Currently, a free survival game on Steam is leaving the genre competition behind. The astonishing thing is that it is achieving this success despite relatively modest graphics. MeinMMO shows you which game it is.
What game is it? Unturned is a free survival game on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The title draws on classic gameplay elements from survival games. This includes, among other things, gathering food and building a base.
In Unturned, you fight against zombies, but you are not alone. The survival game is playable cooperatively and even features online PvP.
What makes Unturned special? Unturned generally doesn’t sound like anything special at first, as we already know the principle from games like DayZ and Rust. However, the title released in 2017 already stands out at first glance: it does not have the slightest ambition to look graphically good.
Unturned feels as if someone tried to create a mix of DayZ and Minecraft. This is also noted by Steam user KidKinzu, who writes in his Steam review: ‘Minecraft? We have it! DayZ? We have it! Let’s throw both together and make it free to play (via Steam)!’
If you want to get an impression of the game and its appearance, we have embedded the Unturned release trailer here:
A real success on Steam
How popular is Unturned? The survival game is quite well received, particularly on Steam. Since its release in 2017, the title has gathered over 490,000 ratings. Even more impressive is that 91% of those are positive.
However, Unturned has not only built solid numbers over the past years but can currently also impress. In the past 30 days, Unturned has averaged 36,000 concurrently active players. The peak during this period was even 92,850. The survival title leaves even popular genre competitors behind:
- ARK: Survival Evolved: Peak of the last 30 days – 77,774 players (via SteamCharts)
- DayZ: Peak of the last 30 days – 52,106 (via SteamCharts)
- 7 Days to Die: Peak of the last 30 days – 35,613 (via SteamCharts)
- Valheim: Peak of the last 30 days – 24,612 (via SteamCharts)
- No Man’s Sky: Peak of the last 30 days – 17,675 (via SteamCharts)
The only survival game that can currently (as of October 15, 2022, 4:00 PM) show more players than Unturned on Steam is Rust. While Unturned has 61,023 players, Rust has 92,647 players (via Steamcharts). The peak value of the survival giant in the past 30 days was even 118,874 players.
What do you think about Unturned? Have you played the unusual title or are you planning to? Feel free to let us know here on MeinMMO in the comments!
Are you still looking for a new survival adventure to play? Then check out our list of the 25 best survival games 2022 for PlayStation, PC, and Xbox.
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