Ok, so everyone has spent the day informing me of other horror games set in WW1. That being said, I'm doubling down and changing to title to an even more solid stance on the issue.
Doesn't Clive Barket's Undying also count as a WW1 survival horror? It takes place during WW1, your character comes home from the war, and part of the story is you're being hunted by enemies from the war and even see bits and pieces of it.
Heh, reminded me of that joke; "What's the best and quickest way to get the answers you want? You don't eloquently ask the question, instead, you post the worst, most incorrect take you can think of on the matter, see how quickly someone would WANT to correct you."
Amnesia the Bunker I'm not sure I'd call survival horror more so than simply horror. The oldschool basis of survival horror you tend to deal with enemies, manage a limited inventory and deal with navigation and puzzles. Amnesia has some of those elements, but doesn't completely fill the full void of the genre specifically in how I'm sure Avalanche is trying to phrase it with the title and such.
IRL WWI was a real survival horror; >fixed cam (trenches) >limited resources >enemies you have to avoid due to said dwindling resources >puzzles because everything breaks everytime And so much more
@@danielgeronimo5538 Extreme environmental hazards Diseases with no-blue-herb challenge set as default Nightmare difficulty only Insomnia and sanity mechanic Trench foot mechanic Existential terror, morale set perma-low. Shellshock Thousands of bad endings, and even the good ending includes long term PTSD.
Haha I didn't notice till my 2nd playthrough, but I believe it's after the first trench battle your aim gets goofed and if you periodically slug back some grey goose it goes back to normal and made the aiming way more consistent lol game changer
I shaved mine immediately after it started to look meh. Its better in the end. Everybody is sweating their ass of. I just go and wash my head in the sink at work. You go for a sleep and you'll wake up looking the same. Only downside is that my head just can't get used to the cold.
Your story about getting the bad ending and you sharing the whole moment with your wife was really nice... Such a story (and that specific ending) would make me bawl my eyes too seeing as how it's just unfair for Andre to go through literal hell, lose his brother, get back from hell, just to get executed for accusations. That was gut-wrenching
I played it last week. Rats were not an issue on the steam version for me. The game was incredibly fun and a lot of the puzzles were super rewarding. However, while I love getting a lot of game for my buck, Conscript was simply too long. Every chapter is super long and spans an extremely wide area, which involves a ton of backtracking, which is the absolute worst in the fifth chapter, the town. It doesn't help that our protagonist is bascially asthmatic unless you upgrade his stamina, which requires meds that make your aim shivery. The game also tried to be all the Resident Evils really hard, with the shop system, the predictable "you leave location A, you are in a garden, you come back to location A with a different key" patterns, and so on. Its an amazing game and I'm looking forward to what the developer is cooking up next, but it doesn't dethrone Signalis.
You can find the old prototype that leaned far more into eldritch horror, so you can dig that up and download it. Also Call of Cthulhu The Wasted Land touched on that. That said the Somme was primarily a British sector, though the Grench did hold the far Eastern Flank of it.
My take, you should play Amnesia The Bunker. After that, it´s up to you if this tittle fits or not of "Only WW1 survival horror game". Spoilers, it´s not (of course Conscrpt is a great game that fits perfectly with the genre and a great example of dedication).
I saw an early demo of this which implied supernatural themes, or very least monsters showing up as there was a place filled with mustard gas that had monsters in it
Been waiting for your take on it. Really hooked me and the atmosphere was mental. God, we need more games like these, not everything has to be zombies.
regarding the aim shaking, if you drink alcohol it resets your aim steadiness. I believe you start shaking when you kill too many people and drinking alcohol will help you steady yourself. Also, the 'true' ending was also fantastic and very emotional as well.
Ending 4 is perfect. Extra bit of lore, closure with the main characters, and it's simultaneously hopeful and absolutely grim. The extra sequence is short but I love how your own perspective shifts as you realize who you're playing as, and what is about to happen to them
I think this sort of top-down style is what I've been looking for in a survival horror. It's easy enough to keep myself aware of everything surrounding me, while being possible to balance a more terrifyingly powerful enemy around that freedom of awareness and movement. Perfect for someone like me who gets scared easily and frustrated with clunky controls easier! Here's hoping more games come out in the vein of this and Signalis.
Off topic, but has anyone heard the black/doom metal band 1914? They deal with WWI themes and if you like heavy music with heavy feels and lots of historical references, you’ll be into it. Kanonenfieber is a similar band that’s a little more fast paced and melodic. Bonus points to Panzerfaust, more of a post-black metal band. Also really good. Anyway, this game is amazing, don’t miss it.
My first play I got final 3B and second play got 4, I really likes this game, the environment, the combat, the soundtrack, the backtracking the inventory few slots and the small HP and Stamina bar make you fear death because if you dies you went back to the last manual save(that is limited for who wants a real challenge). I really wants an DLC showing us the Pierre's side of that journey, how he got there, the difference of enemies and scenaries, how he got hurt and so, also I want a sequel following the events of Verdun to Somme!
@@AvalancheReviews I mean, you also do stuff like STALKER, Onimusha, modern horror games, RE movies, RPGs, action adventure games, etc but ok, fair enough.
