Survival of 1

You wake in an endless forest with two things: an axe and a lighter.

Survival of 1 is a first-person wilderness survival game about the first night alone. Wander a hand-grown temperate forest of tall oaks, pale birches and whorled pines — rolling hills, drifting fog, birdsong by day and crickets by night. Every tree can be felled, every bush cut, every mushroom picked. Nothing here is decoration.

Gather. Build. Burn. Swing your axe into trunks until they crack, topple and scatter firewood. Cut bushes for sticks and fiber, pick berries and mushrooms to keep your hunger at bay. Open the build menu and raise free-sized wood walls, floors and thatch roofs — scroll to make each piece as large or small as you like — then stack a stone campfire, feed it wood, and strike your lighter. The flame keeps exhaustion at bay... and the cold out.

The night is the enemy. When the sun drops, the forest turns deep blue and quiet, and the cold starts eating your health unless you stand within reach of a live fire. Manage three vitals — health, hunger and energy — through as many day cycles as you can. How many mornings will you live to see?