Depends. I’d love a historical survival game set in the early 1500s Central America. A Spanish survivor of a shipwreck needs to find shelter, survive encounters with natives, find other Spanish adventurers and together build colonies, fight off angry local wildlife, etc. Eventually make contact with more established colonies, such as Havana, to trade gold and treasures for supplies, weapons etc.

I’m thinking something like the story of Gerónimo de Aguilar, who shipwrecked on the Yucatan coast and spent over seven years as a slave for the Mayas, learned the local customs and language, and was later rescued by none other than Hernan Cortés who hired him as an interpreter for his Mexican expedition/conquest. Or Aguilar’s less well-known comrade Gonzalo Guerrero, who “went native” and actually rejected Cortes’s offer to join his party, married a Maya woman, becoming a full member of the local tribe and apparently fighting alongside his new family against the Spanish invaders.

It’s a really interesting, brutal and dramatic era and setting that would, in my opinion, make a good survival game.

(All that said, I really, really like Conan.)

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