All of these people commenting saying you’re “gatekeeping survival horror” have clearly never watched your videos before. I like how you have a very rigid definition for the genre. And I think it’s equally valid compared to people who call every horror game survival horror. But I’ve never seen you tell people what they can and can’t enjoy, or put other people down either. tldr: your videos rock and people are too quick to judge (though I guess that was the point of the video title)
Amnesia The Bunker is a true survival horror game though. It has intense resource management, Metroidvania style exploration, limited ammo, and punishment for death (No checkpoints). I have never understood the logic that a survival horror game needs tank controls and fixed camera angles. You do realise Resident Evil was supposed to be a first person game originally? But they scrapped it due to technical limitations. Jared is entitled to his opinion, but it's one I massively disagree with.
Thank you! I feel the same way. I don't discount non survival horror games, or urge anyone not to play them. I just have my own definition based on the series that coined the term.
Spoiler(?) about the shaking aim and the coward ending: The most enemies you kill, more inaccurate you aim becomes, it's like a fear meter, but it can be reduced temporaly by drinking alcohol. The Coward ending occurs when you have enough "coward points" for having infinite saves and checkpoints active your "coward points" already becomes high, a lot of saves, kill a lot of enemies with stealth and using the "hide" spots too often, but it could not happen jf you has the objectives for others endings triggered. I don't know if not helping the medic and gaston influences this ending too but keep eyes on it.
Kill enemies and incapacitated enemies, such as injured, insane, those who don't attack you unless you get too close to them, those who don't pose a risk and such* common enemies also make you aim bad with time, but way less
@@chrisdiokno5600 and no further replies from him 🤣. The gist of the channel's author point of view is the fact that apparently if the game has no tank controls, it's not a survival horror game to him, which is just laughable.
Sounds like an interesting game, though I do have to say that it is kind of sad to see German soldiers as robot like killers once again. Especially considering that exactly the same stories could be told from our POV, these were also young boys, Germany also lost so many in WWI and unlike WWII it's not like the Germans were especially the evil side, they were just the losers.
At least where I'm from in the US, the first world war was only very briefly covered until I got to college level history courses and even then it was treated like a skippable prequel to WW2. Which is a damned shame since the causes, actions, and resulting treaties are immensely important toward explaining the world we presently live in and how little we've learned. It's tragic that WW1 so thoroughly demonstrated the insanity of nationalism, war, and what pawns we are to those in charge, and then WW2 ended with the victors and later generations more aggressively flag waving and war mongering than ever before. Just imagine living in a country that's spent decades involved in middle eastern wars and your schools never once mention the Sykes-Picot agreement let alone the resulting chaos from it.
The funny thing is, I just thought of it 20min before posting the video because I genuinely thought it was. Now I'm keeping it because the reactions have been so fucking funny.
Given that this game takes place during WW1, it would've been more interesting to play as a regular German soldier. This is pretty much forbidden with WW2 games. Also, wish Conscript used classic RE fixed camera and tank controls instead of this isometric one.
Are trhere games where you play as Germans in WW 2 by the way? I mean as part of story missions. I have played one that is like a strategy that has a full story playing as Germans and beating the Allies and such but still. Are there more?
I can understand that, but I like that the genre is branching out. That being said, I would not say no to a game with this same setting, but pre rendered backgrounds. That kind of goes without saying for me though.
@Safersephiroth777, The only one from an FPS single player campaign I can recall is from BFV, The Last Tiger. Only good part of that mediocre campaign.
Hey man have you heard of the film Deathwatch? its an English film set in WW1 and for me is basically Silent Hill in trenches. Much better than the actual Silent Hill films.
I remember seeing this game and loving the atmosphere and visuals. going by your video Its also nice to see that zombies or man made creatures didn't pop up because survival horror. Instead it just focused on the actual horror of war. Its defiantly something I plan to pick up. great vid.
Title is SO wrong. Amnesia: The Bunker is set during WW1 and is also a horror game with resource management. So is a game called "Trenches" released last year...
Ok, so I have finally played Conscript and although I do still love Amnesia: The Bunker I have to say Conscript is better as it's more "Realistic". No supernatural or monsters, your just a Soilder in the thick of Verdun trying to find your brother. I fucking love it!
The shakey reticule can be delt with by drinking alcohol my only issue is that's very temporary and alcohol is rear. It would make more sense if it reset it entirely. It is assumption thay taking damage from enemies is what causes it.
The title being completely wrong is one thing, but it also brings up the constant issue you have of kind of gate keeping survival horror and constantly declaring that nothing is survival horror unless its 1:1 exactly like RE1/SH1. Even during the compilation videos, you constantly felt the need to say things like "well this isnt exactly survival horror" and its super pretentious. That aside, you are a big advocate for old school survival horror and you do a lot for the community. Thank you! Congrats on the weight loss.
Thank you, but I promise I'm not gatekeep anything. Anyone is free to enjoy what they think is survival horror, and to talk about those titles on their platform. I'm just doing that same thing on my platform. I'm not saying anyone shouldn't play the games I don't consider survival horror. Hell, I recommend 95% of them. I'm not keeping anyone or anything away from anything.
@AvalancheReviews Thank you for not taking offense to it and giving your thoughts. You are right, you do recommend the games that you mention aren't true SH, so maybe gatekeeping isn't the right word. While I do dislike how often it's mentioned or how it comes across, I think it's really rad that you specifically spotlight survival horror games like Conscript or crow. Incredible games. But I also think something like Amnesia the bunker is an incredible entry into SH as well. I think experiencing genres in different ways is a great thing. Again, thanks for the response. Having a civil back and forth like this is really cool.
