About This Game
Quick Overview
The Survivalists is a co-op survival crafting game set on dangerous tropical islands, where you gather resources, build a base, craft tools, explore caves, fight enemies, and sail to new places. It comes from the same universe as The Escapists, but instead of escaping prison, you are trying to survive island life.
What makes it different is the monkey system. You can tame monkeys and train them to copy tasks like chopping trees, mining rocks, crafting items, building structures, carrying materials, or helping in combat. Once your monkey crew is working properly, your island starts to feel like a tiny survival factory.
Who Should Play This Game?
Play The Survivalists if you like survival games, crafting, base building, exploration, light combat, and co-op adventures with friends. It is a good pick for players who enjoy games like Don’t Starve Together or Terraria, but want something simpler, cuter, and more focused on automation helpers.
Skip it if you want deep survival realism, serious combat, or a huge open-world RPG. The fun here comes from gathering, experimenting, training monkeys, and slowly making island life easier.
Performance on PC
The Survivalists is very light on PC and should run well on most older systems. Steam lists minimum specs as Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / AMD Phenom II X2 550, 2 GB RAM, DirectX 11 graphics with 1 GB VRAM, and recommended specs as Windows 10, Intel Core i5-2300 / AMD FX-4350, 4 GB RAM, GTS 450 / Radeon HD 5770 1 GB.
In simple terms, almost any modern laptop or budget PC should handle it. Performance may only dip if your base becomes very busy with lots of monkeys, items, crafting stations, enemies, and structures on screen, but normal gameplay is easy to run.