WWGW - Project Winter - a chilly look

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Published on June 11, 2019 10:01:42 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhs3Nu4fSfM

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Project Winter (2019)

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, and it turns out being stranded in a frozen wasteland ranks "fairly desperate" on the graveness scale. Don't trust anyone. [READ ON]

Let's get into the meat of it: You might not be able to trust others, but can you trust this review? What does this game have to offer me vs what others do? We've all been lied before, we preordered, kickstarted or believed misleading trailers, so what makes this review any different about this plainly named game? How can you know it can be trustworthy? Answer: You can't.

I can tell you that this game isn't quite the type of game that you can get from your first try...or second or maybe even third. Sure, I did win from my first try, yes, I am that great, I only lost the recording to prove it, but you'll have to take my word for it, because the next 9-10 games I ruthlessly lost, some in the first few minutes. Why, you may ask? I was simply too trusting.

Someone will ask you for help, will offer you some food, want to show you something...some might mean it...others might not, you can't know who to trust, but what you do know is that odds are that they might be a trustworthy person, since, the traitors are always in the minority and they need to be careful and effective...especially with the details.

While surviving as a group is fairly easy, if at least a few of them know what they are doing and the cooperation is efficient, gathering resources, doing objectives, assisting each other and working as a group ("The lone wolf dies, the pack survives" - and yes, the game has wolves and bears who will attack on sight), escaping shouldn't be too hard, as long as you fight the elements, anatomic needs, and the clock, you might even be able to escape on your own if you ever find and use that opportunity...but being a traitor on the other hand is a completely different story.

Since traitors represent 25% of the group (1 traitor for every 4 survivors), the odds that you would get that role are small. I managed to be only 2-3 times and failed every time miserably to be a good traitor. That sounds weird. A successful traitor, a grand saboteur! Your purpose is to have as few survivors escape, to make their job as hard as possible, while not getting discovered. You might have to win their trust, help them and plant the seed of discord, shift blame, all in order to have them fail. Your purpose isn't a selfish one, you do not want to evade the frozen wasteland, you just want to have them fail. You even get extra advantages for that, special crates or abilities, but, using them and being spotted can blow your cover. Cooperating with a fellow traitor might prove super productive but also super incriminating, so you'll have to play your cards right unless you plan to get exiled from the cabin or straight out executed by the rest.

This social game forces you to be social, introverts will find it challenging, be it via voice chat or text or simple ingame actions, your ability to blend in and work in a community will be put to the test and the results will vary. Just like in many social situations, there are also plenty of aesthetic customization options for you to spice up your character, both default and earnable via credits from boxes in the ingame menu.

So, returning to my previous supposedly hypothetical question "How can you know it (the review) can be trustworthy?" An even better answer: Get the game on on Steam and find out yourself. Maybe bring a friend, to make yourself feel a bit more comfortable.

Check out Project Winter now on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/774861/Project_Winter/?curator_clanid=32660416

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