I'll tell you what didn't help. The 15 hours I spent playing this game before even working on the video! I was more into playing it than i was making the video.
So many others have already made a statement for Amnesia: The Bunker. So instead i'll just say that if your looking for a solid WW1 Survival Horror game then I highly reccomend The Bunker. If your like me who saw the Amnesia name and went "Great, another walking simulator with jumpscares" then shut that thought down and just freaking play it, its great! I played the demo for Conscript and did enjoy it, I do plan on getting the full game when I can.
I've had it recommended a lot, and I really do need to get around to playing it. When it released I got DMs from like every content creator I know saying "Dude, how have you not played this yet!?!?!?".
You're in a vacuum sealed compressed metal tube with wings flying in the air thousands of feet from the ground with flammable jet fuel at the complete mercy of 2 pilots' ability to take off and land the plane safely. I think your fear of flying is quite rational to me 😆
I’m sure you’ve already noticed this maybe, but Andre’s aim seems to get shakier as you keep killing enemies. You can use alcohol to cure it. But if it’s temporary or permanent until you hit that kill threshold again I’m not sure of. It is a cool feature though, especially for a game like this.
@@AvalancheReviews Yeah, I just found out about it last night. However keep in mind it’s only temporary. The only solution to permanently mending this is killing as little enemies as possible. Or just becoming an alcoholic lol
@@AvalancheReviewsi feel like we can classify the bunker as "survival horror" like yeah no tank controls but I don't think survival horror requires that
saw this game on a pirating website i frequent, looked it up and found its a ww1 horror game, now its in my steam wishlist and i'm probably going to buy it next week
There was a German team who made a WW1 Horror Game called Ad Infinitum. Not being a smart ass, just wanted to give it a little more attention. It didn't get a lot of eyes on it.
@@AvalancheReviews tbh it'd be super cool if a dev team contacted (or contracted) you as a consulting partner for mechanics and stuff. Of course, idk if you'd be into that lol
Ignore these idiots. I know exactyl what you mean with this being the only survival horror game set in ww1. Anyone that follows your channel knows what you mean. Like always awesome video, thanks my man for another top recommendation
Was pleased to see this released on console as well. Just picked it up... will get to it... one day. Played the demo a while back after watching your RE clones vid. Really liked the game, but my only issue was when I had to step away from the demo for a few weeks, then when I came back to it, for the life of me I could not find my way around or figure out what I was meant to be doing - partly a me problem, but perhaps also a failure to telegraph current information to the player problem also. Did you come across this issue or anything like it at all?
Don't feel bad. I started Conscript and then had to finish a different video and in the time that passed, I had the same issue. Had to restart it just to make this video.
reminds me a little of valiant hearts, going between fun little minigames to trying to save the life of a child whos been gassed. its a great game you should try out.
I liked the game but also found it a pretty frustrating experience. Along with the rats, map and backtracking issues mentioned in the video, I felt that a lot of level design made for added frustration. So many damn impassable puddles/fences that ended up being an absolute chore to navigate given the amount of backtracking required. Impressive game especially from a solo developer, but one that at times wasn't really enjoyable to play unfortunately.
@@AvalancheReviewsI hope he has a setting that reverts the game to the older version. I always love a game that feels genuinely antagonistic. That’s not sarcasm btw.
Ever since I watched Bawk play this as a demo AND the full game, I find it incredibly hard to call it 'Survivor Horror.' For me at least, there is nothing traditionally horror about it. Themes, maybe. But there are no monsters, no eldritch horror, nothing that I would consider horror. I would put this game in the same category of This War of Mine, a War-themed survival game. That's it. It just aint horror to me.
I feel like that's a really limited view of horror. There are plenty of horror films about a normal human, trying to kill or harm another human with no scifi or supernatural themes. i think games can do the same thing.
Quite a peculiar flame war was waged in the comments it seems. Alright I'll dig into the trenches myself, and ask a question. When talking about survival horror, Jared you absolute handsome brute of a man, do you solely refer to survival horrors of the olden days? I.e the formula that more or less revolves around the original SH/RE series? For ex. Amnesia :The Bunker, Alien: Isolation, Penumbra series, Cry of fear, Dead Space. Will these be considered as "Survival horror" in your book? If not then, yeah I kinda see why you'd call it the only WW1 Surv. Horror game.
I tend to keep the original RE games as a standard, since they coined the term. Silent Hill is described by its creator as a psychological horror game. Which is meant to be a spinoff of the genre. So I usually stick to that title when describing games like SH. To be fair, all the games you listed are awesome horror games though. I just don't think they're survival horror.
@@AvalancheReviews A respectable answer my friend. I do personally think the genre can be expanded a bit to include some other games that are not directly RE related, but that's just details now. Thank you for your answer, chief.
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I don't consider that game survival horror. Although it does share a lot of mechanics with the genre. I feel like Super Metroid is closer to survival horror than The Bunker is.
Ok, so everyone has spent the day informing me of other horror games set in WW1. That being said, I'm doubling down and changing to title to an even more solid stance on the issue.
LOL,seriously doe you shhould try amnesia
Doesn't Clive Barket's Undying also count as a WW1 survival horror?
