Hello!
Excited to share our game, Survival Simulator, co-created by me and @Saltax after tons of development. It’s a radioactive wilderness adventure where you gather artifacts to upgrade and delve deeper into the unknown. We’d love your feedback at the moment!
Thanks for diving into the radioactive wilderness with us! 
Interesting looking project, whats your marketing plan?
Thank you!
We’re planning to promote Survival Simulator on popular social media platforms like YouTube and TikTok, and we’re also considering advertising on Roblox. If you have any more marketing ideas, we’d love to hear them!
So when do you think your going to start marketing?
After completing the last round of bug testing and adding those final touches, we’re gearing up to kick off our marketing plan.
If you dont mind me asking how much was that animated trailer, and which platform are you going to start marketing on first?
I think the game trailer cost around $500, and we’re planning to start advertising on all platforms at the same time on the long run.
Wait $500 USD or 500 robux???
It was around 500 USD, but I’m not entirely certain; it might be a bit less.
Overall, I think you guys could use some QA tests.
I was playing with a couple people, @optimizedcoder, and @Iemny, so some things here are what they asked me to mention, credit to them! So for some of these points I won’t have photos, but just words.
Wonderful trailer!
I really love the style of this game, and the apocalyptic atmosphere to it, music, building, meshes, UIs are all great. There are some un-tapped and innovative ideas which you have implemented here, a very good job!
Take what is here with a grain of salt! It might seem like all the following stuff is a lot of bad things, but really it’s just a bunch of little issues, so it only appears to seem like a lot. The good certainly outweighs the bad!
The main points:
The smaller points:
The littlest points:
A few bugs we encountered:
Don’t be disheartened by any of this! Implementing complicated systems is bound to have issues. This is merely weed-whacking. This game has huge potential!! 
A magnificent piece of work you have made, and will continue to make.
Best of luck to you and your team, excited to play this more in future! 
Well put together. Noted pretty much all the important stuff we were able to find, so cheers for that.
Yes, it can seem like a very harsh post, but it’s a three-man-strong collective review. It is only to help get the game able to compete for spots on the front page.
The game definitely has potential. It’s pretty relaxing to play (no loud dubstep in your ear or over-saturated colors blinding you) and has enough elements to differentiate itself from the usual simulator games, but you just need to utilize the elements better.
Hope to see this game go to the right direction. Good luck, dev team.
Hi @koi1299, @Iemny, @optimizedcoder,
A massive shoutout for your detailed feedback and bug reports – it’s gold for us! Your inputs will shape the next version of our game, and we’re stoked about it.
About the spawn point discussion, your idea about centralizing them is intriguing. We’re thinking of updating the minimap to include all the zones, making navigation much more easier. What do you reckon about this?
Quick questions for you:
Big thanks again for your epic post. Looking forward to hearing more from you! 
Absolutely sounds great to have a visual aid, that will improve ease of discovery, so to me that could suffice for the spawn point being further away.
I’m so glad our contributions were helpful to you! It was fun to play! I’ll definitely join the comms server & group to keep track of updates.
You’re welcome for the feedback. Sometimes it can be refreshing to see how other people see the game, even if it is constructive criticism.
It is helpful if you include zone difficulties on the map, but maybe to encourage exploration, you have to either get close or step through into the next zone until you can see it on your map. Although this can change if it’s unbalanced and takes away the fun of it. I also want to add; include icons and players on the opened map, so it’s the same as the minimized map.
To get to your points;
I was the first person to shed light on the fact that it was odd that the spawn / beginner zone is right up against the edge of a giant dome, which was met with agreement from the others. I first noticed when I figured out I could open the minimap, and saw the player position being all the way on the edge. Considering the area we can travel is circular, being at the edge of the dome already takes away more than 50% of the area you can travel, and despite that, I found myself only exploring a tiny portion of the already small area to explore because there were many metal-detector spots cluttered in a single corner.
You should definitely move the spawn-area to the center. Being against the edge of the dome feels like you’re in a much smaller area, leading to an almost trapped feeling, as you can not progress to the next areas. Relocating the spawn to the center of the dome feels more free. You give more possibilities for exploration. I don’t know why, but sense of exploration comes from moving outwards, not towards the center of the dome.
Other than that, you should encourage more travel. Maybe add hot-spots around the map, like camping grounds or abandoned cooler boxes that have an increased rarity drop every 30 minutes to an hour. Make the player want to get to the next areas and tease them about it, like the metal detector picking up items past the zone they can reach. As it is right now, I felt more than fine staying in the first zone and not progress at all. (Perhaps adding a cheap suit that has a small durability so you can explore the second zone for a smaller amount of time to give the chance for increased rarity item. This will also feed the curiosity and reward the player for doing so.) I also encourage raising the difficulty with random events where players can risk their character dying but if they succeed, get better rewards.
TL:DR, make the center the starting point. Move outwards to the outside of the dome to reach more intense radiation zones. Add small hotspots in the all the zones to have a chance to even make it challenging for players.
As mentioned in my post before, this game definitely has the elements to become a unique and addicting game, but it’s just not being used to it’s best capability at the moment. If you require an opinion if I were to judge from the average player’s perspective, no, I would not play again. The game feels lackluster, and in-game did you not show any sign of future updates coming soon. So I would guess this is just another unfinished game left to fish up players with a tiny net, thinking it will be the same. If you want my opinion as a frequent DevForum user and smell dev-team enthusiast happy to support them, yes, I will play again. If I find out the game has updated, I will try it again. Whether I will leave another feedback post is up to you, as a freebie feedback is always fun to hand out, but if you think you are at a time where you added a few new features and really need some one to give feedback, I’m happy to help after receiving instructions through direct messages.
TL:DR, to make me come back to the game, showcase updates, update icons to show when it updated for people scrolling through the game page, update DevForums and show that you and your team will make this a better game than it was the last patch.
As previously mentioned, the game is not obnoxious. For me in a good way, for your income not a good way. The game does not have over-saturated colors, it does not have obnoxious music (other than the pawn shop), so that will scare away the kids. If I have to guess, I feel like engagement will be the best for male 13+ / 17+ demographic. I myself am unfamiliar with advertisements though, but I do know that there are a ton of topics on the #development-discussion forums where they talk about game advertisements and which groups are best reached.
I admire your positive outlook on the feedback, which gives me reassurance that the feedback was given to the right team. I trust you can do good with this game, and if you remember, update this topic or message me and I will come back for another try.
Hey @koi1299, @Iemny, @optimizedcoder,
Quick update: we’ve got your feedback safely tucked into our Trello. Huge thanks for your insights—it’s like having a treasure map to make our game even better!
Rest assured, we’ll keep you posted here on any updates, and when the next version rolls out, you’ll be the first to know. Your contribution means the world to us.
Massive thanks once again. Looking forward to the next round of improvements! 
