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Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Plains of Pain is a early access, survival and massively multiplayer game
developed and published by Cobra Byte Digital.
Released on February 17th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, Czech, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, German and French.
It has received 332 reviews of which 282 were positive and 50 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Plains of Pain into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- Memory: 10 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 7 GB available space
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Since 0.6 dropped been having a blast in single player. This game is shaping up to tick ma boxes.
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Great game, Kenshi meets Conan. Absolute hidden gem. Tons of depth. 8/10. It is mysteriously addictive. It is rough around the edges but the greatness is there.
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Fallen Earth meets Kenshi. This game is something else. Yeah it's a survival game, but it's also a sandbox. The first hour will be the hardest you'll experience. After you craft a larger backpack and know where all the water is, you'll be fine. The game divvies out quests to help you along but after a few, you're pretty much on your own. You can walk around, kill mutants, bandits, other players, friendly npc's, whatever. Eventually you will have to craft your base. This entails some interesting mechanics. Some of the structures produce survivor npc's that you can send to collect resources. Alot of the crafting recipes have to be found first. this is usally done by farming bandit camps early on. Next, you'll want to craft a vehicle and this is done very easily. The game will always tell you where a scrapyard is nearby. You'll be farming there for a long time, crafting stone hammers to bash destroyed vehicles for parts to fix up your vehicle. All objects that are created by other players are permanent with no decay timers. So what you'll find is by the starting area on the MP server, several crates made by other players. Some of them are mine. If they aren't locked, you can loot them. If you do decide to play, I recommend the MP official server. There aren't too many people that play MP and it's a shame. The entire game is community driven. I could build a water container to collect water in some part of the map that other players can help build and use. it's pretty amazing gameplay. I also will fix up the gasoline pumps littered around the map so other players can fill up on gasoline, not just me. Players do all of this. So it feels like an MMO, and a survival sandbox all at the same time. There are also factions. You run into camps further out in the wasteland where you can convert your currency to earn rep. Once you reach a certain rep threshold, you can convert your gold currency into the much coveted tungsten currency. Tungsten is then used to purchase the best armour in the game, Tungsten steel armor. The rep decreases over time and you must regain that rep again by doing the currency conversion. End game is also all about farming faction bases. This entails killing guards and waiting 10 minutes for respawns. Each subsequent respawn increases the difficulty slightly. This is a good way to get xp when you're high level like me, since these are the only mobs once you rech lvl 40+ that give you any amount of decent xp per kill. Everything else is peanuts and you need alot to level at that point. Survival Mechanics: Overheat will hit every day around 8am and 2pm. When this occurs, you better have light clothing on, a small load, and plenty of water and food. In POP, the heavier the gear, the more uncomfortable you are. We aren't at SCUM levels of micromanagement here, but you have to stay in the shade. The game actually has programming for when you're standing in shade, or under cover. It will lower your heat and you'll cool down. You can manage all of this from on screen information. Very hardcore mechanic, the overheat. If you dont have at least a liter of water and a couple cans of food when it hits, you're probably dead. If you decide to play on the US West Official Server, near the spawn point at Frank and Ron's, the condo size tower there is mine. Don't be afraid of the metal walls. They're just there to prevent the jackass drivers from colliding into my building. Come on in. There's water and a campfire. Clearly this indy game has alot of depth. It's a shame not alot of folks know about it or are playing it.
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First impressions were subpar, but after modding the game to my liking and getting used to the gameplay and its quirks, I have to say that this is an awesome hidden gem of a survival game! Combat at first felt clunky, but once you get better weapons and figure out how to dodge enemies, it feels quite satisfying and the game is able to handle huge amounts of NPCs without slowdown. It uses a stamina system, with heavier weapons using more stamina. Enemies are varied with unique animations and styles, like the rushing bonecrushers that hit hard and run fast or the slow and weak limpers that stumble about. The shotguns feel very satisfying to use, with both power and range, very useful against hordes. The survival elements are very hardcore with extreme heat which dehydrates you very quickly and even roasts you if it gets too hot. There's some rudimentary base building that also features base NPCs like workers and guards, but I've read that the devs plan on improving it. The game feels very grindy in the beginning, but once you get going you'll have plenty of resources. One of the more intersting aspects is the randomized event system which spawns enemy camps and other objects dynamically, however it can sometimes spawn objects inside other objects, like that one car I saw stuck inside a building. It makes every trek through the wasteland feel unique and can lead to pretty cool events like hordes of brainscorched lowlives raiding settlements. There's also randomized environmental effects like heatwaves and meteor showers, the latter which can be especially annoying during permadeath runs, when that one meteor just has to hit you even though you hid inside a building. NPCs will also drive around in the neat hover cars, which makes the world feel lively. There's a basic faction system, with 4 factions currently, with 2 of them being the main factions. Optimization wise it runs rather well (RTX 3050 laptop) and the game has very long rendering distances for both NPCs and lights. It's very atmospheric to see hordes in the distance or the city lights at night. Plains of Pain features multiplayer but sadly the servers are unpopulated. Singleplayer is still very enjoyable, but I can see this being fun online. Overall this is a pretty good post apocalyptic open world survival game.
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Exactly the kind of game I've been looking for, captures the emptiness and desolation of trying to survive in a Mad Max style desert with a great post apocalypse aesthetic and mostly importantly hovering vehicles. Extremely excited to get the point where I'm running cargo transport on my junker. I hope development continues for a long time 'cause whilst it still feels fairly early the ideas are great. Kind of a cross between Kenshi, 7 Days to Die and Zomboid.
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Plains of Pain is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Plains of Pain is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Plains of Pain received 282 positive votes out of a total of 332 achieving a rating of 7.89.
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Plains of Pain was developed and published by Cobra Byte Digital.
Plains of Pain is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Plains of Pain is not playable on MacOS.
Plains of Pain is not playable on Linux.
Plains of Pain offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Plains of Pain offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Plains of Pain does not currently offer any DLC.
Plains of Pain does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Plains of Pain does not support Steam Remote Play.
Plains of Pain is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Multiplayer
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Online players
23
Developer
Cobra Byte Digital
Publisher
Cobra Byte Digital
Release
17 Feb 2023
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