Overwinter Survival in IOS

App Store Editors’ Notes

Tough but possible to win

I won finally around 106 days. Oddly, my best survival is 112 days, but I died on that attempt. Even more funny, prior to finally winning, I think I died on day 3. So, some luck is involved, especially early on, but once you established yourself, it’ll be easier to weather the storm, so to speak. The key is HEAT. You can survive without much food, but you’ll freeze without heat. Pay attention to the brief tutorial. Get that stove working and get an axe and hammer ASAP on day one. This is critical. If you don’t do it, good luck surviving. You’ll want a knife later to build some crucial furniture. The rest, you’ll have to figure out. That’s part of the fun. You can use gems to help with cards, but it’s not necessary. I won without using any gems, and it’s more satisfying that way.

Has good Potential

This game’s cards seem impossibly difficult. They don’t appear to be random. I’ve spent days playing hundreds of times to rarely get by the first month. I can’t get far enough to find out what this game has to offer and have fun. My approach seems logical but the card algorithm has a different plan. Several cards need to be drawn, in exact order, to survive much less to get ahead. If you don’t get wood, then tools, then 3 woods every few days your going to die. Add a difficulty scale or something to make it less frustrating. If you try to buy items you’ll freeze to death. If you scrimp and save you will die too. My results are getting worse the more I play. The very few times you last a month bad cards, not bad play will kill you. What’s with the gems you earn from achievements? There’s no where to spend them that I can find. Also, this is for an iPhone screen. Small on my ipad. This will be good. It is not buggy and well put together. The fishing is fun, the dog is cool, and premise is great. I just really don’t care to learn a card algorithm as it is. I’ll check back.

Not up to date

I suppose my first mistake would’ve been not checking the last time this game was touched by developers. There is a bug when trying to light or fan the fire with the second furnace, where it requires 7 materials, and when I have 8/9 wood it tells me I don’t have enough. This is the kind of thing that screws you over, how can you expect a player to invest a few hours into the game just to get screwed over from not being able to light the fire. Check your game and fix the issues if you’re going to charge money for it.

It’s ok

Games alright at first till you realize you won’t ever get cards you need when you need them Unless by some crazy stroke of luck you get the perfect cards which you wont. Even then it will take restarting over and over to get far. The treasure chest makes no sense, you get a card you have to use right then and there but it’s might as well have been just a regular card anyway cuz it just gives you the same cards but with gold colors! lol. Maybe let us save the card for when we need it if it’s a gold card. Then there’s the iap which will let you spend these diamonds to get the actual cards you want. You can earn a few by playing but eventually you will run out of the free rewards and have to spend money to get more. Which is also what drags this game down, the fact it’s a purchased game but with iap that only help a single round is dumb. was fun for about an hour then I saw all this game has to offer.

Don’t get

This game is super buggy and infuriating. I would lose hearts completely out of random, as will as get stuck in transition cards and sometimes the furnace timer wouldn’t even show. The concept of trying to survive with the cards you’re dealt is a good idea but when I play 2 games in a row without getting wood (which is imperative for your survival) AT ALL is beyond frustrating and annoying. This is an entirely luck based game which takes away from the fun. When I finally beat the game it took forever because it refused to give me “repair plane” cards and I had to forcibly buy them from the in game currency I earned over time which I lost 8 hearts immediately after for absolutely no reason. This game is so bad that this is the first time I write a review to warn others not to waste their money

Love hate relationship

This game is very well made. Seems simple but it’s not. It’s very addictive and you want to get better. I made it 169 days without a dog and I was down to four life hearts. I got a savior card which holds your lives overnight but it bugged out and took them all anyways. And there was NO poison or ailment of any kind. That was a major error and let down. Also another bug I have run into, less of a problem of course but still relevant is when you try to use the fire card and you have enough wood but it says you don’t.

Game gets stagnant after a while

I wish there were updates for this game and different survival stories / scenarios. It is a good game but kinda gets old after a while especially when you get to over 100 days and one issue is at higher levels of the game you can have all your hearts and it only takes one chance for example your stove breaks then the cold hits and removes portion of your heart and you think you can do something about but you get sick at that same time and then remaining hearts and you die. This is the annoying part about it.