The Verge: Near Death is a tense, fantastic game about surviving Antarctica

22 Oct 2016

The Verge took a look at Near Death , and they loved it! Near Death, a first-person survival game released this summer, is easiest to describe in terms of the things it’s not. Taking place in an abandoned Antarctic research base in the 1980s, Near Death shares a setting with John Carpenter’s The Thing — but it’s not a sci-fi or horror game. Its main mechanic is avoiding death by crafting and scave…

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