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Content notice: «In the game, you can see corpses, severed body parts, blood, bones, and disfigured human remains, including fragments of a naked body».
Very Positive — 86% positive (546 reviews) · 2 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
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Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
About this game
LIFE EFFECT Survival — A New Chapter!
Introducing LIFE EFFECT Survival — an enhanced and expanded version of the game.
✦ New Content — additional missions, locations, mechanics, and enemies
✦ Ongoing Updates — active development aimed at making the game truly unique
✦ Complete Freedom — create, fight, and explore without limits
✦ Signature Style — everything you loved about the original, now even better
Dive into the brutal world of survival with renewed intensity!
About the Game
History:
Alien invaders invaded the planet, exterminating most of the population, humanity, being on the verge of annihilation, united its armies and gave a serious rebuff to the enemy, bringing down all its might on him. After several years of war, the climate on the planet has changed significantly, the virus and alien particles have greatly mutated animals and humans. The military created fortifications for protection, and extraterrestrial technologies were mined, which helped create medicines and weapons, vehicles and robots. The war continues, some fortifications are fighting with each other, advancing their goals and ideas, trying to get alien artifacts with which they can move to the next stage of evolution and gain complete superiority.
The player's task is to survive in this world by helping peaceful fortifications. Collect resources and create the best weapons and equipment, fight off enemy forces and prevent the invasion of monsters from other planets.
In the game you will find:
✦ Survival in a harsh world from the first or third person perspective of a character.
✦ The lives of the surviving civilians and the activities of enemy groups.
✦ The infection of the world, mutations, many powerful creatures and Titans.
✦ Battles with alien life forms and their technology.
The world does not stand still:
✦ The longer you play, the more events, encounters, quests, and unexpected situations unfold around you.
✦ Lots of quests, plot and stories, NPC stories and adventures, interactive events in the world.
Three genres are one brutal reality. Shooter, RPG, and Horror elements.
✦ Shooter — intense shootouts where every decision can cost a life. Shoot tactically. Upgrade your hero to match your fighting style. And never forget that you are being watched.
✦ RPG mechanics — develop your character, enhance equipment, equipment, drones, turrets and robots. Influence the plot and choose your path.
✦ The atmosphere of survival and horror — the world presses, the enemies frighten, and the cold becomes a personal enemy.
✦ There is a place for real tension here. You don't just shoot — you survive, evolve, and be afraid. Every shot, every dialogue, and every rustle behind your back may be your last.
Not just survival, technology is under control.
✦ Creative freedom — create weapons, armor, equipment, and even companions.
✦ Own your own army — build robots and cyborgs that will fight on your side. Your allies don't have to be human.
✦ Technology warfare — from drones to heavy armored vehicles: everything you build works for you.
The use of technology, the creation of robots and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Do you want a drone that scouts the territory? Or a cyborg who watches your back? Everything is in your hands. In the game, you don't just survive — you create.
DNA, eggs, cubs, animals, people:
✦ Grow, tame, hire — assemble a squad to suit your style of play.
✦ Find, grow, create — find eggs, steal a baby, or extract the DNA of a monster and create a unique companion.
✦ Genetic Laboratory — use DNA samples to create new species and hybrids.
✦ Taming animals — find and tame wild or peaceful animals, they will become faithful helpers on the journey.
✦ Mercenaries — hire people who will fight on your side if you trust them with your back.
✦ Pets that grow up with you — your companions level up, learn new abilities and help in battle.
Capture → development → defense. Your fortress is underground.
✦ Capture the bunker — recapture the underground shelter from the monsters and make it your base.
✦ Development and Improvement — Build crafting machines, a laboratory, an incubator, and other modules for storing resources, companions, and transportation.
✦ Defense — build turrets, fortify entrances, strengthen walls and personally repel hordes of enemies.
✦ Automatic resource collection — send mercenaries and pets in search of loot.
There is an old bunker somewhere in the forest. It's crawling with monsters right now. Purify it and it will be yours.
