Want to play survival games, but too afraid to go it alone? Developer, 8 Points, new Kickstarter project, The Wild Eight, lets you bring eight of your closest co-op buddies along for the hellish ride. The game centers around a group of people unceremoniously dumped into the Alaskan wilderness when their plane crashes. They (meaning you) must band together to help each other survive the dangerous new environment. If the cold doesn’t kill them, the local carnivores are happy to take up the challenge.
The top-down perspective is a pet peeve of mine, and while the art looks nice, it’s nothing we haven’t already seen implemented in other survive the cold style games. Outside of the possibly mysterious circumstances of the plane crash, I’m not sure how the developers plan to set this game apart. The campaign page teases the possibility of the survivors turning on one another and goes so far as to hint that cannibalism could be a potential outcome, but I’m not sure how player agency would factor into this.
The eight possible survivors follow standard archetypes; smart, lucky, strong, and pick up new survival skills as the game progresses. This allows them to gang up on and club animals to death with greater efficiency. Having a good group who is willing to work together seems to be your best bet at survival, which means the community will be a huge factor in determining how fun The Wild Eight ultimately ends up being to play.
The Wild Eight has a $50,000 goal, and not much to entice backers in the way of rewards. You have to hit the $50 mark for any physical rewards and everything up until then is just repackaged copies of the game or beta access. I get letting the game speak for itself, but even though I want to The Wild Eight, I feel like it’s missing the opportunity to do something new and different.
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I’m definitely more excited about it than you are, I think it looks great!
I wanted to be excited, but the more I looked into it the more it seemed like they missed the mark.
I’m really loving the looks and concept, but I really think 8 is a weird number. Since the campaign doesn’t really mention how many players will be able to inhabit an online world, I can imagine how odd it’d be to see a bunch of identical “Cole” guys running around 😀
Good looking game with intriguing features. Though guys do really know what backer wants: pledged the pack for 4 players. Looking forward to play with friends XD
I liked their reveal trailer a lot. Hope the game will be the same quality…
I could pledge the one as Crazy Early Bird lol. Now I’m frustrating and think about how to get another one copy to play on Steam first in Dec 2016 and then Xbox later on 2017. but there’s no such reward:(
I see Pack X2 there!
just check it and sh..t, it’s only for 2x Steam copy. there’s no pack of consoles + pc. I found the one Early Bird x4 pack for $50 but also Steam only. I will propose devs to create new reward for PC+consoles 🙂
Oh. Crowdfunding is such a complicated thing haha. I advise you to just make a second profile and select $15 pledge one more time (don’t be late with this)
it sounds good but i’ve just sent request to devs on KS hehe;) hope to get answer soon
I bet they’re not going to answer it, Alex. Try to write it in comments field!
I got a reply from devs…sooooooo…….they’ll consider a new reward shortly
Sounds nice, good job!
So, I don’t have any friends to play with. Does this game will be with good single player, what do you think?
Gulyaeva, is it a Russian Name? They wrote “Survive and explore the forest side by side with other players or go solo” i think that means that i’ll be better to play with someone by your side. Let’s buy a pack for two player, it’s gonna be cheaper!
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