After more than 12 hours with Survival Kids on Switch 2, I think it is a puzzle platform affable to children, which is straightforward and satisfying parts

Nintendo Switch 2 finally came and with it, so you have a handful of premiere games. Some ancient, some recent, and some, well, land somewhere between these two categories.

To get to know Survival of childrenPlatformówka Cooperative, built on Konami Game Boy bones from 1999 with the same name, and developed by The Minds Behind the Popular Popular Engine Unity. Its creation is a bite, but when it comes to the reality of the game itself, it is very straightforward – maybe too straightforward.

IN Survival of childrenYou play as (you guessed) a kid who, after he was overturned in a mythical storm, has to go to the archaic archipelago in the hope of escaping.

The return of this classic configuration of survival lies in the fact that the islands themselves are not stationary and in reality they are living turtles that can cause flooding of the islands. Although this is an engaging premise, Survival of children He undertakes to a more free style of play, and immersion occurs only when the player is ready. This is a reasonable choice for a game built for a younger demographic group – I regret that there were not many game modes for players of all ages or those who may be more expert.

As you progress, you will discover recent biomes and take cluttered environmental threats, such as tower tower and aerodynamic tunnels, using tools such as fishing, trampolines and comically vast leaf fans to them best. Like the premise, the levels are similarly straightforward and sometimes offer more burdening of mindless tasks to perform with friends or yourself.

Rinse and repeat

Every level Survival of children It starts with an overpower, and players are wrong on the shore of the recent island. From this moment, the purpose of the game is to consolidate resources and move the base camp to the highest point where you will build a raft and start the cycle again.

The parts needed to complete this objective range from easily accessible vines and stones (which can be used by chopping trees or mining rocks) to the hidden wings of the aircraft and semi -buried parts of the propeller. Under no circumstances is it as elaborate as something like Astro Bot, but the variety of islands and platform challenges in them were diverse enough to provide me with entertainment when I continued exploration.

Instead of all high challenges or punishment, the biggest antagonist you face here is your strength, which decides how far you can climb the climbing net and whether you can discover objects. To escalate strength, you need to find and cook food, making sure that you do not burn a valuable meal in a camp for cooking the camp, leaving it on a broken hobby. The more food you load into a pot, the better the quality of the meal, ensuring extremely valuable strength.

In addition to staying fed, there are really no rates he talks about. Sure, you can fall off the cliff and lose your items or not come up with fish. But you can just come back and raise them again or just throw the line on the same fish for the second time.

You are never really punished for your mistakes in any significant way, which has its advantages and disadvantages. Maintaining the available load and forgiveness, Survival of children He feels like a great introductory game for children, which may not be familiar with the species of survival. Sometimes it seems that he underestimates what younger players are capable of, especially if you consider alternatives on the market, such as Nintendo, a properly complex challenge Super Mario Odyssey.

After completing the level, you earn stars depending on how quickly you escaped to the island or how many collectors – called tax stones – found during the process. At first, these stars mean little and you can think about the game – without asking questions. However, when at the end, there is a good chance to visit the island again, to collect a few more to outweigh some gates in the scope of stars’ progress.

Having little more to stop, Survival of children He often feels a bit arid and he lacks personality to really impress his trail. He says something that even a strange British narrator can’t raise the tone. In fact, their conversation quickly began.

Play chilly

Between the jump of the island you will also have the opportunity to adapt your cartoon avatar to choose a kitschy flaws. At the beginning there is no vast variety, but there is a lot to distinguish you among the cooperative’s colleagues, and it is good to improve the hair color, skin tone and eye scenario before jumping to the level. Fortunately, this compact group of costumes is only a jumping point and you can unlock more by filling out layered challenges during the game.

In addition to meeting the necessary craft criteria, you can perform optional tasks, such as fishing ten times in a row or cooking with a number of ingredients in a pot. By achieving these optional goals, you can unlock thematic costumes to drive a mini-me. Many people will be achieved automatically during the game, but at least I am pleased to have something else to shoot except the restrictions of a repetitive campaign.

Survival of children You can play one player mode, but it’s just not as witty as you play with friends. In addition to helping in accumulating loot, the most witty I had antagonizing, and then antagonized by my cooperative partner. Once upon a time I led my co -existing to the aerodynamic tunnel, where they were blown into oblivion.

The consistency was that after spending the centuries of fishing and cooking a delicious meal, they threw him out of the edge of my range. When playing solo, airy interactions are not possible, and instead you remain with the load.

It is obvious that in solo mode it was tried to scale things and make levels more affordable, for example, reducing the strength needed to pull up the objects. Unfortunately, it still does not compensate for the tedious nature of performing the tasks themselves.

Playing at later levels in the game, I felt frustrated, and not the turrets shoot me from the map, but rather lifeless nature of the pram materials there and back without aid. It is admirable that the team in Unity wanted to give players solo, but does not reflect justice, of course, the common aspects at the root Survival of children“The game loop.

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Availability functions

IN Survival of childrenYou can access the settings menu from the main menu or at any time in the game by pressing the Pause button and selecting the Options button.

From here, you can turn on and off the inscriptions and levels, as well as the level arrows and banners. In the control, you can switch between two system options. When it comes to sound, you can use incremental cutouts to adapt music, SFX and narrative volume.

How I reviewed the survival children

I played Survival of children“The main campaign over twelve hours in a one player mixture, local cooperative and online cooperation.

I used the Switch 2 console in both portable and robbed modes. After the task I used a 55-inch LG OLED C2 TV, without an additional sound or external speakers system.

For the first time, June 2025 was reviewed