Whiteout Survival is a gripping strategy and survival game set in a harsh, frozen post-apocalyptic world. Developed to challenge players’ resource management and leadership skills, the game places you in charge of a group of survivors struggling to stay alive amid extreme cold and dwindling resources. Strategic decision-making is crucial as you face unpredictable weather changes, scarce supplies, and hostile threats from the environment and rival groups. This beginners guide sheds light on some of the core gameplay systems set in place that everybody should be aware about. Let’s begin!

The Furnace 

The Furnace is the heart of your base. It provides warmth, which is crucial for the survival of your people. Keep it fueled and upgrade it regularly to increase its heating range and efficiency. Without a functional furnace, your survivors will succumb to the cold. Your survivors are entirely dependent on the furnace to provide them heat in these bone-chilling winters. Much like any other building, you can also upgrade the furnace for increased utility and unlocking new features. 

The furnace comes with a MAX mode after you upgrade it to higher levels, and during this period it will produce double the heat but also consume double the coal. During nighttime, when the winters are at their peak, it’s recommended to turn on this mode but ensure to turn it off during the daytime to save some coal. 

Every upgrade and enhancement you make to your town should contribute towards improving your Furnace. Warmth is not only necessary for illness prevention and survival, but it is also the primary means of expanding your community and unlocking additional features. This is because when your Furnace burns hotter, it covers more ground, allowing you to travel further into the icy wastes and gain access to more buildings. For example, upgrading your Furnace to level 7 grants you access to the Lighthouse, the structure from which you can launch Exploration missions. 

The Building System

Building in Whiteout Survival differs from the traditional base-building games. Instead of placing buildings wherever, you click on specified slots in your town to construct the structures assigned to them. This simplifies constructing but limits your creative freedom when designing your town layout. Each building in your community serves a specific purpose, such as providing food, creating resources, or heating your town. Building and improving these structures is critical for expanding your town.

Heroes and the Gacha System

Heroes are the main bread & butter units that you will use during combat scenarios. For those unaware, Whiteout Survival features a strategic turn-based combat system that can only be seen in the exploration mode. This game mode features multiple stages that rise in difficulty and provide crucial resources required for growth and development of your account. Players can create and deploy 5 heroes from their inventory to defeat multiple waves of enemies. 

Heroes come in different rarities, starting with the lowest being Rare and the highest being Legendary. The higher the rarity of the hero, the stronger they are considered as they have better stats and unique abilities.  The combat system of the game is quite straight-forward and the game also has many quality-of-life features such as 3X battle speed and auto battling. 

Players can get complete heroes and their fragments from a thorough recruitment system that unlocks after you clear the initial tutorial. The gacha system offers 2 distinct banners that consistently give out heroes, hero shards, and other resources. There 2 different banners are as follows:

• Advanced Recruitment – This summoning banner offers epic heroes, rare heroes, epic hero fragments, rare hero fragments, exploration manuals (all rarities), hero exp, speed-ups (all varieties), meat, wood, coal, and iron. Players can use their accumulated Platinum keys to summon either 1 chest or 10 chests at a time. 
• Epic Recruitment – This summoning banner offers legendary heroes, epic heroes, rare heroes, legendary hero fragments, epic hero fragments, rare hero fragments, exploration manuals (all rarities), hero exp, speed-ups (all varieties), meat, wood, coal, and iron. Players can use their accumulated Gold keys to summon either 1 chest or 10 chests at a time. 

Quests and Missions

Whiteout Survival offers a variety of different quests and missions to keep new and existing players engaged. Since this is a live-service game, many of the quests also repeat on a daily/weekly basis, and players can clear them each day and week, respectively. You can view all the growth missions and quests by clicking on the scroll icon located on the bottom left-hand side of the main menu. The quests are divided into 2 types – Main and Side quests. 

The main quests are essential to complete in order to progress further and unlock new game modes. The side quests are optional but we recommend indulging in them as they provide you with tons of resources for doing mundane tasks. 

The chapter missions are some of the most rewarding types of quests. They are a 1-time only mission that can be completed anytime, as they do not expire. These missions are divided into multiple chapters, with each chapter having multiple missions. If you are confused on how to complete them, simply read the objective and click on the mission. The game will automatically take you to the mission location. After completing the mission, you can claim the respective rewards.

We recommend playing Whiteout Survival on a PC or Laptop using BlueStacks with a keyboard and mouse for a 60 FPS Full HD lag-free experience on a bigger screen.