'The exhaustion on screen is 100% real': the solo dev of this 'live-action' survival game spent 40 grueling days alone in the wilderness to create it

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If you've grown a bit weary of survival games where a stick and a rock can automagically be combined to make a tree-felling axe and you can build a comfortable base in a matter of minutes, how about something a bit more authentic?

Wordless Forest is a FMV (Full Motion Video) survival game that could wind up feeling more realistic than most of what you'll find on Steam—because its creator actually went out into the woods for weeks on end to make it. Solo developer Dogus Cagrici both stars in the game and recorded all the footage himself while hiking alone deep in the real wilderness.

That makes the creation of the game sound like a survival experience in itself, with Cagrici recording footage of himself "in the dense forests and wilderness of four different cities across Turkey for 40 days. Without a production vehicle, I hiked for kilometers carrying heavy camera gear on my back just to reach remote locations," Cagrici says.

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