Category 6 is an upcoming survival game set during a gigantic hurricane plaguing half of the US. In this video, we have early access and try out the story mode. Despite its shortness, this game was pretty good… especially considering it was made by just one person!
Demo out on Steam soon. Full game out fall 2025.
Find the game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2823820/Category_6/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:09 Opening
21:23 Kathy’s House
42:02 Exploring
57:31 The Way Out
1:03:06 Outro
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Elentia
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Intro Music:
Song: NOWË – Heart Of Gold (Vlog No Copyright Music)
Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/EALgD9ZjFyo
The music during the game’s intro was part of the game, but has subsequently been changed. Proper credit is:
Tony Longworth – Nature5
Album: All the Emotions
www.tonylongworth.com
Free to use with author credit
Intro Game Music:
The Beat of Nature
source
Wow! only one DEV….
This wasn't even the survival part of the game? Dang! I'd like to see what the dev considers survival!
I love how it begin's with the guy not listening to his wife's worries lmao, real life vibe ! 🤣
Hm, it looks like a fun one. Good graphics, the story is engaging and I wouldn't mind trying it. Thanks Zak. 😊❤❤
"I'm glad I don't have his job right now, that seems miserable" Guy says as he's standing in the exact same storm
1:08
Someone in a previous Zak video joked that we should get a hot lumberjack GF after hitting the 500 day mark in TLD.
I think this is a cool concept and would love to see this fleshed out mmore! Impressive for 1 person
Hello my friend. This game looks awesome actually. Can't wait to try it.
That instant karma with the tree falling on the house 😂
Teach you (the character) to never say another word lol
I live in Asheville, North Carolina. We just had bad flooding with hurricane Helen. The trees really do bend over at that angle.
This game looks a lot of fun. It proofs that graphics don't matter in games, it's about the gameplay in the end, and this single dev has a good feel for that from what I can tell!
Good to see someone make a survival game that is going for it's own unique vibe
For realism purposes, there should be an AR-15 in the game (most common firearm in America)
"Can't see anything, too dark" says a man who loots houses in complete darkness in the Long Dark.
Someone tell the Dev that he did a great job with the world and mechanics. But please. Just drop the "Story" thing. A full page paragraph explanation would do.
Fun stuff, play the sandbox please if time permits 🙂
I am the developer. Thank you so much for playing Category 6! 🙌 It’s amazing to see how you explore the world I created. Your gameplay and reactions brought a huge smile to my face. If you or your viewers have any feedback, I'm all ears, it helps me keep improving! Thanks again for sharing my game with your community. 🌟
I was worried you'd try to interact with the cat with that axe in your hand 😅 the mouse traps are funny lessons. Cool idea
The game looks really good except for all the swearing. Hopefully there will be an option to turn that off. Currently I have it wishlisted but if the option to turn off the swearing isn't there, it'll be a hard pass for me
Yeah the intro wasn't bad, but couldn't hold up against your channel music intro. Jussss sayin.
When playing the guessing game on undressing the lady, what if all answers would have been correct and you're basically just filling out the history between the 2 of you? If not, nice being 3 for 3!
Seems like a great first step, mainly considering it's just one dev.
I think scripted language could use more natural feeling and better acting.
I wonder what the survival mode is about!
Oh boooy I don't know if I trust this. The icons in the menu were clearly not designed as a set, the line weight between each icon varies wildly, as does the style. As a professional artist, this screams of taking assets from google images and stuffing them inside the game. I reverse image searched a number of the Skills icons because they look the most suspicious to me (not really relating to the skill name
Strengthand the different line weights again) and all the ones I searched are coming from websites like Flaticon and Shutterstock. We have to hope the dev paid for a licence, otherwise this is stolen art.The Power skill icon is even better: it comes from the website of a Russian astrologer who offers her services, called Astrokosh. Her website has very cohesive images and design which makes me believe she must have paid someone to create an asset pack for her business so I think the images are hers. The website is way too professional-looking to have sourced their images online so I believe she's the copyright owner. From a cursory glance, the astrologer looks very famous so it'd be a bad look not to pay her own artist. The Endurance icon comes from thesageclinic which is the website of a naturopathic clinic and you can find it on their retreat page. I'm not gonna do that for every single image, but I hope you get my point. This is stealing, pure and simple.
Also, the map looks suspicious to me. I'm pretty sure I recognise the top-down houses and building as coming from Inkarnate, which is a fantasy map-making tool. If that's the case, it means the map was def not done by an artist and there's the risk the dev didn't pay for the license to use in commercial products and used the free version instead.
I'm not saying there's only stolen art here or false advertisement. But this is the sort of behaviour that invites scrutiny so I truly, truly hope the dev paid for every necessary license. But in the case of the UI elements like the Skills icons, at least one of them is seemingly stolen from the astrologer's website and as an artist, I can't condone that. I know not everyone has the eye for that sort of things but please, when you see a game with barely cohesive UI elements and art style, at least ask questions, do some research. Don't promote or support financially a game that may be profiting off the back of artists.
Still a bit clunky but some good ideas for a game made by a single person.
Nobody: absolutely fucking nobody:
Youtube advertising: “SO YOU WANNA SIT AT THE CASINO AT HOME…”
Love your videos. Keep up the great work.
Ooh, Hurricane survival game. Very unique
Wicked Wiz is gonna love it.
Dirty Zak got all the answers in bed right 😉
Awesome development @craftygamelab1731 – I wondered what makes the the small bar above the big health bar increasing / decreasing.
Keeping this in the back of my head. Why do all the fun and/or interesting games come out when I can't buy them😭
I think at launch this would be a change of pace for the channel. I know your time is going to be even more stretched soon. I say focus on what you want
I have to wonder, if this hurricane covers half the country, could it really be any better in the place his family fled to? Regardless, this was cool, and I'd totally play it.
Best of luck to the dev. Hurricane survival game is actually a fairly realistic scenario compared to most other end of the world situations. My buddy in Florida about to living that :p
Zak, If you find yourself in flood waters, do NOT drink that water, it's going to be contaminated with sewage, gasoline, oil, and a whole bunch of other nasty stuff. Even touching that water is a major risk for infection and that's even before taking into account the risks of being swept away by a current, getting hit by debris, and downed electrical lines that might still be energized, the latter of which I was glad to see represented! I think that for a game, this seems pretty interesting! I love the sarcastic humor.
Cool to see you playing other games, love your content man 🙂
Nice one, would love to see you play other survival games as well !
What every survival game needs, a half naked wifey! I approve!
A man-made hurricane?! Looks like Rudiger strikes again!