The Forever Winter Interview – New Take On Survival Horror

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This Tactical Shooter Is All About Surviving In The Most Terrifying Setting!

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  • Forever Winter is set to release on 24 September.
  • The game takes a unique approach to the survival horror genre
  • Ahead of this release, we spoke with developers from Fun Dog Studios to learn more about their work.

The Forever Winter is an upcoming survival horror shooter with co-op elements. Adding a unique spin on the genre, the team puts you in the shoes of an average and vulnerable character instead of the typical main character.

Fun Dog Studios embarked on an exciting journey with this project in 2022 and has been working on this tactical shooter to give fans a fresh, terrifying experience. The game is currently in early access, and the official release is in just a couple of weeks.

To delve further into the team’s approach to survival horror, we recently interviewed the developers at Fun Dog Studios. During our interview, we went over the rogue-lite elements, the team’s journey, and more.

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Forever Winter is an Upcoming Survival Horror With Co-Op Elements
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and the team at Fun Dog Studios?

Fun Dog Studios: Formed in 2022, Fun Dog Studios has grown to 30 full-time game developers and is fully remote. From a design perspective, we believe gaming needs to be harder to be fun, worth your time and your money. No one tells stories about beating the boss on their first try!

How did you go about deciding the player’s role in the overall story? Why make the playable character a random person instead of, say, a member of the warring factions?

Fun Dog Studios: Any other game would position the player as the chosen one, the only one who can stop the war. The Forever Winter is not that game. In our world, you’re not the hero – you’re a survivor, and you have to act like it. This shift in positioning also helps reinforce the concept at the heart of the game: going in guns blazing isn’t always the best option. The odds are stacked against the player – it’s adapt or die.

Can you explain how the rogue-lite elements play into the overall gameplay loop?

Fun Dog Studios: The Forever Winter’s dynamic environments and AI make it so no two runs are the exact same. And while you’re constantly building your skills and learning the game’s rhythm, you’re never too good to die. And if your squad dies, you lose everything – resources are gone, and you start the run anew. Best way to avoid this? Build up a stash back at the base to stockpile resources for later sessions. Or just try to not die.

Since this is a post-apocalyptic world and the experience is compared to survival horror, how limited are the resources? How much of your time is spent collecting ammo, supplies, etc?

Fun Dog Studios: Limited resources are just that: limited. When you die, you lose everything – say goodbye to the gear, the ammunition and the supplies you’d gained. More important than any bullet, though, is the water. Without it, you and all other scavengers die – and there’s a ticking clock that tells you exactly how much you have left. Find and retrieve water before your supplies dwindle, or it’s game over.

The post-apocalyptic setting has already been explored numerous times in past games. Does that make it challenging to tackle the setting in new games?

Fun Dog Studios: We’re a team of artists, so we are never short on fresh ideas. The beauty of The Forever Winter’s world is that the narrative benefits the setting itself. Every day, the war takes the land apart, and every night, a rapidly decaying AI puts it back together again. This concept allowed us to constantly push the boundaries of what the world could look like – nothing is set in stone.

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Whether you opt for solo play or co-op, you will most likely find The Forever Winter experience terrifying till the end. The game is set to release on 24 Sep 2024, and we wish the team the best of luck as this release draws nearer. We would also like to thank the developers for taking the time to answer our questions.

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