The Forever Winter is not your typical looter shooter power fantasy. You’re a nobody. A desperate scavenger looting corpses while titanic machines conduct a war that’s consumed the world. You’re not trying to fight them; you’re just trying to survive, and bring what you scavenge back to regular folk who are hiding from the devastation.
First announced with a grim cinematic trailer in February this year, developer Fun Dog has now given us our first proper look at its post-apocalyptic nightmare, with its miserable scavengers scurrying between burning, monolithic structures and looting the detritus of a fallen civilisation – all under the shadow of huge mechs fighting their never-ending war. The gameplay trailer does not paint a pretty picture of the future.
“[] was largely inspired by the opening scene in Terminator 2 and the future horror scenes in the first or . I remember spending thousands of hours basically building up armies in these different games” This is not a game full of heroics. While the four-player squads will face androids and even some human infantry that they’ll be able to take down, one of those huge mechs is going to easily be able to wipe them out – and they’re facing not one but two armies full of these seemingly insurmountable challenges.
