WW2: Bunker Simulator

by Aethyna Dec 27, 2021 | 1 Votes | 71 Played | 0 Reviews

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Art Games Studio WW2 Bunker Simulator puts you into the shoes of an American soldier who saw an opportunity to take over a sparsely occupied German bunker while behind enemy lines and hold it until reinforcements arrive. Defend your bunker, tend to its maintenance, explore its surroundings, and of course, make sure you survive. Play Now Similar Games

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Summary

WW2 Bunker Simulator puts you into the shoes of an American soldier who saw an opportunity to take over a sparsely occupied German bunker while behind enemy lines and hold it until reinforcements arrive. In this simulator, not only will you have to defend your bunker from German soldiers who are hellbent on retaking their bunker, you’ll also have to take care of your own needs, tend to the bunker’s maintenance, and during the lull in between attacks, venture away from your bunker to explore its beautiful surroundings… who knows? You might just find some precious supplies!

Plotline

Play as an American soldier during World War 2, you’ve found yourself behind enemy lines alone. Most soldiers at this point would try to find somewhere to hide until help arrives, but not you!

Spotting a German bunker nearby, you’ve decided to single-handedly take over the bunker and use the radio transmitter within to call for help. Reinforcements will take some time to arrive – it’s war after all! – and it’s up to you to defend the bunker while keeping yourself alive until they do.

Gameplay

Being a simulator, the game focuses more on the survival aspect of the gameplay and the more mundane “routine stuff” rather than having constant action – shooting and whatnots – like an action game. This includes stuff like chopping firewood, cooking food with whatever meager supplies you can gather, repairing and cleaning guns, and of course, sleeping at the end of the day.

That being said, the game isn’t at all an “aimless” game. Every day, you can head over to the radio transmitter to ask for instructions from your superiors. The game will have you decode the radio messages using Morse code via a fun mini-game to reveal your mission for the day. From time to time, you may even be asked to send a message back by typing in some Morse code yourself.

Completing whatever they asked for will grant you a nice “care package” which can be very helpful to ensuring your survival, especially once food gets increasingly sparse. However, you can choose to ignore the daily missions and do your own thing if you want. For more supplies, especially logs which you’ll need to get firewood, you can also venture away from the safety of your bunker to explore its surroundings. You might even stumble upon some free supplies if you look hard enough!

If you have the means to do so, you can also try taking on attack convoys that pass by the area or try getting to a supply drop without getting yourself killed. Don’t forget to loot the corpses of enemies you’ve killed as well. They usually carry some helpful stuff. If there are a lot of stuff, here’s a tip that might help – there’s a green crate that you can pick up in the game. You can “throw” stuff into it and then carry the crate back to the bunker. However, it’s fairly small so it’s best to put in smaller items like food.

As mentioned before, survival is also part and parcel of the gameplay. This means making sure your character is well-fed, well-watered, and has enough energy to do a whole lot of tasks, thanks to getting enough sleep.

For food, you can eat food raw, which doesn’t really satiate your hunger much, or you can choose to cook some delicious meals by mixing the ingredients at the pan or pot on the stove. There are many recipes you can follow in the recipe book provided. However, to make this work, you’ll need to have enough firewood – you can always get more by finding logs outside the bunker and splitting them at the chopping block. You’ll also need to hit the blue stripe in the cooking mini-game just so you could stir the pot or pan at the exact right moment.

Water is a bit easier. You can refill your water flask with water directly from the tap, which IMHO isn’t exactly very hygienic. Once you’ve figured out that the kettle can be placed anywhere on the stone tabletop near to the stove to tap into the heat from the fireplaces below, you can even mix up a cuppa by mixing hot water with coffee or tea from their respective tins. Drinks, other than water, will restore a small amount of energy in addition to satisfying your thirst.

Of course, despite not being the main focus in this game, combat is something you can expect here. The game comes with several different guns that you can use to defend the bunker from the Germans, including an anti-air gun and an anti-tank gun located just outside the bunker. The enemies will be focusing on destroying your radio transmitter, your sole means of communication with your “side”, rather than you so you’ll need to keep this in mind. If the transmitter is destroyed, you’ll be rendered helpless and the game will be over.

As with most simulators, there’s more to gunplay and simply running and gunning. You’ll need to make sure your guns are kept in good condition and cleaned regularly or they will jam up at the most inconvenient of moments. This is where the helpful Weapon Condition interface comes in. It shows you if a gun needs to be cleaned, reloaded with fresh ammo, and repaired, allowing you to more easily maintain the guns around the bunker.

Unfortunately, due to having no map or indicators, I didn’t know where a certain turret is in the bunker. Even if I found a turret, I wouldn’t know if it’s a “T”, an “R1” or “R2” turret as indicated by the Weapon Condition interface. If there’s a button or something on the interface that I could click to produce an arrow indicator directing me to the turret in question, that would definitely be a lot better, though probably less realistic. As you progress, you’ll get to do a whole lot of other stuff as well, including building a barricade using sandbags and placing landmines on the road to ambush convoys.

At one point in the game, you’ll even get an AI companion to help you. Before you jump up in joy, you should know that this AI is pretty dumb. He’s completely useless in combat due to poor aim and isn’t very clever doing anything that’s not repetitive work. This is why it’s best to just put him to the task at the chopping block, if you need firewood, or shoveling debris in the collapsed room to get the supplies buried underneath. Note that even with repetitive tasks, you still need to keep a close eye on your companion lest he decides to glitch out and stop whatever he’s doing.

There’s also this weird invisible wall preventing me from silently stabbing the dancing Nazi soldier to death, forcing me to waste precious bullets. It’s not a biggie but it did make me feel a little annoyed.

Community

This is a single-player game so there’s really no community aspect to it. However, considering the different kinds of chores you could do around the place and the fact that you get an AI companion, it would be great if the devs add in a co-op feature where players can try to survive in the bunker with a buddy or two.

Graphics/ Sound

The graphics in WW2 Bunker Simulator are pretty amazing. It may not be top-notch but it’s not too shabby either, allowing the player to immerse themselves into the gameplay without overtaxing an older rig.

Due to being a simulator, there isn’t exactly a constant background soundtrack following you around as you toil in the bunker; there’s just the occasional “brrrr…” sound of a passing airplane and sounds of distant gunfire. There’s a radio in the bedroom that you can use to listen to some music if you want – WW2-era stuff mostly. There are also the usual sound effects that match everything you do, whether you are simply running from one room to another, or throwing stuff around.

Conclusion

All in all, WW2 Bunker Simulator is a pretty solid simulator, giving players a nice insight into what it’s like trying to hold a bunker and survive living in it. The game concept here is very unique and it scratches an itch that fans of WW2 games never knew was there. As an early access title though, the game does have some glitches and some room for improvement, but overall, if you’re a fan of WW2 games, you should definitely check this game out.