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Game Overview

Survival Kids is one of those Game Boy Color games that sticks with you—mostly because you’ll spend half your time panicking about whether to eat that suspicious mushroom or save it for later. You wake up shipwrecked on this weirdly beautiful island, and suddenly, everything’s a life-or-death decision. Do you spend the day building a shelter, or risk exploring that cave full of… whatever’s making those noises?

The pixel art somehow makes chopping down trees and starting fires feel oddly satisfying, and the puzzles are just the right kind of frustrating—like when you realize you needed to combine that random stick with a rock three hours ago. There are multiple endings, too, so good luck figuring out how to actually escape instead of just becoming a professional berry forager.

It’s got that classic late-’90s charm where the game doesn’t hold your hand, and yeah, you might starve a few times before you get the hang of it. But that’s part of the fun. If you ever wanted to test your survival skills in a world where everything wants to kill you (including your own bad decisions), this is the game for you.