause so many stuff just has the word “stranded” in it sadly. Ended finding it again on a vid on this guys CS fangame. Though, thanks again on covering this game 🎉! Stranded 3 looks really promising from what I’ve seen, so I hope it’s good cause I’m playing it!

Acid trip? No, we're going on an acid adventure!

Survival games are so cool especially when you can build up to the point of self reliance or auto work. It just gives you a rush and sense of accomplishment

I used to love this game when I was younger.

I remember watching a modded playthrough of this where someone shot down a bird and cooked it over a grill, such fond memories without ever playing it

Ah i remember being a wee lad watching gameplay of this game, fun times, more innocent times.

what a gem. my story is the same as yours. played it as a child. replayed it at 2023. finished it. I also trained a monkey. and got my crop eaten by some bugs over and over again. awesome video. please get a better mic.

Wow, memory unlocked. Thank you so much! In fact, I even played the obscure original German game "Schiffbruch". As a kid I was all over freeware game pages. I never imagined I'd see that again, lol

"predates most of my audience" me who was already gainfully employed by the time the first one came out; *pika pi???*

Congrats, I am pmayin it again aftdr several years of not being able to remember its name

Deus was out before stranded and schiffbruch, back in 1996, and even robinson's requiem that was out even earlier they are extremely deep and complex survival games for that time

9:52 that poor snail 😭

Stranded was probably the first survival game released. I remember after playing Stranded 2 thinking, is anyone ever going to make another survival game? A Brillant idea by Unreal Software but others were slow catching on. There's a Stranded 3 in development :)

I remember playing this game

We're back!

Damn the nostalgia

I remember, when i was 12 was when i first touched this game, getting yelled at by my mother to never play this devil's game again when she spotted over my shoulder that it had hemp in it Good times

your narration is really good,

Funny thing there is one game I remeber as quite survival game and it's "Tajemnicza wyspa" made in 2004 I guess orginal Stranded is 2003 also Robinson's Requiem is a facinating study algonside Unreal world

Ah yes good old german games. This is a certified Deutscher Entwickler moment

yay

2:02 Schiffbruch stream confirmed?!?

this is just like UNDERTALE!

Wah, how did u get this game?!

awesome vid tho

hello

Hello Mr. Bams

Unreal world was made before 1999

3rd Comment, Like, and 11th view. I know no one cares but I'm proud.