Day R Survival Honest Review, Tips and More

What is Day R Survival?

Day R Survival is a single-player or optional multiplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic USSR after a devastating nuclear explosion. As a survivor, you must navigate the harsh environment, scavenging for resources, managing your health, and fighting off enemies. With its mix of survival and RPG elements, you’ll progress by crafting gear, completing quests, and dealing with the fallout of a crumbled world.

What to Expect From It?

Day R survival is a slow pace survival game where you slowly progress by leveling up and getting better equipment day by day. You can gain experience and level up by simply crafting gear or materials, hunting animals, defeating bandits or raiders, raiding strongholds, and lastly by doing story quest and quests in settlements to also unlock the ability to craft and repair better gear in exchange of the faction’s currency (Black Rubles, Iron nuts, Ration cards). 

This game for me offers something that other survival games somewhat doesn’t provide. A simple yet immersive survival experience complete with you micromanaging your fuel and spare parts for your vehicle, food spoiling, managing the amount of items you bring on your next journey, realistic injuries with combat exploration debuffs, dealing with enemies, and many more.

What I Like About This Game/why You Should Play

First of all, let’s start with the positives. 

The grind on this game could be taken as a negative and it’s really tedious and takes a lot of time but for me, that makes your slow progression more satisfying. One example of it is from me grinding reputation and stockpiling gasoline in one settlement so that I can finally go ahead and build my first car,  get better weapons, craft better armor and be able to tackle tougher enemies on my way to the next settlement I need to go to progress the story quest.

The combat system here is very straightforward. You pick weapons before the fight starts and then you combat in a chessboard like grid with terrains that can either be a hindrance or a tactical advantage.

An Example of it is me dealing with a gang of bandits alongside allied NPC’s. The bandits seem to have a lot of armor so therefore i will bring armor piercing weapons and plan my moves to always go to cover to avoid getting killed by the machine gunner bandit.

I cannot even start on how I love the community in this game. It’s full of wholesome and helpful players that answer questions and can help you as long as you tell them what you need and where you are exactly. The global chat is also entertaining to read through since the player base from what I see is mostly adults that just chat and share their experiences with other people. 

What I hate about this game

Moving on from the things I like, we now discuss the negatives that really somewhat turned me off sometimes playing this game.

As a non-spender, I can say that the game is free to play friendly but as a free player, you have a 10 min per chat timer and this really makes it harder for you to communicate with gen chat let alone trade with other players. The loot caches you get as a premium user is a meh in mid game but the chat timer thing is the one that infuriates me the most.

Updates come in slow but mostly they make major changes and additions within the game making it a bit harder to adjust with the new system. Events also here get a bit too boring since the developers tend to extend the event duration when they cannot release the update next month.

The story in the game gets a little stale in later stages. It’s a repeat of Kill this, Explore this, Find this, Talk to this person, so on and so forth.

The survival in late game becomes less immersive as you will be able to stockpile so many items to the point that you never need to sleep and just keep on consuming energy replenishing items and suffer no consequences.

Some OP items are time gated by events and sometimes become an unobtainable item unless the event reruns again.

Any Tips?

 In this very first blog post I wrote, I shared some of my frustrations and reasons on why I like this game so therefore, before I finish, I am gonna share some tips you can use when you decide to play this game. 

• Painkillers are your life savers in times of you getting injuries since it cancels out the negative effects for a certain amount of period. Example is you got a concussion after a fight and you suffer a -25% hit chance in combat and – 15% searching speed time in looting and the concussion heals in 14 days. You can instead take some painkillers before you go back to the nearby settlement to heal all injuries.

• Salt everything. Stockpile Salted foods or go cook sausages since it eliminates the issue of your food spoiling. It is also more accessible and easier to stockpile than canned foods.

• Go trade with your peers in comm chat or by using the official discord. It makes the game a lot easier since in the end-game, you can build a vehicle with infinite fuel, has a lot of carry limit and is very durable (BelAZ) . Trading with other players will be a lot easier for you than grinding for each materials 

• Utilize food buffs in combat to make life easier. You can actually cook food that provides various buffs for gathering, looting, and combat. You can search up the recipe needed for a dish and there is no level needed to unlock it.

• Be careful on selecting perks since some of them are useless in late game or with your way of playing the game. An example of such perk is “Night Vision” because you can access powerful light sources in mid game 

• There is no shame in escaping battles. Survival is more important than you dying and losing levels and some items.

• I cannot think of any other tips other than having some patience. This is a slow pace game after all so if you rush it too much you will suffer consequences and be left out with nothing to start with and force you to fully restart your progress.

I can share a lot more about this game but it is too jam packed enough to the point that writing and reading through all of it will make this post like a user manual instead of a review so if you are interested, I highly recommend playing this game to experience it yourself. I thank you all for reading my very FIRST blogpost and have a great day!

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