It takes place during WW1, your character comes home from the war, and part of the story is you're being hunted by enemies from the war and even see bits and pieces of it.
Heh, reminded me of that joke; "What's the best and quickest way to get the answers you want? You don't eloquently ask the question, instead, you post the worst, most incorrect take you can think of on the matter, see how quickly someone would WANT to correct you."
Gonna send the robot raptors from 1917 Der UnbeKannte Krieg after you (the WWI survival horror with raptors)
I'm more upset that you haven't played Amnesia the Bunker yet, it's so damn good, you are missing out.
Amnesia the Bunker: "Am I joke to you?"
Ad Infinitum in the corner: -_-
Beat me to it.
Amnesia the Bunker I'm not sure I'd call survival horror more so than simply horror. The oldschool basis of survival horror you tend to deal with enemies, manage a limited inventory and deal with navigation and puzzles. Amnesia has some of those elements, but doesn't completely fill the full void of the genre specifically in how I'm sure Avalanche is trying to phrase it with the title and such.
I forgot that game was set then. So when you think about it, I was being honest when I wrote the title. HA!
Yes amnesia the bunker
Yes you are xD
Sadly, (or maybe fortunately) no WWI-themed survival horror can hold a candle to the horror of IRL WWI.
Thanks Captain Obvious
@pogatronic You're welcome. Always glad to help out.
IRL WWI was a real survival horror;
>fixed cam (trenches)
>limited resources
>enemies you have to avoid due to said dwindling resources
>puzzles because everything breaks everytime
And so much more
@@danielgeronimo5538
Extreme environmental hazards
Diseases with no-blue-herb challenge set as default
Nightmare difficulty only
Insomnia and sanity mechanic
Trench foot mechanic
Existential terror, morale set perma-low.
Shellshock
Thousands of bad endings, and even the good ending includes long term PTSD.
You can use alcohol to calm your nerves when aiming just like real life.
No way!!! How did i mess that???!?!?!? HA!
Haha I didn't notice till my 2nd playthrough, but I believe it's after the first trench battle your aim gets goofed and if you periodically slug back some grey goose it goes back to normal and made the aiming way more consistent lol game changer
Just goes to show that alcohol,caffeine and nicotine are God’s choice drugs. Anything else is a gimmick
1916 - Der unbekannte Krieg
a browser game where you run through ww1 trenches avoiding a dinosaur
God ,I feel old ,I remember that game.
@@luism.4783 God your right, I last saw that game when I was like 6 or something.
I was trying to remember this game. Thank you!
"Your hair looks great today"
Me = crying in the mirror because I'm 34 and losing my hair
If it makes you feel better, I already lost all mine.
Same here. And I actually don't mine.
I shaved mine immediately after it started to look meh.
Its better in the end.
Everybody is sweating their ass of. I just go and wash my head in the sink at work. You go for a sleep and you'll wake up looking the same.
Only downside is that my head just can't get used to the cold.
@@AvalancheReviewsnot all of us can be tall & handsome Avalanche so don’t be sugar coating 🤣
Your story about getting the bad ending and you sharing the whole moment with your wife was really nice...
Such a story (and that specific ending) would make me bawl my eyes too seeing as how it's just unfair for Andre to go through literal hell, lose his brother, get back from hell, just to get executed for accusations. That was gut-wrenching
Dude, it was rough!!!
I played it last week. Rats were not an issue on the steam version for me. The game was incredibly fun and a lot of the puzzles were super rewarding. However, while I love getting a lot of game for my buck, Conscript was simply too long. Every chapter is super long and spans an extremely wide area, which involves a ton of backtracking, which is the absolute worst in the fifth chapter, the town. It doesn't help that our protagonist is bascially asthmatic unless you upgrade his stamina, which requires meds that make your aim shivery.
The game also tried to be all the Resident Evils really hard, with the shop system, the predictable "you leave location A, you are in a garden, you come back to location A with a different key" patterns, and so on.
Its an amazing game and I'm looking forward to what the developer is cooking up next, but it doesn't dethrone Signalis.
Sequel with the Frogs and Krauts teaming up after artillery bombarding a sleeping eldritch abomination in the Battle of the Somme, please.
I second this plea
You can find the old prototype that leaned far more into eldritch horror, so you can dig that up and download it. Also Call of Cthulhu The Wasted Land touched on that.
That said the Somme was primarily a British sector, though the Grench did hold the far Eastern Flank of it.
For me first a DLC to play as Pierre journey through that, then a sequel that occurred in Somme
My take, you should play Amnesia The Bunker. After that, it´s up to you if this tittle fits or not of "Only WW1 survival horror game".
Spoilers, it´s not (of course Conscrpt is a great game that fits perfectly with the genre and a great example of dedication).
Ad infinitum be like,I'm standing right here
Very underrated game.
I saw an early demo of this which implied supernatural themes, or very least monsters showing up as there was a place filled with mustard gas that had monsters in it
Yep, that was the initial plan. I think that demo was on itch.io maybe?
Been waiting for your take on it.
Really hooked me and the atmosphere was mental. God, we need more games like these, not everything has to be zombies.
It blows me away that the game has ZERO super natural elements. Like, I can't think of any other horror game that can do that.
The content I’ve been waiting for.
Listen, I'm just glad to read a comment that isn't informing me of an obscure browser based WW1 horror game from the early 2000's.
