Far Cry 3 Survival Mode: Best wilderness/island survival game with guns

Have you ever dreamed of crashing in a tropical island, and you find foods and live there? I do, a lot. If you have a PC, you can play The Forest or Stranded II or some other survival games, but you may want to have guns and see more various wild animals. Far Cry 3 can be that survival game and it has one of the best graphics.

This, my suggestion of 'survival mode' doesn't need any mod files or special add-ons. Simply, it is not to load a previous game when you die. If you die, that's it, you're dead. If you want to play it again, you start a game from the beginning. Of course, you don't start an actual new game, but you load a fresh-start save file which will be explained later in this article. This simple 'permanent death' rule changes everything in the game.

You will know how dangerous it is to kill a small pack of dogs even if you have a gun, and how easy it is to die. You think you can shoot down 2 enemies but your gun sound brings another enemy and you die. You will die and start over several times in the first hour. Was this game this hard? You will feel deep frustration, anger, and even agony to lose all your belongings and start again. How dumb I am to do the exact same mistake over and over, and expect somehow not to fall this time?

If you keep dying and trying again, meaning if you can bear the pain, you will understand that no great guns can save you from death, but your complete, utter concentration at the moment can keep you safe, and... still, you die again. You understand any money or high level of skills are all meaningless when you die. And you may understand that completing goals in your mind is not important, but the journey itself, the ground you are standing, the view of the island you are seeing, the 'now' is meaningful. You are there, totally. It is near impossible to achieve any big goals anyway.

Try it for yourself.

And here is how to prepare fresh-start save file. First, start a new game, watch the prologue scene, and complete the tutorial mission. And save the game, and exit it. If you play it via Steam, your save file will be in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\a54e9b95-1446-443f-8323-17743de6fcc4\46
In the folder, '1.save' is the save file if you selected '1' as your save game slot. FYI, '5.save' is the auto-save file. Make a copy of '1.save' for later use (make a backup). When you die in the game, quit the game and re-start the game and load '1'. If '1' save file is changed for any reason, you can delete it and copy from your backup file.

And I recommend Ziggy's mod, which gives you more immersion, challenge, and freedom. In Google, search for 'Ziggy's mod Far Cry 3', which will direct you to Nexus mods web page.

My related post: Far Cry 3 Survival Mode: A Guide to Survive