Which Survivor Are You?

You treat the frozen city as a warehouse that happens to be cold.

Scavengers win by converting salvage into progress faster than the cold converts progress into corpses. Your bottleneck is never opportunity — it is always weight and decisions. The single habit that separates good Scavengers from dead ones is knowing your drop threshold before you pick something up.

• Highest salvage-per-hour of any playstyle
• Turns ruined areas other players skip into profit
• Keeps a 4-player group supplied on their own

Watch out: Greed. Every Scavenger run ends the same way — one more building. Set a weight limit and honour it.

In co-op: Best paired with a Pathfinder who routes you between dense salvage sites instead of wandering.

You do not survive the winter — you outlast it behind a door you fixed.

Builders convert today's salvage into tomorrow's safety margin. Permafrost lets you repair abandoned shelters or raise your own, and the difference between the two is whether you are spending time or spending materials. Your job is turning a cold stop into a warm one — and a warm stop is what makes every other playstyle viable.

• Only playstyle that compounds — a finished base pays out forever
• Makes the group immune to bad weather RNG
• Controls where the group respawns from, literally

Watch out: Over-building. A base that is never finished is worse than a lean-to that is.

In co-op: You are the anchor. Pair with a Hunter who brings in the hides your insulation depends on.

Every threat in the snow is also a resource. You just have to get there first.

Hunters are the only playstyle that converts danger into supplies. Wildlife and hostile survivors are both material sources — hides, food, and territory. The cost is that you operate furthest from safety, which makes the dog companion less a pet and more a piece of equipment: it scouts, it alarms, and it carries.

• Converts threats into hides and food rather than just avoiding them
• Unlocks insulation tiers the other playstyles have to trade for
• Holds territory so the Builder can work in peace

Watch out: Distance. You die further from a fire than anyone else. Always know which shelter is closest.

In co-op: Essential in a 4-stack. Feed a Builder and the whole group stops freezing.

You are never lost, which means you are never late, which means you are never dead.

Pathfinders win on information. In a game where exposure is a timer, knowing the route is worth more than any single piece of gear. You are the reason a group finishes a salvage loop with minutes to spare instead of freezing halfway home — and the reason nobody wastes a day walking to somewhere already stripped.

• Removes the single biggest run-ender: not knowing where you are
• Turns repeated trips into a reliable circuit
• Finds the biomes worth farming before anyone else does

Watch out: Analysis as avoidance. Mapping is only useful if someone then walks the route.

In co-op: You make the other three efficient. Lead a Scavenger and your group clears twice the ground.