Run, fight, craft, build, eat, survive. Cooperate or kill. But why? Joel and Tim begin to look at games that answer this question satisfactorily, and ones that don't.

Games mentioned:

• Dwarf fortress
• Valheim
• DayZ
• Rust
• Fallout
• Deus Ex
• The Forest
• Ark: Survival Evolved
• Subnautica
• Eco
• Neo Scavenger
• The Long Dark