Fit check
Is Hold Your Own worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Solo survival players who want an island setting with hostile insurgents and wildlife
- Crafting fans who want base building alongside farming, hunting, and resource processing
- Players who prefer choosing between a quest-led mode and open-ended sandbox play
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a short, tightly paced campaign may find the open-world survival structure less focused.
- Players who want a consistent sense of progress may not enjoy a scenario built around losing as well as taking territory.
- People looking for multiplayer play, which is currently on hold due to technical issues.
Our take on Hold Your Own
Rather than centering the experience on a fixed campaign alone, the game pairs a linear quest line with a full sandbox option. Its resistance storyline also frames progress as a drawn-out struggle over territory, with gains and losses.
What is Hold Your Own?
Hold Your Own is a single-player open-world survival game set across an island archipelago.
After fleeing home, the player starts with few supplies in abandoned towns while insurgents occupy the land. Survival involves gathering resources, managing hunger, thirst, and body temperature, and contending with weather and the day-night cycle. Players hunt animals, fight insurgents, mine and refine ores, and craft items such as clothing, weapons, ammunition, furniture, and workbenches. Base building, farming, animal husbandry, cooking, electricity, and vehicles are also included. The game offers a linear quest line as well as tutorial and quest modes, or a full sandbox mode without quests. Multiplayer is on hold because of technical issues.
How Hold Your Own plays
- 01Survival needs
- Hunger, thirst, and body temperature are managed alongside changing weather and day-night conditions.
- 02Crafting and building
- Resources can be turned into equipment, furniture, workbenches, ammunition, and weapons for expanding a base.
- 03Quest and sandbox modes
- Players can follow a linear quest line or choose a sandbox mode that leaves quests out.
- 04Island activities
- The game includes farming, animal husbandry, mining and ore refining, cooking, and vehicles.
- 05NPC services
- Friendly characters include a trader, arms dealer, pharmacist, and mechanic.
Hold Your Own compared to similar games
Like Mr. Prepper, Hold Your Own combines survival and crafting, but it places the player in an island archipelago with base building, resource gathering, and combat against insurgents and wildlife. Mr. Prepper centers on preparing an underground shelter amid the risk of nuclear war and conflict with an authoritarian government.
Hold Your Own: platforms & release
Is Hold Your Own worth it?
It is worth it if: solo survival players who want an island setting with hostile insurgents and wildlife. Skip it if: players seeking a short, tightly paced campaign may find the open-world survival structure less focused.
Where can I download Hold Your Own?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Hold Your Own's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Hold Your Own on?
Windows only.