Develop the shelter: Strengthen the defenses to repel the attacks of the creatures. And when you are not there, send mercenaries and pets to collect resources. The bunker lives on, even when you're in combat.
You are not alone in the world of LIFE EFFECT Survival.
⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️
1. ⏳ If you have a black screen when starting the game, just wait a few minutes, the game will load 100% into RAM. I'm working on speeding up the launch of a client.
2. 🎮 There is currently no gamepad support in the game.
3. ⚙️ There is no key rebinding.
4. 📝 The game does not have cloud saves. It creates a save folder on your PC.
📢 Therefore, if these features are very important to you, please take this into consideration and do not purchase the game! At the moment, I cannot provide a timeline for when these features will be implemented.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7+ / AMD Ryzen 5+
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6GB+ / AMD Radeon 6GB+
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD/M2 recommended
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7+ / AMD Ryzen 5+
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8GB+ / AMD Radeon 8GB+
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD/M2 recommended
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Crafting Progress Saving v.0.49
Hello everyone, survivors!In this update, I've reworked and improved the crafting system, which allowed us to connect all crafting data to saving. Now active crafting is saved, and you can go about your business on other locations, then return to pick up finished items.Important:✅ Crafting is now saved. If you start crafting (even multiple crafts on several workbenches) and go play on other locations or quit the game, the data will be saved. If you leave for other locations while crafting is active, the process will now continue in the background, and when you return to the workbenches, you can pick up finished items (just like when raising pets in the incubator).✅ Convenient display of items you need to gather for a quest has been added. Open the quest menu, select the desired quest that requires item searching: next to the description of the objective there will be an icon, hover your mouse over it to see an info window.✅ A button for the maximum number of items has been added when using crafting, disassembling ammunition, dropping from inventory, and selling items. Now you don't have to press the "plus" (+) to set the desired amount: just press the "Apply maximum amount" button, and the maximum number of items that can be sold, crafted, dropped, or disassembled into parts will be set.✅ "Vehicle ammunition" has been added to ammunition disassembly. Now you can break down unwanted ammo packs and create the needed caliber for vehicles or companions.Read full article on Community Announcements (EFFECT STUDIO)AnnouncementsOfficial
Companions, Leveling, and Abilities v.0.48
Hello everyone, survivors!In this update, I'm releasing a mechanic that will significantly boost the combat power of companions and, especially, mercenaries. Alpha pets — the monsters mentioned in the description — will be introduced in upcoming updates. Check out my video-Devlog #32, where I detail the update and how to use these mechanics. If you're not subscribed to the YouTube channel, please subscribe and show your support.Important:✅ Legendary and alpha pets (companions) will now stand out in their personal menu with certain elements and colors. They will also be highlighted in incubators.✅ All companions now increase their bonus damage through critical hit chance and critical damage leveling, and later — through amplifiers and boosters once such items are introduced.✅ All legendary and alpha companions (monster pets) will now gain increased stat values when leveling and growing. Legendary companions will be stronger than regular ones, and alpha ones will be stronger than legendary ones.✅ Mercenaries you hired, leveled, or bought before this update will receive a one-time recalculation of level-up points. You can spend skill points to increase stats in the mercenary menu. Note: if you're not currently playing but have mercenary companions, please log in and visit your companions so their levels are recalculated and they receive skill points in your save.✅ Human mercenary companions can now use devices and equipment. In the companion menu, click "Enhancement" to see what that companion can use. Equipment slots for companions will unlock as they level up. For monster and animal companions, I plan to introduce something similar in "Enhancement." To install equipment on a companion, move an item (e.g., a drone) into their inventory, then open the "Enhancement" menu. If the companion's level allows, the button will become colored and active; click it to have the companion install that equipment for use.✅ In the "Enhancement" menu, just below devices and equipment, ...Read full article on Community Announcements (EFFECT STUDIO)AnnouncementsOfficial
Enemy stats display v.0.47
