When comparing The Culling vs Die Young, the Slant community recommends The Culling for most people. In the question“What are the best adventure games on PC?” The Culling is ranked 26th while Die Young is ranked 29th. The most important reason people chose The Culling is:
Much like the movies The Hunger Games or Battle Royale (and a lesser extent Running Man), this game blends survival gameplay in with a game-show aspect of last man standing. While not new ideas in and of themselves, this is the first game to really capitalize on a current popular trend of similar movies and books.
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Pros
Pro Takes a popular concept and blends it with survival games
Much like the movies The Hunger Games or Battle Royale (and a lesser extent Running Man), this game blends survival gameplay in with a game-show aspect of last man standing. While not new ideas in and of themselves, this is the first game to really capitalize on a current popular trend of similar movies and books.
Pro Realistic game mechanics
Developers of Die Young tried to make the protagonist of the game as human as possible. Not only do you have limited health, running and jumping diminishes your stamina, shoes improve your moving speed and weapons immensly increase your chances to survive confrontations.
Pro Enjoyable parkour gameplay
Die Young has lots of parkour that you get to do while exploring the island. The parkour mechanics are really well-done -- the controls are fluid and it's easy to master. The parts of the map that you can grab are easy to notice since they have white paint on them.
Timing is of essence when doing parkour. There are some long-distance jumps where you have to calculate your timing in order to avoid falling to your death.
Pro Lots of side missions
Besides the main storyline, there are quite a lot of fun side missions that can be found while exploring around the island.
Pro Interesting story premise
The player plays as a young womand who has been kidnapped and is stranded on this Mediterranean island without knowing how or why. You need to find a way to survive and escape. Curiosity to know more about what happened or what this island is drives the player to explore the island and find more about it and the story of why you were kidnapped.
Pro Great Mediterranean setting
The game is set in a gorgeous Mediterranean island filled with rich history waiting to be explored and pieced together by gathering various information from NPCs or items scattered around.
Cons
Con Humor repeats itself too much
The bit of humor the game offers is a bit broad and is repeated too much, meaning that it is easy to get bored or tired of it pretty quick.
Con You have to re-craft tools annoyingly often
The tools you need to fight and craft other tools have limited durability and you need to craft them often. This wouldn't really be an issue since the crafting system is well-done except for the fact that items usually have very little durability and you will often find yourself re-crafting tools which can become annoying in the long run.