Survival Games Get Past Zombies and Crafting

Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so...peaceful?

I'm someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original (despite the glut of titles being made in this post-Minecraft world) to me, while fighting the elements instead of a procession of aliens/monsters/Russians sounds like a challenge more suited to brains than reflexes.

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