A new Avalanche video?! Excellent!! SPLENDID EVEN!!!
Am I the only one who was thinking of the Sabaton song Fields of Verdun throughout this video?
Oh hell yeah, I've been waiting and praying you'd do this one.
YES! I was hoping you'd make a video on this game, it is so goddamn fun!! and Chapter 4 will always send me with adrenaline. New fav Survival horror
With the new patch that's out, it's my new favorite modern survival horror game as well.
This game looks amazing and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Thank you for covering it 🙏😃
My pleasure!!
regarding the aim shaking, if you drink alcohol it resets your aim steadiness. I believe you start shaking when you kill too many people and drinking alcohol will help you steady yourself. Also, the 'true' ending was also fantastic and very emotional as well.
Ending 4 is perfect. Extra bit of lore, closure with the main characters, and it's simultaneously hopeful and absolutely grim. The extra sequence is short but I love how your own perspective shifts as you realize who you're playing as, and what is about to happen to them
I think this sort of top-down style is what I've been looking for in a survival horror. It's easy enough to keep myself aware of everything surrounding me, while being possible to balance a more terrifyingly powerful enemy around that freedom of awareness and movement. Perfect for someone like me who gets scared easily and frustrated with clunky controls easier! Here's hoping more games come out in the vein of this and Signalis.
We would be very lucky to get a few more games as good as this and Signalis.
Off topic, but has anyone heard the black/doom metal band 1914?
They deal with WWI themes and if you like heavy music with heavy feels and lots of historical references, you’ll be into it.
Kanonenfieber is a similar band that’s a little more fast paced and melodic.
Bonus points to Panzerfaust, more of a post-black metal band. Also really good.
Anyway, this game is amazing, don’t miss it.
My first play I got final 3B and second play got 4, I really likes this game, the environment, the combat, the soundtrack, the backtracking the inventory few slots and the small HP and Stamina bar make you fear death because if you dies you went back to the last manual save(that is limited for who wants a real challenge).
I really wants an DLC showing us the Pierre's side of that journey, how he got there, the difference of enemies and scenaries, how he got hurt and so, also I want a sequel following the events of Verdun to Somme!
Did you just take credit for the reemergence of indie retro-horror games?
No, I took credit for the people watching my videos knowing about it. Because that's all I've been covering for about 2 years.
@@AvalancheReviews I mean, you also do stuff like STALKER, Onimusha, modern horror games, RE movies, RPGs, action adventure games, etc but ok, fair enough.
All of these people commenting saying you’re “gatekeeping survival horror” have clearly never watched your videos before. I like how you have a very rigid definition for the genre. And I think it’s equally valid compared to people who call every horror game survival horror. But I’ve never seen you tell people what they can and can’t enjoy, or put other people down either.
tldr: your videos rock and people are too quick to judge (though I guess that was the point of the video title)
Amnesia The Bunker is a true survival horror game though. It has intense resource management, Metroidvania style exploration, limited ammo, and punishment for death (No checkpoints). I have never understood the logic that a survival horror game needs tank controls and fixed camera angles. You do realise Resident Evil was supposed to be a first person game originally? But they scrapped it due to technical limitations. Jared is entitled to his opinion, but it's one I massively disagree with.
Thank you! I feel the same way. I don't discount non survival horror games, or urge anyone not to play them. I just have my own definition based on the series that coined the term.
Damn man, you got really deep on this video with the subject of war and the value of human life, props.
Dude, it had me feeling deep. I really like it when a game does that.
Finally, more fuel to help me through work
That's what I'm here for.
Spoiler(?) about the shaking aim and the coward ending:
The most enemies you kill, more inaccurate you aim becomes, it's like a fear meter, but it can be reduced temporaly by drinking alcohol.
The Coward ending occurs when you have enough "coward points" for having infinite saves and checkpoints active your "coward points" already becomes high, a lot of saves, kill a lot of enemies with stealth and using the "hide" spots too often, but it could not happen jf you has the objectives for others endings triggered. I don't know if not helping the medic and gaston influences this ending too but keep eyes on it.
Kill enemies and incapacitated enemies, such as injured, insane, those who don't attack you unless you get too close to them, those who don't pose a risk and such* common enemies also make you aim bad with time, but way less
There's a fair few other WW1 survival horrors. But yeah this one was solid
Name 5!
@@AvalancheReviews 1916. Amnesia The Bunker, Ad Infinitum, NecroVision, and technically Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem
@@chrisdiokno5600 and no further replies from him 🤣.
The gist of the channel's author point of view is the fact that apparently if the game has no tank controls, it's not a survival horror game to him, which is just laughable.
It's not that deep. It's just his opinion and he probably didn't respond because he was busy@@budyll1
Sounds like an interesting game, though I do have to say that it is kind of sad to see German soldiers as robot like killers once again.
Especially considering that exactly the same stories could be told from our POV, these were also young boys, Germany also lost so many in WWI and unlike WWII it's not like the Germans were especially the evil side, they were just the losers.
At least where I'm from in the US, the first world war was only very briefly covered until I got to college level history courses and even then it was treated like a skippable prequel to WW2. Which is a damned shame since the causes, actions, and resulting treaties are immensely important toward explaining the world we presently live in and how little we've learned. It's tragic that WW1 so thoroughly demonstrated the insanity of nationalism, war, and what pawns we are to those in charge, and then WW2 ended with the victors and later generations more aggressively flag waving and war mongering than ever before. Just imagine living in a country that's spent decades involved in middle eastern wars and your schools never once mention the Sykes-Picot agreement let alone the resulting chaos from it.
