Survival is instinct. We share the planet with trillions of living things that spend every day staying alive. As George Carlin famously said, “That’s the secret of life … not dying!” It’s also the secret of video games. Survival is now a genre unto itself, albeit a human-focused one. Most games center on you, a human in a human world/apocalypse, surviving. But what about the other 99.999999 percent of living things? Don’t we ever get their perspective on survival?
