• A thing that makes a survival game different from the rest is by adding a new need that can be increased or decreased. Most survival games have the usual: health, hunger and thirst. By adding another one of these you can make your game feel much more original. I'd suggest adding something like sleep/tiredness or mood.
  
  
• Giving the inventory an interesting and new style can often make a game seem original. Maybe you could try something like this:
  user has two main inventory spaces called “hands”, these are quickly accessed tools. There are 8 slots for tools that can easily be swapped into the “hands” slot while moving by pressing their number (automatically go into the “hands” slot being used. You have 30 spaces in your rucksack which cannot be easily swapped out- they must be moved manually. You also have 4 armor slots.
  
  
• Adding some kind of skill system could be interesting. Maybe allow the player to give their character some skills (possibly letting them apply 5 or so skillpoints to the playable character) from the beginning but also allow them to increase or decrease while playing. You could have strength (power of fighting or tools increased), agility (speed of everything increased), toughness (more health) and survivability (less likely to drown, eat poisonous things or make other mistakes- a bit like luck). They could increase with use: people who get hurt and survive often will become tougher, people who take chances and win more will become more survivable, etc, etc. They can also decrease with lack of use: people who move about less will become less agile, people who don't often use tools or fight will become less strong, etc, etc. It could add a feeling of necessity to being productive.
  

Nether_before wrote:

• A thing that makes a survival game different from the rest is by adding a new need that can be increased or decreased. Most survival games have the usual: health, hunger and thirst. By adding another one of these you can make your game feel much more original. I'd suggest adding something like sleep/tiredness or mood.
  
  
• Giving the inventory an interesting and new style can often make a game seem original. Maybe you could try something like this:
  user has two main inventory spaces called “hands”, these are quickly accessed tools. There are 8 slots for tools that can easily be swapped into the “hands” slot while moving by pressing their number (automatically go into the “hands” slot being used. You have 30 spaces in your rucksack which cannot be easily swapped out- they must be moved manually. You also have 4 armor slots.
  
  
• Adding some kind of skill system could be interesting. Maybe allow the player to give their character some skills (possibly letting them apply 5 or so skillpoints to the playable character) from the beginning but also allow them to increase or decrease while playing. You could have strength (power of fighting or tools increased), agility (speed of everything increased), toughness (more health) and survivability (less likely to drown, eat poisonous things or make other mistakes- a bit like luck). They could increase with use: people who get hurt and survive often will become tougher, people who take chances and win more will become more survivable, etc, etc. They can also decrease with lack of use: people who move about less will become less agile, people who don't often use tools or fight will become less strong, etc, etc. It could add a feeling of necessity to being productive.
  

Programmer1121 wrote:

Try something like something for you to fight?

hourtanok wrote:

oh oh oh! a survival feature.

FuzTheHamsta wrote:

Make it unique and interesting

Tyman393 wrote:

Maybe recreate Minecraft?

matey1234 wrote:

bump