Great video, still waiting for the day you do Fear 3
I swear, one of these days I'll get around to finishing the Fear and Remedy retrospectives.
I can't wait to hear what you have to say about STALKER's new Deep Dive.
Amniesa the bunker
Sorry lad
This title is gonna be great for "engagement" :)
The funny thing is, I just thought of it 20min before posting the video because I genuinely thought it was. Now I'm keeping it because the reactions have been so fucking funny.
Given that this game takes place during WW1, it would've been more interesting to play as a regular German soldier. This is pretty much forbidden with WW2 games.
Also, wish Conscript used classic RE fixed camera and tank controls instead of this isometric one.
Are trhere games where you play as Germans in WW 2 by the way? I mean as part of story missions. I have played one that is like a strategy that has a full story playing as Germans and beating the Allies and such but still. Are there more?
I think maybe it would be too hard with camera angles, because many enemies have guns.
I can understand that, but I like that the genre is branching out. That being said, I would not say no to a game with this same setting, but pre rendered backgrounds. That kind of goes without saying for me though.
@@AvalancheReviews Yup I agree!
@Safersephiroth777, The only one from an FPS single player campaign I can recall is from BFV, The Last Tiger. Only good part of that mediocre campaign.
Hey man have you heard of the film Deathwatch? its an English film set in WW1 and for me is basically Silent Hill in trenches. Much better than the actual Silent Hill films.
I remember seeing this game and loving the atmosphere and visuals. going by your video Its also nice to see that zombies or man made creatures didn't pop up because survival horror. Instead it just focused on the actual horror of war. Its defiantly something I plan to pick up. great vid.
Thanks man! Trust me, you wont regret trying it out.
Title is SO wrong.
Amnesia: The Bunker is set during WW1 and is also a horror game with resource management.
So is a game called "Trenches" released last year...
And that indie game with the Raptor in the trenches.
Ad Infinitum as well
Bet you can't name 3 more
@@AvalancheReviews sarcasm time I see?
The title is wrong, TH-cam is a HUGE platform, so don't get salty when someone points out a mistake ;P.
@@budyll1 It was a joke..
I played the demo a few months ago, it's amazing. Totally recommend it and I can't wait for the full version to release
This game kinda reminded me of Darkwood but not as intense. Everyone needs to play Darkwood….and this game!
I could not agree with this comment any more if I tried.
Amnesia The Bunker. Not intending to be an echo chamber. Love your vids!
I forgot about that game, but I'm considering leaving the title the way it is just to farm more comments. HA!
@@AvalancheReviewsI can respect that but also your entire brand image is built on being super knowledgeable about games, specifically survival horror
@@AvalancheReviews heh respect lol. We'll forget about it in an hour anyways.
A good review, however this game's WW1 setting is predated by (the far superior imo) Amnesia: The Bunker.
That depends on what you consider survival horror I think.
I knew this video was coming, it is everything an Avalanche Reviewer could want :D
If it's new survival horror, you can bet I'm going to be talking about one way or another.
Loving it brother. Keep it up!(I'm not even 15 seconds in)
Wait till you get to 30 seconds. It gets way better. HA! Thanks dawg
Thanks for the vid
I can hardly believe how many games are actually meeting Jared's standards to be called "survival horror" lately.
There's like 3 of em, and even those ones are a little iffy.
Ok, so I have finally played Conscript and although I do still love Amnesia: The Bunker I have to say Conscript is better as it's more "Realistic".
No supernatural or monsters, your just a Soilder in the thick of Verdun trying to find your brother. I fucking love it!
The shakey reticule can be delt with by drinking alcohol my only issue is that's very temporary and alcohol is rear. It would make more sense if it reset it entirely. It is assumption thay taking damage from enemies is what causes it.
The title being completely wrong is one thing, but it also brings up the constant issue you have of kind of gate keeping survival horror and constantly declaring that nothing is survival horror unless its 1:1 exactly like RE1/SH1. Even during the compilation videos, you constantly felt the need to say things like "well this isnt exactly survival horror" and its super pretentious.
That aside, you are a big advocate for old school survival horror and you do a lot for the community. Thank you! Congrats on the weight loss.
Gatekeeping is based
Thank you, but I promise I'm not gatekeep anything. Anyone is free to enjoy what they think is survival horror, and to talk about those titles on their platform. I'm just doing that same thing on my platform. I'm not saying anyone shouldn't play the games I don't consider survival horror. Hell, I recommend 95% of them. I'm not keeping anyone or anything away from anything.
@AvalancheReviews Thank you for not taking offense to it and giving your thoughts. You are right, you do recommend the games that you mention aren't true SH, so maybe gatekeeping isn't the right word. While I do dislike how often it's mentioned or how it comes across, I think it's really rad that you specifically spotlight survival horror games like Conscript or crow. Incredible games. But I also think something like Amnesia the bunker is an incredible entry into SH as well. I think experiencing genres in different ways is a great thing.
Again, thanks for the response. Having a civil back and forth like this is really cool.
@@koiofokinawa Words have meaning, get over it redditor. There's a reason "survival" is in the title and it's not just called "horror".
