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Survivalist: Invisible Strain is an open-world colony-building sim set during a zombie apocalypse. You survive among named characters with distinct personalities and relationships, recruit followers, build a settlement and fight zombies, other survivors and wildlife. The game combines third-person action with real-time strategy, and supports online co-op for up to four players.

Characters and relationships

Living characters remember your actions, and their memories shape their moods and opinions of you. They lead their own lives, gossiping, eating, sleeping, keeping warm, working and fighting. Some offer quests, which you can choose whether or how to complete. Negotiation, friendship, violence, stealth and trickery can all help you meet your objectives.

You can recruit survivors by earning their liking, respect or fear. Followers need beds, a steady food supply, warmth from a fire and walls to keep enemies out. You manage their morale and relationships: they may become depressed or fight, make up, spend time with you or flirt with you.

Build a settlement

Gather resources by chopping trees, mining rocks and searching abandoned towns across the map. Hunt deer, raise chickens, grow crops, trap animals and enemies, or resort to more desperate ways to find food. You can assign community members jobs such as Farmer, Chef and Arrow Crafter, then build a defended, self-sufficient settlement that can produce its own bullets.

Choose your character

At the start of a game, you customize your character’s appearance, clothing, equipment, skills and personality. Personality traits affect which dialogue options are available.

Combat and survival

You can directly control each character in a third-person view or switch to an overhead view to give orders. Aim for enemies’ legs to slow them or their heads to deal massive damage. Melee combat lets you dodge and block, as can your enemies. Characters have different skill sets and can improve their Archery, Firearms or Hand to Hand abilities as they level up. Eating better food improves Constitution, increasing your chances of surviving a fight you lose.

Sneak up on enemies to assassinate them, or knock them out and take their belongings. Bottles and chunks of meat can distract zombies, while camouflaged clothing boosts Stealth. Animals and zombies have a keen sense of smell, so wind direction matters. You can send your community to attack together or make one character act as a lone assassin. Fight with melee weapons, bows and arrows, guns and explosives, use infected weapons, or repair vehicles and run enemies over.

The Invisible Strain

A mysterious new strain of the zombie virus poses a constant danger. Infected people can appear normal as they join your group and spread the virus, then turn on you.

Game modes

Story Mode introduces the world and mechanics through a handcrafted story. You arrive in Moose Valley seeking safety, but everything is falling apart as you try to hold a settlement together. It is a sequel to Survivalist, but you do not need to have played that game to follow the story.

Sandbox Mode takes place in a randomly generated world, with a loose story and quests that vary between playthroughs. Find a home and build a community in the post-apocalyptic wilderness. Both modes, as well as the other listed modes, support online co-op with up to three friends, for a maximum of four players.

Mods

Steam Workshop supports an active modding scene, with a large number of gameplay mods and some all-new stories.