Survive Together

Survive Together is a 2D world simulator where you and other players face the perils of nature and work together to build a thriving settlement. Players and NPCs develop a homeland from a stone campfire into large cities, while gathering resources, crafting items and defending against threats.

Build and survive

Interact with items in the world to craft tools, buildings, weapons, clothing and other necessities. Villagers can farm by using soil, seeds and water to regrow most naturally growing plants. At night, villages are more likely to come under attack as visibility decreases; staying near fires helps you avoid ambushes.

Threats include hungry rats seeking food, invaders from foreign villages, roaming monsters and other dangers. Characters can die from starvation, dehydration, combat or old age. After death, you enter the spirit realm as a ghost before you can be reborn.

Villagers and generations

Villages may include NPCs who act much like players: they build up their settlements, converse and form relationships. Except for characters present at the start of a new game, characters are born into the world through another villager, beginning in the womb. They grow from babies into children and adults, then age and die.

Villager traits, such as laziness and bravery, affect behavior, relationships and abilities. Newborns inherit most of their traits from their maker, including hair, eye and skin color as well as traits such as bravery and laziness. Villagers remember their interactions, shaping relationships that can develop into alliances, rivalries and courtships. Address an NPC by name to talk with them; they can answer questions such as where the town is or take orders such as getting food.

Town professions

Villagers fill specialized roles that help a settlement progress and survive. Their duties include:

• Leader: assign professions, make diplomatic decisions about war and peace, lead expeditions, exile problematic villagers and guide the town's development.
• Carpenter: cut down trees, construct buildings and craft furniture.
• Blacksmith: dig stone and ore quarries, mine, forge metal from ore, make coal from wood and craft metal tools and objects.
• Farmer: create farm plots, plant and water seeds, and harvest crops.
• Mason: make stone bricks, lay roads and craft stone tools and materials.
• Hunter: create animal snares, skin animals and capture wild livestock.
• Tailor: make threads, weavings, clothing and bags.
• Barkeep: brew alcohol, cook food and craft consumables such as cigars.
• Priest: craft charm necklaces, build shrines and gain favor from the gods for the town.
• Shepherd: milk goats and cows, shear sheep and care for animals.

You can leave your current village and establish your own, including one that rivals another settlement. Professions also include roles such as stone mason, alongside leader, blacksmith, carpenter, priest, barkeep, tailor, hunter and farmer.

Play together

Host a server or join a friend through the server browser or by direct IP. You can also connect the game to your Twitch channel, allowing viewers to interact through chat commands; for example, !play spawns a viewer in a villager's womb.

Guides and progress

The game includes detailed guides to its items and systems. Hover over an item and press G to open its guide, or press H for a guide to an item in hand; a general help menu is available through the question-mark icon. You can save and load multiple game states, and earn Steam achievements by completing challenges such as surviving for 100 days.