Only thing I didn't like was how rats don't attack the Germans and how the Germans can see perfectly in the dark with no light source...
If Jared likes this comment then its DOUBLE confirmed to be the only WWI survival horror game 👁👄👁
Oh gawd Team 17 props to the guy who made it but they are another problem.
Daaaamn, man. This video came out pretty fast. 😂😂😂
Glad you're in a comfy creative space, but I do guess playing the demo helped lol
I'll tell you what didn't help. The 15 hours I spent playing this game before even working on the video! I was more into playing it than i was making the video.
I really have soft spot for games like this, like Tunguska. Pixelated games.
So many others have already made a statement for Amnesia: The Bunker.
So instead i'll just say that if your looking for a solid WW1 Survival Horror game then I highly reccomend The Bunker.
If your like me who saw the Amnesia name and went "Great, another walking simulator with jumpscares" then shut that thought down and just freaking play it, its great!
I played the demo for Conscript and did enjoy it, I do plan on getting the full game when I can.
I've had it recommended a lot, and I really do need to get around to playing it. When it released I got DMs from like every content creator I know saying "Dude, how have you not played this yet!?!?!?".
You're in a vacuum sealed compressed metal tube with wings flying in the air thousands of feet from the ground with flammable jet fuel at the complete mercy of 2 pilots' ability to take off and land the plane safely.
I think your fear of flying is quite rational to me 😆
I’m sure you’ve already noticed this maybe, but Andre’s aim seems to get shakier as you keep killing enemies.
You can use alcohol to cure it. But if it’s temporary or permanent until you hit that kill threshold again I’m not sure of. It is a cool feature though, especially for a game like this.
It's so wild that I never even caught on to that mechanic despite playing the game for so long.
@@AvalancheReviews Yeah, I just found out about it last night. However keep in mind it’s only temporary.
The only solution to permanently mending this is killing as little enemies as possible. Or just becoming an alcoholic lol
Can't wait to play this for myself
I may be a little late, but the ending you got was because you didn't fight off all the enemies in certain sections.
Hey mister video man, I think you might have forgot some games according to the comments. How dare you forget *insert game name here* Shame on you
I fucked up by not responding to each one with a quick 🤓
The cross hair shaking is pain. Get hurt and heal but he still feels the pain of injury. Items like alcohol fix the shaking.
It's so wild that I never even tried drinking it. i only used it for molotovs. I played a straight edge run. HA!
Not to be that guy but that title is just entirely not true brother.
Depends on your definition of survival horror.
@@AvalancheReviewsamnesia the bunker is as "survival horror" as survival horror gets chief
@@AvalancheReviewsi feel like we can classify the bunker as "survival horror" like yeah no tank controls but I don't think survival horror requires that
Im not your buddy, guy
"The First and Only WW1 Survival Horror Game"
Amnesia The Bunker: Am I a joke to you?
saw this game on a pirating website i frequent, looked it up and found its a ww1 horror game, now its in my steam wishlist and i'm probably going to buy it next week
Very good call
Scratch the "survival" and you get Necrovision with expansion... probably the closest game to Deathwatch (2002) movie.
Janky, but enjoyable.
I just looked that movie up and it sounds pretty damn cool!
my favourite ww1 survival horror game is listening to jared define survival horror
Lad have you never heard of Amnesia The Bunker???
There was a German team who made a WW1 Horror Game called Ad Infinitum. Not being a smart ass, just wanted to give it a little more attention. It didn't get a lot of eyes on it.
Trust me, the comments have been lighting my ass up over that game. HA!
If you played manhunt you have played a survival horror game with no supernatural elements in it.
I wouldn't call Manhunt survival horror. More of a stealth game, but that's actually a great example. I didn't even consider it.
When are you gonna make your own survival horror game Avalanche!? Great content as always!
I think making videos about these games is my creative limit. HA!
@@AvalancheReviews tbh it'd be super cool if a dev team contacted (or contracted) you as a consulting partner for mechanics and stuff. Of course, idk if you'd be into that lol
Lol what a click bait lie of a title.
People have been telling me about this and it's wild I put so much time into this game and never figured that out. HA!
Looking at this game reminds me of the first time I saw Sega Genesis Pitfall, or gameboy color Tomb Raider. The animation just rules.
It's wild how games like that compressed all those frames onto such a small cart size.
@@AvalancheReviews yeah man! I was thinking about that when I saw the new perfect dark trailer! Perfect Dark was like 33 megabytes!
No WWII need da lovin' too!!! 😢
That's what sequels are for! Conscript 2: The Germans Return
Conscript 2: Sauerkraut Boogaloo
I remember this ww1 horror game from like 12 years ago, black and white FPS with trenches full of robotic velociraptors. Weird.
Trust me, I've been getting a earful of that game.
@@AvalancheReviews oh wow I'm surprised anyone else remembers it, I gave that memory a 50/50 chance of being a fever dream lol
Ignore these idiots. I know exactyl what you mean with this being the only survival horror game set in ww1. Anyone that follows your channel knows what you mean.
Like always awesome video, thanks my man for another top recommendation
Was pleased to see this released on console as well. Just picked it up... will get to it... one day.
Played the demo a while back after watching your RE clones vid. Really liked the game, but my only issue was when I had to step away from the demo for a few weeks, then when I came back to it, for the life of me I could not find my way around or figure out what I was meant to be doing - partly a me problem, but perhaps also a failure to telegraph current information to the player problem also.
