History VideoGame / Unturned

* InterfaceScrew: Your color vision fades when you're low on health.

* SaveScumming: Items respawn when you reload the game. You can feasibly load in and out of the game to try and find something you need.
* SprintMeter: The stamina bar controls running, jumping, and your ability to make power attacks. There are three food items that can restore your stamina: energy drinks, granola bars, and potato chips.
* StarterEquipment: You get a chocolate bar, apple juice, and a flashlight on easy mode. Otherwise averted and you start with absolutely nothing.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: And water too. You'll need to eat and drink to stay alive, starvation or dehydration will cause you to rapidly lose health. Fortunately, there is plenty of food and water on PEI, found in abandoned houses, cafes, and markets. Unfortunately most of it has spoiled and eating it will increase your sickness bar.

* AnAxeToGrind: Choice of two: a basic axe and a fire axe. The fire axe is less common but also a complete upgrade from the axe. Both can be turned against trees to get lumber for crafting.

* ChainsawGood: What self-respecting zombie game doesn't have a chainsaw? It's noisy and ''individual'' hits are weak but it automatically attacks very quickly. ''Unturned'' gives it a special power rarely seen in video games: ''its intended purpose of cutting wood''.

'''''Unturned''''' is a 2014 SurvivalSandbox game by Creator/NelsonSexton.

* TheAllSeeingAI: Once you've been detected, the zombies are extremely hard to shake and will home in on your location regardless of line of sight or sound. Stand on top of a hangar with a horde of zombies chasing you at the northwest corner, crawl over the top to the southeast corner and watch the horde run around or through the building to your position.
** As of 3.0, it gets even worse during [[{{Lunacy}} a full moon]], because the zombies can sense you from a long ways off, through walls.

* ArtificialStupidity: Zombies can't jump or swim. You can hop through a broken window and watch a train of zombies run within arm's reach heading for the door. You can stand on top of a car or tread water just inches from a horde of zombies and all they'll do is mill around.
** 3.0 fixes this, slightly: zombies can now path through windows, though they still can't swim or climb ladders. And they also now seem to refuse to travel past a border around the towns, preventing them from chasing the player through the countryside.

* TrickBomb: Smoke grenades create distracting clouds of smoke that attract nearby zombies.

* GuideDangIt: Often necessary when attempting to figure out the in-game crafting system. Made all the more difficult due to a limited inventory.
** Subverted in version 3, where similar to {{Terraria}}; or the non-PC versions of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', the crafting system tells you what you can build with what you have on hand or if you have a portion of the required materials.

* RespawningEnemies: Enemies will respawn whenever you load into the game. Perhaps even ''right beside you''.
** In version 3, this is [[UptoEleven taken up to 11]], since zombies with respawn periodically, and they can also spawn ''right next to you''. Thankfully, items respawn as well.

** Subverted in version 3, where similar to {{Terraria}}; or the non-PC versions of {{Minecraft}}, the crafting system tells you what you can build with what you have on hand or if you have a portion of the required materials.

* HealThyself: You heal with medical supplies found around PEI. The supplies vary from make-shift rag bandages that recover a tiny ammount of health to full medkits that restore half your health, reduces sickness, and cures the bleeding and broken leg debuffs. Unlike most games, there is an animation when your heal yourself, like applying bandages to your arm or giving a morphine shot.

* InventoryManagementPuzzle: You start the game butt naked with four inventory slots. A can of soda weighs less than a Timberwolf sniper rifle but takes the same amount of inventory space. Finding a backpack is critical, and even then you'll quickly run out of space with the sheer amount of supplies in the game. ''Especially'' when trying to craft, as a handful of screws takes the same inventory space as a assembled wooden door.

* LevelMapDisplay: The PEI Map is a rare item that will show your location on the island with a red cross. You will need light to read the map and it will obscure your vision while you're using it.

* FridgeLogic: The title could be a reference to other zombie apocalypse games, because no matter how good a survivor you are, you don't make a difference to the world. It could also obviously reference the fact that you're immune to being infected and becoming a zombie is commonly called ''turning'' in many zombie games.

* StarterEquipment: Played straight on easy mode[[note]]You get a chocolate bar, apple juice, and a flashlight.[[/note]], but otherwise averted.

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'''Unturned''' is a 2014 SurvivalSandbox game by Creator/NelsonSexton.

Currently in Early Access on {{Steam}}.

* FridgeLogic: The title could be a reference to other zombie apocalypse games, because no matter how good a survivor you are, you don't make a difference to the world.
It could also obviously reference the fact that you're immune to being infected and becoming a zombie is commonly called ''turning'' in many zombie games.

* FryingPanOfDoom: A Frying Pan is a common weapon on PEI, and it's described as "Standard Military Weaponry"

''Unturned'' is a 2014 SurvivalSandbox game by Creator/NelsonSexton.

''Unturned'' is a 2014 survival sandbox game by Creator/NelsonSexton.

* VirtualPaperDoll: Nearly all clothing is purely cosmetic and there are many different outfits to choose from.

* NintendoHard: You start a game with nothing, inventory is limited, supplies are scarse, and zombies are legion. You'll become hungry, thirsty, can succumb to sickness, and that's assuming the zombies don't eat you first. There are also no doors to be found so buildings are no shelter until you fortify them yourself.

* HandCannon: The Magnum and the Desert Falcon do nearly twice the damage of the other two pistols. The game's Hand Cannons are modeled after two popular RealLife guns--the famous Smith & Wesson .44 magnum revolvers and the Desert Eagle, respectively.

* MacGyvering: Some weapon attachments can be improvised using some rather unorthodox materials. For instance, using two tin cans and two cans of cola (cooked over a fire, for some reason), you can make an improvised silencer called the 'Muffler'. Another example is an improvised scope made out of a pair of binoculars and some duct tape which has a fairly high zoom level but no reticule.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Light-weight, fast, and powerful, but rare.

* StarterEquipment: Averted with ''none''. You're naked and unarmed. Have fun being chased by zombies.

* GuideDangIt: The Crafting System, due to the game itself providing no prompts or clues for crafting recipies outside of trial and error. Good luck building a house without knowing what combination of plates, frames, supports, crosses and pillars are required to make each segment.