When comparing Grave vs The Fifth Day, the Slant community recommends The Fifth Day for most people. In the question“What are the best single player & open world survival-horror games on the PC with a focus on base building?” The Fifth Day is ranked 16th while Grave is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose The Fifth Day is:
A command prompt is used in game during the hacking of robots, giving a cool real like feel to the feature.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Surrealist world that changes every night
The world changes on every passing night giving the game a unique and original twist.
Pro Light based fighting
All weapons in game are light based and used to fight darkness.
Pro Day and night cycle
There is a day/night cycle in Grave, with the night time events being different in that there are new regions that are able to be explored as well as different dangers awaiting.
Pro Survive the Night Mode
Survive the Night Mode has been added as a gameplay option, though it does cost $10 currently.
Pro Oculus Rift support
There is built in support for the Oculus Rift.
Pro Hacking system that feels real
A command prompt is used in game during the hacking of robots, giving a cool real like feel to the feature.
Pro Good crafting system
Crafting seems to be the main goal in The Fifth Day, using things found through scavenging and hacking the player can the start building shelters, which is the key to survival.
Cons
Con Not released yet
Grave is not released yet with no publish date set. A demo is available to the backers of its Kickstarter.
Con Jarring volume levels
Being an early access game, there is no music yet which means vast moments of only low level ambient environmental sounds to then be contrasted with extremely loud encounters.
Con Lots of walking
Like most open world survival games, there is a lot of walking in what is mostly an empty world.
Con Might be abandoned
Developer has abandoned this game. Not a single update for months and no information on the status of development.