Preview: Project Winter (Steam Early Access)

The perfect game to back-stab your friends. Project Winter is an 8 person multiplayer game focusing on social deception and survival. Communication and teamwork is essential to the survivors’ ultimate goal of escape. Gather resources, repair structures, and brave the wilderness together.

Pros:

• Beautiful papercraft looking graphics.
• 2156mb download size.
• Graphics-resolution, display mode, v-sync, fps limit, graphics presets, AA, texture/shadow/particles quality, post-processing, soft particles, and anisotropic filtering.
• Opening game guide.
• Tutorial video.
• Controller support.
• Game plays-survivors try to escape and traitors try to stop them.
• Character customization.
• 5 player roles-Helper, Survivalist, Prospector, Explorer, and Traitor.
• Two teams-survivors and traitors.
• Missions will appear as you play.
• Chat- text, emote, proximity and RADIO. (radios are colored and you can only speak with the person with the same color as you.)
• Hunger and warmth are mechanics in the game.
• Cabin- kind of like a safe house and here you can vote and exile players out.
• Cooking/crafting tables.
• Traitors get stronger over time, they get airdrop of loot when survivors fail a mission, you can sabotage.
• Survivors have to fix buildings in order to escape.
• Steam achievements.
• Unlock specific items by completing set goals with a certain player/role.
• 4 types of loot boxes. They have different themed items.
• Earn currency in game to buy loot boxes.

Cons:

• Lobbies are split across regions.
• No playable tutorial.
• Low player count.
• IAP feel out of place.
• Long initial load.
• Can’t join a game in progress even if there is space.