Adam finds a machete early on, which can be effective against single opponents, but leaves you open to attacks when facing multiple foes. Finding these resources is rare, often requiring exploration into the fog and fighting past defensive survivors or armed gangs for their own spoils.Ĭombat is subject to its own limitations. Bottles of water, soda cans, canned food and certain medicines can help you recover either health, your stamina bar's capacity or even restoring some of your stamina mid-climb. Sparse supplies can be found in the rubble to alleviate your physical condition. The feeling of danger and unease is constant, making even safe areas unnerving and threatening locations downright frightening. If not from climbing or the roving gangs of ruthless survivors, from the poisonous fog that eventually covers the city's street level, draining your stamina simply by walking through it before needing to scamper up a building for fresh air. And though level ground offers respite, your stamina will only recover as far as your new maximum, leaving you with less stamina to overcome the next obstacle.Ĭareful movement and meticulous planning of routes can reduce the damage taken but it is impossible to prevent entirely, making some amount of damage frequent and inevitable. Mashing the right trigger allows you to make a last effort to reach level ground, where your stamina will refill, but the stamina depletion only quickens. Should you let it fall entirely the stamina bar's maximum capacity will begin to drop, as will your health. As you climb over and through the rusting ruins of the city, your stamina will slowly deplete. In true survival fashion, your greatest foe is actually Adam's own limitations. Comparisons to Cormac McCarthy's The Road are inevitable and justified, as I Am Alive takes a similarly chilling and mature approach to its post-apocalyptic landscape. The atmosphere is laid thick, with allusions to cannibalism, suicide and rape, among other dark themes that games seldom dare to explore. Away on business at the time of the event, Adam finds his way back to his home city in search of his wife and daughter, only to find the city in ruins. You play as Adam Collins, the survivor of a cataclysmic event that devastated the world. I Am Alive is the polar opposite of that evolution, stressing survival above all else. Over the years, the genre has evolved more towards its horror half, keeping the scares but offering abundant tools for a more action-oriented approach. The survival horror genre was first born from the combination of providing players with cheap scares and limited resources.
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