Hello everyone, raiders, mercenaries, and just survivors! 🎮In this update, I am releasing the enemy stats display mechanic for you. Many players have asked for this mechanic, and now you can see the enemy's health bar, rank, defensive and negative effects, as well as whether it is an elite mob or a boss. Now I will write how to use this mechanic.1. Buy the Q7 Scanner from the equipment trader, with which you can scan the enemy and add it to the fortification database. At the fortification base, in the "Server Room" premises, there is a terminal where you can find out all the information about the enemy and what items can be obtained from it. An alternative in the form of a mobile tablet is sold by the equipment trader; through the tablet you can study the enemy at any time.1. Buy the Threat Analyzer AU "Spectrum" from the equipment trader, equip it on your character, and now, if you have previously scanned this enemy, you will see its health bar when aiming.Important: ✅New items added to the game: Threat Analyzer AU-3 "Spectrum" ranks 2, 3, and 4. Can be bought from the equipment trader.✅Fixed a bug with weapon sticking and switching.✅Fixed bugs reported by players, adjusted some items, fixed quest errors, and added new markers to make it easier to find NPCs or quest locations.To implement the enemy health bar mechanic, I had to make changes to every NPC mob. There are currently over 200+ enemy mobs in the game, so if you see that any of them do not have a health bar after scanning, let me know and I will fix it quickly. 🎮Read full article on Community Announcements (EFFECT STUDIO)AnnouncementsOfficial
🔥 Important news for all LIFE EFFECT players 🔥
Hello everyone 🤝I want to share some very important and good news for the entire LIFE EFFECT community.In recent months, there has been a difficult situation around the project related to two pages of the game on Steam. All this time, my main task has been to protect the interests of the players who supported LIFE EFFECT before, and to make sure that they do not lose access to future updates and development of the project.Today I am pleased to announce that, together with Steam, we have managed to find a solution.What has changed? 🏆The original version of the game LIFE EFFECT (AppID 2191050) has received the status of Retired Version and is no longer the main version of the project.The official and actively supported version of the game is now:🚀LIFE EFFECT Survival (AppID 4474950)🚀This particular version is on my personal developer and publisher account, where I continue to work on the game. All future updates, bug fixes, events, new content and further development of the project will be published here.Important for players of the old versionThroughout the whole process, it was especially important for me not to leave without the support of players who once purchased LIFE EFFECT on the old Steam page.I contacted Steam with a request to help these players keep access to the current version of the game and continue to receive all future content.I am very glad to inform you that Steam helped resolve this issue.All owners of LIFE EFFECT (AppID 2191050) have received free access to LIFE EFFECT Survival (AppID 4474950).This means that if you bought the game on the old page, you can now play the new current version and receive all future updates without having to buy the game again.🎉 Thank you 🎉I would like to sincerely thank everyone who supported the project during this difficult period.Many of you followed the development of the situation, helped spread the word, supported the game and did not lose faith in the project even when its future remained uncertain.As a single...Read full article on Community Announcements (EFFECT STUDIO)AnnouncementsOfficial
Exchange of cards for exclusive content v.0.46
Greetings, friends! In this update, I added the ability to exchange mined cards for items such as vehicles, skins. Next, I'll add companions, weapons, and other interesting exclusive items.A terminal has been added to the bar where you can exchange your cards for exclusive skins. The list of skins will be updated with the development of the game and the addition of content to it. Follow the news so you don't miss it. Similar terminals will be located in different places in the game to match the style and meaning of the items that will be available for exchange. For example, the terminal in the bar gives you NPC skins of the civilian sector and the bar.At the location of the underground fortification, in the transport purchase terminal, the ability to exchange fortification assistance cards for transport has been added.For information: various cards can be obtained in the game by completing NPC quests, participating in events, sweepstakes, finding secrets and Easter eggs, or buying.I'm still working on the game and preparing new content. I want to say thank you to the players who talk about bugs and share their ideas and suggestions. Have a good game, there are many more adventures ahead!Read full article on Community Announcements (EFFECT STUDIO)
