The Wild Eight tells the great story of 8 people who are trapped in a land full of ice and snow after a plane crash. They find themselves in the nowhere land, deep in an Alaska forest. Welcome to this world of non-civilization, where you and others depend on nature - where wild animal starved by the freezing cold. And of course, trying to survive is really challenging.
Lost in nowhere land
While you are awaiting rescue, your life is threatened by many unseen creatures, mysterious entities, and objects. They surely do not belong to Earth. The farther you journey goes, the difficulty will increase with it. Via an engaging storyline, you will try to call for help over the radio, but there is no answer. Something is wrong.
There is no place for mistakes: if you go food searching but forgot about the firewood before nightfall, you will be dead. If you don't cook your meat, and eat it raw- you might get sick, and without medicine, you will die from poisoning. You need to craft and scavenge professionally to stay alive.
You could play this game on a single play by yourself. However, the title also offers a co-operation mode. Others are the only backup - by sharing their resources with you or cover your back. If you encountered the wolves and died, your teammate could still resurrect you up with the defibrillator.
Surviving
The world in this title is set up like a vast chessboard. It contains many tiles; lots of them are unique. At the begin of each game, the system will randomly generate a brand new world with distinct locations for the quest.
Time also move very fast. The temperature drops quickly when the night falls ( you must light a bonfire). And to stay alive till the morning, you will also need to find some food — the weather range from severe storms to sunny, with intensity and duration randomly generated by the engine.
Explore and survive the icing forest alone or with your friends. Co-op is the key to survive in this cold, harsh world - until, you find out there is a psycho in the group. She or he will try to taste the "delicious" human flesh.
Death is everywhere - especially cold and hunger. Secure your supply of food by gathering and hunting. Then spend your time to cook them properly so that you would be warm and healthy.
Level up
You can level up in this world with the linear categories, that are divided by the related quests. Like in the real world, if you suddenly separated from civilization, you will have to learn from the basics: make fire, navigate the forest, craft bows, spears, armor.
In this world, there are two crafting types: from the workshop, and right from your inventory. You can make basic equipment such as flares and knife from your inventory everywhere. But from the workshop, you will have access to more resources: there you could make and upgrade more complicated items like traps, backpacks, bandages...
The plot of The Wild Eight
The plot of the title is split into a primary campaign and extra quests. Surely, you could finish the plot without dealing with the side quest. However, they are quite essential for a good ending.
The primary story is generated when you begin, the side quests' locations will be defined randomly - so that critical events will be placed in equal distance.
The title features two creature types: aggressive and passive. Those passive animals do not want to hurt you. Thus, it is easy to hunt them: wild boars, deer, rabbits...Their passive behavior also varied, like, the rabbit will run as you approach them, while the boars will fight back.
On the other hand, aggressive animals might kill you in a direct confrontation. You need a good weapon to kill them, or just run away. Remember that only one bite could lead to your tragic death.
Getting the game
The Wild Eight is available currently via Early Access on Steam at the price tag of 19.99 U.S dollars. They plan to launch the title on the 3rd of October this year for PC. At that point, it would get a new global price of about 24.99 dollars.
We do not have any information about the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the title yet.
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