These spaces are integral because some materials can’t be crafted, and these also serve as a murder hotspot for traitors if you decide to travel with the wrong person. Gathering materials for the goals is done not only through harvesting and crafting, but finding safehouses and crates as well. One wrong fight as the traitor and that’s it, even without getting exiled. This adds a level of danger to the traitors as well, as you need to really pick your targets carefully or flat out outnumber them. Since you can make pickaxes and axes to harvest resources, you’re actually able to defend yourself against a possible traitor attack. What’s most interesting to me is that the survivors can arm themselves as well. This adds a risk factor if you’re far from camp and are running low, and there’s the possibility of encountering a traitor. By returning to the cabin and cooking the berries and meat, you create better versions of the food to either eat or share. Foraging for berries and killing animals are both ways to get immediate food, but this is not the optimal way to restore those meters. Gathering materials is incredibly important for completing objectives (or crafting weapons) and that uses up both warmth and hunger. This is a frozen environment, so keeping warm is of the utmost priority. Project Winter is a survival game in the strictest sense as well, you’re meant to manage your health, hunger, and warmth. The real differences start as soon as you start the game, most notably your health bar and resource bars. Everything you’d expect from the genre, survivors meant to complete tasks and traitors meant to kill the survivors by any means necessary. Project Winter is a survival game played by two teams, the survivors and the traitors. By introducing new concepts and dynamic goals in a map that at times has limited visibility, along with resource management, Project Winter sets itself aside as a refreshing step in a new direction, albeit a more intensive one. Project Winter is a much more involved but equally devious game, pitting survivors against each other in a frigid climate with much to manage, not to mention the traitors lurking among the group. In the wake of the viral hit Among Us shaking up quarantine life with the funniest forms of deceit possible in a closed off world, there is a much colder contender that looks to do the same.