Make your survival more challenging thanks to our Sanity System🧠

Welcome to another development update for Winter Survival. I hope you had a fantastic time over the weekend and you’re ready to face the challenges awaiting you ahead. Speaking of challenges, in today’s devlog we’re gonna have a closer look into one of our features which will make your survival experience more unique and challenging. In other words - today’s devlog is all about the sanity system. I just hope it won’t drive you mad after reading this 🙀



Just before we jump into the nitty-gritty details, I just wanted to let you know that Winter Survival is a part of the Steam Next Fest event which is already live. If you’re on a lookout for some challenging survival titles, Winter Survival is the game to go. What is more, if you still feel like you’d like to learn more about the demo and game itself, we’ll be live streaming tomorrow at 7pm CET time over on Steam and our official twitch.tv account. If you have any questions for us, don’t hesitate and visit us tomorrow.



[h2]How does the Sanity System work? 🧠[/h2]

Alrighty, let’s start from the very beginning. In Winter Survival you as a player must take care of certain needs in order to stay alive. This includes: hunger, thirst, temperature, energy, and your mind. What is more, during your gameplay you’ll face a variety of different debuffs that you will need to treat as well. Every time you neglect taking proper care of yourself, it’ll have a negative effect on your mind.



How? Well, let me give you an example. Let’s assume that you have a bleeding debuff (because you weren’t careful enough and got bitten by a wolf, right?). As soon as the circle around your debuff fills, each time it affects your mind by a certain percentage. Once your brain fills 100%, the next time you go to sleep the sanity system will kick in.



Depending on which part of your brain got affected, you might either be presented with a set of negative symptoms to choose from or random parts from your adaptation tree will be burned out temporarily. There might even be a situation where your health will be lowered till the moment you finish a given challenge. Let’s focus for a while on the adaptation part, as I’ll come back to the symptoms later.



The way it works is simple – let’s assume that the first section got burned out, which means that in order to create an ax for example you’ll need three branches, four rocks, and two ropes, instead of two rocks, one branch, and one rope. If you want to pull everything back to the normal state, you’ll have to complete the given challenge – from walking 5,000 steps, to killing two random animals, and so on.



[h2]Symptoms 🤒[/h2]

Now, let’s talk a little bit more about symptoms in Winter Survival. For those of you who have previously played our prologue, you know that those might make your blood boil. However, since the prologue release, we’ve been working tirelessly on some brand-new symptoms as well as improving the old ones. Let’s start with the coimetrophobia 😱

[h3]Coimetrophobia☠️[/h3]

Simply put – fear of the graves. If you’ve already played our demo (if not, I highly encourage you to do so) you might have noticed that there are quite a lot of graves scattered around the area. What this symptom does is every time you’re close to a grave you’ll slowly run out of stamina. The closer you get, the faster your stamina will deplete.



[h3]Delusional predator 🐺[/h3]

If you thought that wolves are gonna be your pain in the butt (I mean, they will be eventually) what do you think about phantom ones? Yes, that’s right – if you decide to go with the delusional predator symptom, sooner or later you’ll start seeing fake wolves scattered around the map. Don’t worry tho – if you take a closer look, they slightly differ from the normal ones. How cool is that?



[h3]Delusional prey 🦌[/h3]

Apart from the delusional predator symptom, we’ve also managed to add the prey as well. From now on, you’ll be hunted (pun intended) by phantom deers and rabbits during your voyage and fight for a tiny piece of meat.



[h2]Languages[/h2]

With the demo being available on the Steam Next Fest, we've also managed to add a bunch of heavily requested languages. From now on you can play Winter Survival demo in your mother tounge – how cool is that?

[h2]Stay up-to-date 📰[/h2]

Phew…That’s a long devlog, isn’t it? I can already say that it’s just the beginning as we’ll have the second part for you ready by this Friday. Anyway, let me know down in the comments how you like this devlog and if you have any suggestions regarding the future devlogs and game itself, make sure to leave your feedback in the comments down below. Last but not the least, if you feel like Winter Survival is your cup of tea, check the demo which is currently available as a part of Steam Next Fest, and add the game to your wishlist, so you won’t miss the Early Access release on February 28th, 2024! 🙇

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1394960/Winter_Survival/

~Your humble marketing guy - Sewek