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It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is a open world survival craft, colony sim and rpg game
developed by Bob
and published by Ginormocorp Holdings Ltd.
Released on April 25th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Hungarian, Turkish, French, Spanish - Latin America, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 3,579 reviews of which 3,118 were positive and 461 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 8.25€ on Steam with a 30% discount, but you can find it for 2.46€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or higher
- Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel quad-core and above (Subject to change)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 660m or equivalent (Subject to change)
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Download the free demo to find out how well your PC can run it!
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Concise Game Reviews: "Survivalist: Invisible Strain" (Scroll down for the longer version) Game Value: ✅ Highly recommended for fans of survival colony simulators, character-driven narratives, and zombie apocalypse settings. "Survivalist: Invisible Strain" invites players into a vast, evolving world where every character matters, relationships are vital, and survival depends on your choices. Build your community, manage complex social dynamics, and adapt to a world where trust can be fatal. Will your settlement thrive against the odds, or will it collapse under the weight of invisible threats? Game Tags: ✔Open-World ✔Survival ✔Colony Management ✔Zombie Apocalypse ✔Character-Driven ✔Single-Player ✔Co-op Genre Classification: A deep survival and colony simulation game blending open-world exploration, social interaction mechanics, base building, and strategic management. It offers an emergent gameplay experience rich in player agency and storytelling. Game Length: Potentially endless; hundreds of hours of gameplay thanks to procedurally generated worlds, sandbox modes, and highly replayable scenarios. Challenge Level: High; mastering survival, relationship management, and colony growth requires strategic thinking, adaptability, and a strong learning curve. Graphics: Functional 3D visuals that focus on clarity and utility. While not AAA polished, the visuals effectively support the immersive sandbox and survival experience. Technical Stability: Generally stable, though some players report occasional jankiness in controls and minor bugs. Ongoing updates and an active dev team address these issues regularly. Replay Value: Extremely High; procedural generation, diverse modding support, complex character interactions, and emergent gameplay ensure that no two runs are the same. For further insights, feel free to join my [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MaverickGameVault]Steam group or follow my updates on my [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MaverickGameVault/]curator page . Detailed review: Key Features: 🧟 Dynamic World Simulation: Every NPC has a name, personality, and memory, impacting their behavior and your interactions over time. 🏘️ Colony Building and Management: Recruit survivors, manage their needs and moods, assign jobs, and build a fortified settlement. 🤝 Deep Social Mechanics: Develop relationships through friendship, respect, fear, or manipulation. Handle disputes, romance, betrayals, and alliances. ⚔️ Hybrid Combat System: Engage in third-person action combat or RTS-style command battles with zombies and human factions alike. 🧠 Stealth, Strategy, and Survival: Hunt, farm, craft, set traps, and outwit the deadly Invisible Strain that threatens to wipe out your community. 🌟 Overview: "Survivalist: Invisible Strain" blends open-world survival with deep colony management and social dynamics. In a world where anyone could be an enemy, the game challenges players to build trust, forge communities, and outlast hidden threats. 🎮 Gameplay: 🏚️ Settlement Construction and Defense: Build homes, farms, defenses, and crafting stations to create a thriving outpost in the wilderness. 🔫 Flexible Combat System: Engage enemies using stealth, firearms, melee weapons, or tactical squad commands. 🔄 Roguelike and Sandbox Elements: Experience emergent storytelling with permadeath, resource scarcity, and random world generation. 💬 NPC Interaction and Recruitment: Persuade survivors through kindness, intimidation, or cunning to join your cause and expand your community. 🧬 Invisible Strain Mechanics: Beware of infected infiltrators who act normally until they suddenly turn, devastating your group from within. 📖 Story and Depth: The story focuses on survival against overwhelming odds rather than a traditional narrative. Rich emergent storytelling arises naturally through character interactions, betrayals, relationships, and battles for survival. The looming threat of the Invisible Strain keeps tension high, offering a gripping survival experience. 🏆 Verdict: "Survivalist: Invisible Strain" is one of those rare games where the stories you create are better than anything scripted. Whether it's a friend betraying your group, a romance blooming amid chaos, or a desperate defense against the infected, every playthrough feels like a personal journey. The colony management is both satisfying and nerve-wracking as you balance supplies, morale, and security while preparing for inevitable attacks. The flexibility in gameplay—whether you favor stealth, diplomacy, or brute force—makes each approach viable and rewarding. Sure, some rough edges remain, especially around the janky controls and steep learning curve, but these minor flaws pale against the sheer ambition and depth of the world. "Survivalist: Invisible Strain" is a true gem for fans of deep survival simulation, and with the active modding community and constant updates, its future looks even brighter. ✅ Good: 👍 Deep emergent storytelling: Character relationships and dynamic world events create unforgettable moments. 👍 Massive replayability: Procedural generation, sandbox settings, and modding support keep gameplay endlessly fresh. 👍 Robust colony management: Balancing the needs, moods, and relationships of your community adds meaningful challenge. 👍 Tense survival mechanics: Resource scarcity and the threat of invisible infection maintain high tension throughout. 👍 Excellent community and developer support: Frequent updates and an engaged modding scene add immense value. 🛠️ Ways of Improvement: 👎 Clunky movement and combat controls: The control scheme could be more intuitive and fluid, especially during fights. 👎 Sparse guidance for new players: Steep learning curve with little tutorial support can be overwhelming at first. 👎 Inventory management issues: Loot handling feels cumbersome, lacking quality-of-life features like easy dropping. 👎 Some repetitive gameplay loops: Settlement building can become routine without additional long-term quality-of-life enhancements.
