PlayerUnknown Productions is the home of the titular PlayerUnknown of PUBG fame, but the studio is taking a decidedly different direction with its next project. Prologue: Go Wayback is an open-world survival game that aims to be unapologetic in its brutality as you navigate your way through the wilderness. While the likes of Minecraft will have depleting health to alert you that you’ve not eaten, neglecting your body's needs in Prologue will result in your run coming to an end as your character succumbs to hunger. So much so that the developers have said they "try not to say 'fun.'"
However, despite a wilderness survival game evoking images of Minecraft, Rust, and Valheim, PlayerUnknown Productions actually found more inspiration in the shambling corpses of the undead. Games like DayZ, Project Zomboid, and even Left 4 Dead turned out to be bigger inspirations for the game, which probably says more about how brutal Prologue is set to be than I can.
