The Stone-Age (Like H1Z1 with Mammoths)
Your tribe ventures out from the cave that they call home. You must hunt, gather, or scavenge some food today or risk starving to death. Some of your people get excited as they spot a patch of mysterious red berries but you remind them how those poisonous berries killed your sister-wife. You keep walking until you spot a mammoth stripping leaves from a tree. It could feed your entire clan for weeks and its bones could make for some excellent tools. It’ll be a tough beast to take down but you have brains, numbers, and sharp sticks.
You bring down your prey with little trouble. As your people begin to break down the carcass you hear a branch break nearby. Everybody stops what they’re doing and become silent. The whole world is silent. Could it be a saber-tooth cat or a pack of dire wolves attracted by the scent of your kill? Multiple figures leap out from the bushes. This danger is far worse than any wolf. It’s another group of humans. They’re armed with sharp sticks and they’re coming for your food.
This is the caveman survival MMO that we all need. You would craft tools from sticks, stone, and animal carcasses and use those to gather food and fight off predators. Like other MMO games, all human interaction would be made with some caution. Numbers can give you strength but a perceived weakness could make you the target of another group desperate to survive. Prehistoric man has been portrayed in video games before but never with brutal realism that could lend itself so well to the survival genre. Previous games featuring early man have mostly been slapstick or cancelled.
Considering the popularity of survival games such as DayZ and H1Z1 and the lack of games featuring the prehistoric era, the market could be ready to give us the cruel caveman game that we all deserve.
