What makes it a survival game? As far as I remember it has no survival game mechanics that is usually associated with the genre. It has an open world to explore, but I would call it an action adventure game more than anything else.

It is good, though, I think it is under-rated. it has a little slow start, which may turn someone off, but becomes really good if you stick with it

I'm not sure I have not played it yet. But I see it has the survival tag and a feature it lists is a "survival mode"

I don't own the game, but after reading these statements on the game's store page:

- Scavenge through abandoned settlements for equipment to craft valuable items and weapons, or
- take your chances with other survivors trying to eke out a living through fair trade… or more violent means.
- Explore a variety of mountains, caves, mines and small rural towns
- Brutal encounters: With vicious gangs and hordes of Freakers roaming the land
- make full use of a variety of customizable traps, weapons, and upgradable skills to stay alive

I'd say it checks a lot of the "Survival Sim" boxes.

would you call for example Fallout: New Vegas a survival game?

In the broadest sense - sure.

Technically with all the genre pollution that goes on (like visual novels claiming to be RPGs), you could make a case for any game being a survival sim if 1) there is stuff is trying to murder you and 2) there are resources for you to manage. Except that we all know that you're the guy that wrongly thinks that the only way to have fun and enjoy a game is to complete a checklist of achievements to the extent that all games without achievements need to just go away when it's not hard to shop around the stuff that you don't want.

the the genre is starting to lose meaning. Heck, you could arge that Final Fantasy 8 is a survival game as wwell

All genres lost meaning long time ago.

then it really makes no sense fo you to argue that any game is survival or not.

Erm...I never argued over that, one way or the other..?

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_are_there_so_few_survival_sims_on_gog/post18

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/why_are_there_so_few_survival_sims_on_gog/post20

No clue, as to where you see me arguing in these posts.

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(Somehow my post ended up on two threads...)

I don't think you've looked hard enough.

I love survival games, and GOG have or have had quite a lot, and of different types.
Plenty of Horror based Survival games for instance.
Plenty of post apocalyptic ones.
Zombie ones even.
etc etc.