We loved the fact that the major dangers were sharks in the water and snakes on the land. We also liked the fact that the more you build, the better you get and the more options open up for you as you level up. Now let's talk about the stuff we really liked: we loved the range of things you could make, from buildings and beds to rafts. That said, it was a bit weird that at the start you couldn't manage to make a shiv, and before long you're Tony Stark, but somehow we didn't care that much. Rather than just surviving, you have to make it to the centre of the map and rebuild a plane.

There is a sort of story with an overall goal and we really appreciated that.

The first few minutes works as a tutorial showing you the basics of survival: build a shelter, a fire, kill a crab and cook it, skin a coconut, make a shiv - you know, the standard stuff you do on a trip to the Isle of Wight.Īfter that, you're on your own. Indeed, the graphics are one of our favourite things and we enjoyed looking out at the ocean and the islands. Set in a tropical archipelago, this first-person survival experience was, at times, a joy to behold. Soon after the plane crashes into the ocean, you swim up to a raft and make your way to the nearest tropical island. While there are similarities between this game and that one, with elements of both Subnautica and Raft, Stranded Deep does try to do its own thing. Stranded Deep starts off like many another survival game and you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is very similar to The Forest at first.

You start off on what looks like a private jet - and you can guess what happens next.

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