Stereotypically you play videogames for enjoyment, escapism, and to indulge some kind of impossible fantasy, and by that metric, survival sims like The Long Dark and Sons of the Forest shouldn’t be popular. These are brutal, unforgiving games where the merest mistake can mean death, and actions that we normally take for granted, like exploration and building, require meticulous planning. But creativity flows through narrow pipes - Don’t Starve and its contemporaries work so well because, rather than curtail your imagination and engagement, those impulses are channelled, directed. Inspired by some of the all-time greats, Angst is a new Steam survival game available to play now for the first time, and PCGamesN has an exclusive look at its brutal but beautiful world. Continue reading Sons of the Forest and Don’t Starve inspire new co-op survival game Angst MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best survival games, Best co-op games, Best upcoming PC games