How Did You Discover Unreal World?, A poll with 10 choices - click your own.

Saw it on JefMajor's Stream, played about ~6 trial characters, then decided to buy. When I first saw Jef playing this, it reminded me greatly of another roguelike (which I won't say out of courtesy!) that is similar, but set in a zombie apocalypse, which is now my second favorite roguelike (I'm happy to say that Unreal World is now my favorite overall!).

I will admit, the whole prospect of "buy a license and we will email you a code by hand" had me put off at first, but after an email conversation with Sami I was convinced you guys were legit.

Nah, we talk about other games here. It's fine.

We've had an on/off Dwarf Fortress discussion for a while.

Sami is great to talk to. I even did a short interview with him for a Comp Sci class a few months ago. It went very well.

I found this game all by accident.

I have no idea what i was searching from the net when i suddenly found a finnish gaming site listing all kinds of free or shareware games.

The site was old and not updated, as most of the addresses lead to nothing.

Being old, 35 years already, i have played my share of games, so i spotted many familiar names i had played. For example one was ADOM.

Just out of curiosity i opened few other game pages and one was URW describing it as survival game. At first i thought that it was something which had been made years ago and it would have been already dropped and forgotten but then i noticed that just few days ago a new patch had been published to it.

Well, that made me curious, but that didnt impress me yet. But when i found a gamespy site with an article, proudly announcing, "I survived medieval Finland", i knew that this has to be something. Something very different than anything else i had ever seen before!

I downloaded the free version and played it. Being so old my gaming habits have changed a lot, as im sure have happened to everyone of you as well. I usually played hour or two most, but this time, just like being a young again, i spend the whole evening playing and learning the game and the same thing next evening.

My wife played it as well but complained that those ten days didnt offered much. It didnt. After couple of days and after couple of characters i started to talk about what if we buy the game and after i checked out this site and another finnish fan site and tried playing with different ways, i thought that games like these needs support and decided to buy the lifetime version right away.

i discovered URW while looking for nekkid lez chix

To be more precise, I had a sudden hankering for survival games after playing a flash game (That I can't seem to remember, something along the lines of "Scavenger") of a similar genre. Google took care of the rest.

I really don't remember which year it was, but I'm certain that it was before internet was widely used. Instead we used a modem connected to a phone line, to dial a BBS. I was living in Eastern Finland, and to avoid paying long distance charges I preffered dialing a local BBS [read= "I didn't want to listen to my parents nagging at me because of increased telephone bills, so I chose to avoid long distance calls"]. There were one or two dozen of them in my area. Well, there was this one BBS I liked the most. It was run by a guy called Sami Maaranen. And quickly we became to know each other in real life, too.

We were working together on some things, and we both had projects of our own. Among Sami's projects was a rogue-like "The UnReal World". Back then it was just a one game out of those which we were working on. But it turned out that this one is something special.

I actually accidentally found it when I was kind of procrastinating...

I love[d] the game Stranded II, but I was being a responsible student and had deleted it from my laptop due to the impending final exam season that is (still) quickly approaching. Unfortunately, that didn't stop me from browsing the forums and looking at all the mods and stuff in lieu of actually playing it. Soooo procrastination stopping effectiveness = 0%. Procrastination stopping effectiveness after I found UnReal World = -100%. Awww, shoot.

Anyways when I got sick of reading about a game I couldn't play I wondered what other sorts of sim games were out there after realizing that every time I looked for a 'survival' game it was always some type of surviving a zombie horde or some other form of horror game. There were really no true 'survival' games that I could find, and to this day I wonder why it's not a big market.

The actual thing that led me to UnReal World was this thread on Ask MetaFilter that I stumbled across when googling various combinations of the words 'survival' and 'simulation' with a few other adjectives thrown in. The actual place I found it is here http://ask.metafilter.com/129912/Survival-Simulation-Games if anyone is interested. After people talk about Stranded for a while, someone mentions this game and for the heck of it I click on the link.

I browsed over the website for a while, and it was definitely intriguing. It certainly seemed to have a lot more depth than Stranded II, so I decided to try it out and got hooked right away. I'd say that the only thing that Stranded II has over UnReal World are its invariably flashier 3D graphics (and possibly its more intuitive control system, if you aren't used to these things), but actually I was rather pleased with UnReal World's screencaps and control because I had a brief month or two where I was trying to teach myself Dwarf Fortress and eventually gave up.

Now I probably won't ever install Stranded II again and will instead waste all my time on this game!

Hooray!

I found it on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun blog... in the comments about a survival "mod" for minecraft, while searching for articles about open-world thoughts

so if you made a comment there, thx to you

I read about the game in an forum. There are alot stories about interesting games. Mostly a mixture of a let's play and RPG. The Unreal world story got alot audience. Atleast 5 people posted there they bought Unreal World. And I think alot more bought it without writing about that.
I think this thread is the only review in german language about Unreal World in the whole wide internet.
http://civforum.de/showthread.php?79423-Un...-in-der-Wildnis

"Mikrobitin Huvi- ja hyötyromppu 2000?" Or 1999, or 1998. One of those CD's featured URW. I was a kid back then, and the game was too complex to keep my attention for long.

Home of the Underdogs, circa 2000. Played the demo countless times, and ended up buying several versions of the game.

Dwarf Fortress forum, I don't really remember what topic .

I had been playing Haven and Hearth, and realized how much I love survival games. But wanted a more singleplayer approach to it. And I remember seeing various threads on survival games on the Dwarf Fortress forums. So, I read through all the survival game threads and kept seeing Unreal World popup. There was even a long thread dedicated to it (now at over 70 pages).

So, I played the trial (twice) and bought UW the same day.

I found it here, where it was free to DL on 30th June.

I found the game after a search on Google for: Games like Stranded 2 (a 3D survival game about being washed ashore after an accident on a yacht). In the end, I found the game via a response to one of those ubiquitous Yahoo Answers pages.

I`m a long-time Dwarf Fortress player, but had always felt a tad divorced from the satisfaction of saying ^I built that^.... Something that URW really provides.

I`m so glad I found the game! I`m enjoying the creativity and freedom, as well as the ever looming threat of permanent death.

I just wanted to stop by and declare my love for this game. A friend at work told me about it last Friday, and it sounded fun. I downloaded it that night and got the major upgrade license. I got addicted, played until the early morning hours every night. I lost my first several characters, but I have a good one going now. Anyway, this game is great. I can see many fun-filled hours ahead. Thanks to Sami & anyone involved in its development.