The Forever Winter ‘Gameplay Overview’ trailer
A deeper look at the squad-based tactical looter-shooter.
Fun Dog Studios has released a gameplay overview trailer and new screenshots for cooperative tactical survival horror third-person shooter The Forever Winter.
“The Forever Winter isn’t about being the biggest or the strongest; it’s about outsmarting your enemies and making the most of every resource you find. Survival is your greatest achievement, because there are only three types of scavs: the fast, the smart, and the dead,” said Fun Dog Studios CEO and creative director Miles Williams in a press release. “I can’t wait for folks to get their hands on it, starting with Early Access very soon. But getting the game out is just the beginning. We look forward to working closely with our community to refine and expand the game for as long as there’s love for dark futures.”
Get the latest details below.
New Trailer
The Forever Winter‘s new trailer unpacks the game’s squad-based, tactical looter-shooter approach and features a deeper look at the Player-Versus-Environment-Versus-Environment Scenario System that governs the chaos of the battlefield, directs NPC factions towards achieving their own objectives, and aims to eliminate any player who rises beyond nuisance-level. The trailer also showcases The Forever Winter‘s war-torn world, available player classes, and progression, ways to customize your build in order to survive, and features a long look at new enemy types and gameplay.
About
In The Forever Winter, players are a scavenging survivor, leading a community of like-minded individuals who only want to be left alone. Unfortunately, AI controlled factions like Europa and Eurasia control all of the world’s existing resources, and are at constant war with each other to secure more. This means the player must navigate these battlefields to collect the needed resources for their communities to survive.
Key Features
- Prepare for Hell – Players join up at the community hub where they can buy from vendors selling weapons, pharmaceuticals, and additional gear to prepare for the maze ahead, accept missions or dirty jobs from NPCs and rival factions and more.
- Player-Versus-Environment-Versus-Environment Scenario System – Enemies have their own goals and agendas, operating in coordinated groups, and undertaking full-scale battles. Enemy AI deploys enemies in squads based on their current objectives, with each squad reacting differently to player actions. As the player gets more powerful or makes a bigger mark on the battlefield, the enemy will deploy more (and stronger) firepower to counter. And players will never be stronger than the enemy.
- Brace the Cold Challenges Ahead – While surviving is always the primary goal, players can earn more XP, gear and money by taking on quests. Each quest has varying threat levels commensurate with their risk and reward: harder quests give larger reputation rewards that increase your faction standings, earn more credits, and get rewarded with more powerful gear.
- Increase Skills and Gear Up to Survive – Spend accumulated resources between sessions to level up health, speed, accuracy and reload speed that give you a fighting chance against The Forever Winter’s relentless enemies.
- Prioritize Stealth and Teamwork – Coordinate with your squad to outsmart enemies and avoid detection to gain the upper hand, or tactically plan battles and ambushes to win guerilla engagements. Just don’t take the enemy head-on. You won’t live to tell the tale.
- Death is Just the Beginning (Again) – If your squad dies, the run’s over. And death is unforgiving. If you fall in battle, you’ll lose everything in your inventory for that session, and have to start over from scratch. Build up a stash back at base between sessions to keep the upper hand in the future.
The Forever Winter will be available for PC via Steam, with the potential for additional platforms based on the game’s success and community feedback. A release date has not been announced.
Watch the trailer below. View the screenshots at the gallery.