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Summary

Terminator: Survivors offers a unique sci-fi twist on the survival genre, allowing players to face off against Skynet's robotic forces.
Players can likely expect to utilize advanced technology like explosives, laser-based firearms, and more to combat the Terminator machines.
With a focus on teamwork and base-building, Terminator: Survivors introduces a fresh challenge for survival game enthusiasts.

In today’s gaming world, survival games are a dime a dozen, with numerous games available on multiple platforms for players to experience an engaging, creative, and potentially stressful survival scenario. Despite the presence of these already popular survival games, many game studios are still trying to make their mark in the survival game genre, including Nacon Studio Milan’s upcoming Terminator: Survivors. What Terminator: Survivors has to stand out among the survival crowd is its worldwide film brand appeal and a more science fiction focus on the survival genre.

Developer Nacon has announced a significant delay for Terminator: Survivors

Terminator: Survivors Hit With Big Delay

Fans eagerly awaiting the release of Terminator: Survivors will have to exercise some patience as developer Nacon announces a significant delay.

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By José V. Rossi

Terminator: Survivors Explained

Primarily based on James Cameron’s 1984 The Terminator and 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day films, Survivors is set four years after Judgment Day, the event where the artificial intelligence Skynet became self-aware and nuked the world. Here, players will embody one of the few human survivors struggling to survive in the post-apocalyptic, machine-controlled United States. Players won’t have to struggle alone like 2019’s Terminator: Resistance, however, as Survivors can be played in co-op with up to three friends to make the robotic apocalypse a bit more comfortable. Together or solo, Survivors’ objective is to gather resources and establish a base of operations to help rescue other fledgling humans.

Threats against this new settlement will remain persistent as players scavenge the nuclear wasteland. Similar to the Fallout series, certain areas of Terminator: Survivors will be highly radioactive and can potentially harm players if they venture too close or consume radiative food and water. Beyond the environment, players may encounter other hostile groups of survivors and scavengers who have their own unique views on Skynet and the origins of the apocalypse. Finally, players will have to remain on alert for the titular, skeleton-like terminator machines as they constantly roam the landscape searching for human survivors to terminate.

Terminator: Survivors is the fourth game Nacon Studio Milan has developed, with previous titles being 2018’s Another Sight, 2021’s RiMS Racing, and 2023’s TT Isle Of Man: Ride on the Edge 3.

Terminator: Survivors’ Technological Advantages

For most survival games such as Minecraft and The Forest, players are usually dropped in a wilderness with only their wits and crafting knowledge available to help them survive. Even after living in these barren landscapes for a while and building their own bases, most of these games will still keep players relatively machine-free save for railroads and a few firearms. While players may encounter some hidden, complex facilities, oftentimes they're unable to bring any of that complex technology back with them to improve their base. This is usually intended to keep players on their toes or force them to come up with strategies to upgrade their residence and defend themselves.

With Terminator: Survivors having near-invulnerable machines as their primary enemy, players may already have access to more complex technology than they normally would in other survival games. Based on the future scenes depicted in Terminator 1 and 2, survivors will most likely be able to craft and utilize large explosives, laser-based firearms, rocket launchers, scanners, flashlights, and radios. Terminator: Survivors’ Aftermath trailer has already depicted a pair of survivors driving a car and using a machine gun and shotgun while scavenging for fuel. Presumably, players would be able to take down terminators and use their parts to craft new technology or upgrade existing contraptions such as traps and life-improving appliances.

Potential Hostile Machines in Terminator: Survivors

Since Terminator: Survivors is based primarily on Terminator 1 and 2, the kinds of machines players can encounter in the game may be limited compared to other machines seen in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, and so on. Presumably, players could encounter the flying and tank-like Hunter-Killer machines as both appear in the first two films. Trailers for Survivors have already shown the classic T-800 in action, but a piece of concept art from Nacon depicted a group of survivors being attacked by a swarm of small, spider-like robots. It’s currently unknown what these machines are called exactly in Terminator: Survivors, but they may be variants of the spider mine machines seen in the 2010 Terminator Salvation arcade game.