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I've owned Invisible Strain for over two years now. It's safe to say I have opinions on the game and how it's been worked on in this time period. The sheer amount of regular updating this game gets is astounding, especially when it's an Indie team behind it. At *least* once a month for an update was constantly ongoing for the game's public beta testing, sometimes as many as three or four. This game is well taken care of, and hammers out issues really quickly as soon as they pop up. Content wise, this game's gotten much more diverse over the years. Originally there wasn't much to do other than build a colony of survivors and try to gather enough supplies every year. Now there's factions, wars, hunting, bounties, an endgame scenario, an INSANE modding community, and that's just all that's immediately noticeable. This game has come so far over the years and this just proves that there's several Indie development teams that actually care about the product that they put out. This game's price is justifiable, and I have nothing but faith that it will continue to grow in the future. I HIGHLY recommend this game if you're into zombie survival games, and check out the modding community behind it too, there's a lot of stuff the modders have been able to do to Invisible Strain that makes it an amazing experience.
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i got this game early on in its life cycle i still remember the first game and now we got an sandbox version/second game thank you Bob you an real one for making this game bro and i'm glad i bought it and got to see its many updates and patches i been here before the workshop was implemented for this game and im still here now i never regretted buying this game despite how many times i wanted to beat up my Laptop but thank you and i thank the Publisher as well
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I rarely review games on Steam, despite so much of my life being taken up by them, but I recently had a positive interaction with the developer, and I feel the need to tell you all that this game is worth a purchase. I love the game in its current state, which is still under development, and I love it even more with between 40 and 50 mods enabled at any given time. What makes this even better is that I had a game-breaking error that was caused by a mod, but I had no way of knowing this without someone's help, and the mod's creator hasn't been around lately. Without knowing that a mod caused my issue, I emailed the developer with my crash report, as the game told me to, and I received a helpful and timely response directly from the developer, who obviously took the time to find the source of my problem and even told me what mod was causing it and how to get around it, which devs simply don't do; if it's a mod problem, its your problem, not theirs. What did Bob, the developer, also do that prompted this review? He commented on the mod's Workshop page, on my behalf, with the error and a suggestion for solving it while also changing the way that the crash alert is worded. A few years ago, I had a similarly game-breaking error in a game whose name rhymes with Basedland 2. I reported that error, and the developer himself responded. He told me that it doesn't happen, and that was that. Funny enough, when the remastered version came out, the problem that never existed had been fixed. With Bob, I got a response within two hours, telling me what went wrong and why with an attempt to have it fixed, and I still can't believe it. How is the game? It's freaking awesome. It's a zombie survival game with full mod support. You can get the living crap beat out of you one day, then amass a small army to kill the living crap out of the same enemy over the course of a week or less (in-game time, unless you just don't play often, or you do it often but you do it really slow for some reason). It's still being fixed and updated, but it's a full game at this point, so it doesn't require mods. It's just nicer with them once you know what you want. I play PC and console games more than I do pretty much anything else, short of listening to music and smoking pot, but I seriously don't ever review games because I don't know where to begin or end while still being fair and honest. All I'll say is that I just love the game. I love killing zombies, I love battling raiders, looters, and other survivors, and I really love getting revenge on the ones that attempt to attack or extort me, especially when it involves sneaking around with a knife, bow, and arrows to take them out one by one before my clan storms their gates with molotovs and nail guns - some of this may be happening because of mods, I don't know anymore. I can ramble incoherently for pages and pages worth of paragraphs and run-on sentences, or you can do like LaVar Burton told me as a kid in the 80's and just not take my word for it (that, and not to push the warp core too hard). If that was incoherent to you, it means you have to buy the game to know how good it really is.
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The game is as difficult as Kenshi. The combat will leave you crying in early hours. Get beaten up; get strong. The NPC behavior in this game is brilliant. NPCs in this game are fully simulated. They have their own jobs, their social circle and general thoughts. Overall, this game is a 10/10 for me. I haven't had so much fun in the past few years.
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain is currently priced at 8.25€ on Steam.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is currently available at a 30% discount. You can purchase it for 8.25€ on Steam.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain received 3,118 positive votes out of a total of 3,579 achieving a rating of 8.40.
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain was developed by Bob and published by Ginormocorp Holdings Ltd.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is not playable on MacOS.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is not playable on Linux.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain does not currently offer any DLC.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain does not support Steam Remote Play.
Survivalist: Invisible Strain 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Survivalist: Invisible Strain.
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Developer
Bob
Publisher
Ginormocorp Holdings Ltd
Release
25 Apr 2025
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