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Lightning strikes a nearby tree. Fire! Your group of Neanderthals must now endure Mother Nature and work together to keep the fire going long enough to learn its mysterious powers and destructive capabilities. You have 14 days to uncover its secrets before a massive flood drowns the valley and extinguishes humanity’s one chance at becoming the apex predator and escaping extinction.
Don't Let It Die is a cooperative survival game based on early humanity's struggles to cement their place at the top of the food chain. You will gather resources & food, fight deadly predators, and learn the mysteries of fire. Your task is a difficult one, but no matter what happens, remember: you and the fire must survive...
Your tribe consists of 4 characters, all taking turns to search for resources, fight off dangerous animals, unlock new discoveries, and working together to keep the fire alive!
Designed from the ground up to offer a re-playable, interactive, strategic cooperative experience for 1-4 players. The key to victory lies in your group's ability to adapt to the ever-present and always changing threats of prehistoric life. Should you focus on hunting and foraging to feed your starving tribe? Or should you be more concerned with supplying the dwindling fire with more wood? Perhaps constructing a weapon or tool might ease the stress of gathering resources...
These choices and more await you in what will surely be the ultimate test of survival.
—description from the designer
- Very interesting co-op cooperative game.
- Pretty decent one.
- Works well.
- Very fun co-op game.
- Quite a fun co-op game.
- Each character has different abilities.
- Actually quite a pretty good game.
- Not ranked as an A for now.
- Can be a little luck driven.
- With the expansion, it's pretty much almost impossible to win.
- Cooperative game where players try to reach the end of a tech tree without dying.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — A very interesting co-op cooperative game.
- crafting — You can craft weapons.
- Resource Management — Need to collect enough wood to keep the fire alive, enough food to heal, and other stuff.
- Tech Tree — Players have a little tech tree and specific actions each round.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- As soon as I finish playing Ark Nova, I'm thinking about Ark Nova again.
- This is the game that made me want to try and figure out how to play card drafting games, how to play action selection games.
- It's a classic engine builder, and it still holds up today.
- The scale of the game is huge and it feels like you're really accomplishing something.
- Each faction plays completely differently, offering huge replayability.
- It's a challenging game with a lot of moving parts.