Did you come across this issue or anything like it at all?
Don't feel bad. I started Conscript and then had to finish a different video and in the time that passed, I had the same issue. Had to restart it just to make this video.
Feel gud goty rit here!!
Wooooo!!!
I feel like someone has replaced you and is leaving poorly worded comments in your place.
reminds me a little of valiant hearts, going between fun little minigames to trying to save the life of a child whos been gassed. its a great game you should try out.
Me and the wife really enjoyed Valiant Hearts. That game had such a cool soundtrack.
Conscript is an exhausting game (complimentary)
That should have been my video title. HA!
@@AvalancheReviews it's not too late to change it
This was meant for avalanche
Great review as usual :)
Thank you!
I remember a demo from a WW1 trench horror game from like almost 10 years ago. I don't know what happened to it.
Oh, it became Ad Infinitum and it looks like one of those games you can't defend yourself. I hate most of those. Shame.
Guy going through trenches during storm, tall skinny monster with long claws appears around corner during thunderstrike? Named Ad Infinitum?
@@Irishbroadsword Yeah, I found out it was Ad Infinitum. It didn't have a name back then iirc.
Do Ad Infinitum next!!!
I might have missed this, but did you try the VR versions of Resi?
I still haven't. Really want to though.
Play Burnhouse lane,is incredible experience
It’s a decent game is the best tile
I´m bald, god dammit!!!
37:00 come now jared no skill issues get the grid paper and draw your own maps like back in the day bro 😂
I liked the game but also found it a pretty frustrating experience. Along with the rats, map and backtracking issues mentioned in the video, I felt that a lot of level design made for added frustration. So many damn impassable puddles/fences that ended up being an absolute chore to navigate given the amount of backtracking required. Impressive game especially from a solo developer, but one that at times wasn't really enjoyable to play unfortunately.
With a patch that went live today, he's cut a lot of the midgame backtracking out. He seems to be listening to people, which is cool as hell.
@@AvalancheReviewsI hope he has a setting that reverts the game to the older version. I always love a game that feels genuinely antagonistic. That’s not sarcasm btw.
I'm curious what the final tally of comments about the title will be.
I would imagine the dislikes will be....a little more than average. HA!
Necrovision & Necrovision 2 are far better games than Conscript ;).
Wait a minute.....there's no Necrovision 2!
You havent played either of those 3 games and it shows tbh
@@AvalancheReviews but of course there is ;)!
Necrovision: Lost Company.
Ever since I watched Bawk play this as a demo AND the full game, I find it incredibly hard to call it 'Survivor Horror.'
For me at least, there is nothing traditionally horror about it. Themes, maybe. But there are no monsters, no eldritch horror, nothing that I would consider horror. I would put this game in the same category of This War of Mine, a War-themed survival game. That's it. It just aint horror to me.
I feel like that's a really limited view of horror. There are plenty of horror films about a normal human, trying to kill or harm another human with no scifi or supernatural themes. i think games can do the same thing.
DAY 2 OF ASKING JARED TO GET OILED UP AND TOSS IT WAY BACK ON STREAM
I can't last more than 10, maybe 20 days. Eventually I'll HAVE to say yes.
Quite a peculiar flame war was waged in the comments it seems. Alright I'll dig into the trenches myself, and ask a question.
When talking about survival horror, Jared you absolute handsome brute of a man, do you solely refer to survival horrors of the olden days? I.e the formula that more or less revolves around the original SH/RE series?
For ex. Amnesia :The Bunker, Alien: Isolation, Penumbra series, Cry of fear, Dead Space. Will these be considered as "Survival horror" in your book?
If not then, yeah I kinda see why you'd call it the only WW1 Surv. Horror game.
I tend to keep the original RE games as a standard, since they coined the term. Silent Hill is described by its creator as a psychological horror game. Which is meant to be a spinoff of the genre. So I usually stick to that title when describing games like SH. To be fair, all the games you listed are awesome horror games though. I just don't think they're survival horror.
@@AvalancheReviews A respectable answer my friend.
I do personally think the genre can be expanded a bit to include some other games that are not directly RE related, but that's just details now.
Thank you for your answer, chief.
Thanks for swinging by, guys! Here's a link to Conscript's Steam page and some of my support platforms, if you think I've earned it.
[Conscript] - store.steampowered.com/app/1286990/CONSCRIPT/
[Membership] - th-cam.com/channels/BRdH7MGiy3EmNG1GndsdIg.htmljoin
[Patreon] - patreon.com/AvalancheReviews
Whys this comment posted 43 mins ago but the video was dropped less than a minute ago?
Can you do Greggory Horror Show: Soul Collector (PS2) or maybe the silly Glass Rose? More unknown games pretty please 🙏
@@AveChristusRex33ADPatreons get early access and obviously the uploader can do things before the public release.
the coolest game.
Agreed
Amnesia the bunker???
I don't consider that game survival horror. Although it does share a lot of mechanics with the genre. I feel like Super Metroid is closer to survival horror than The Bunker is.
If you did research, you should be able to say some of the French names correctly
So do amnesia TB next then.
No!......Ok, maybe.
@@AvalancheReviews it's a pretty dope game ngl.
Oooo! :B
Right back at ya with a double ooooo!