Fit check
Is I Shall Remain worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Action RPG players who want survival systems alongside real-time combat
- Players who enjoy managing AI companions and developing a team
- Story-focused players who want dialogue choices and optional side quests
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly focused action game without fatigue, infection, repairs, scavenging, or resource trading
- Players who prefer uncomplicated progression rather than a story campaign with many interconnected systems
- Players looking for a purely solo experience without companion management
- Players who want a setting outside post-apocalyptic alternate-history fiction
Our take on I Shall Remain
Its layered survival systems give combat and progression more context, but they also add recurring upkeep. Infection, tiredness, repairs, scavenging, and serum spending compete for attention alongside quests and combat, making the experience less direct than a combat-only action RPG.
What is I Shall Remain?
This post-apocalyptic action RPG follows two brothers in an alternate-history United States after a deadly virus is released near the end of World War II.
The game combines combat, survival systems, strategic decisions, and character development. Players can use more than 30 weapons, grenades, mines, vehicles, and environmental objects against infected enemies, including foes with more than 20 mutations. Experience from actions develops attributes and skills, while up to 128 doctrines add abilities or improve existing traits.
Traders exchange serum and supplies, weapons can be repaired, and dialogue choices shape story branches. Weather, day and night, infection, tiredness, scavenging, and building exploration affect the journey. Up to seven AI teammates can accompany the player and receive equipment, stat improvements, and assigned paths.
How I Shall Remain plays
- 01Survival management
- Infection and fatigue affect character performance, while rest and serum management control their effects.
- 02Flexible combat arsenal
- The game includes more than 30 weapons, throwable explosives, serum-infused ammunition, tanks, and other vehicles.
- 03Character development
- Actions grant experience for attributes and skills, and up to 128 doctrines provide upgrades or additional abilities.
- 04AI companion teams
- Players can bring up to seven special teammates, equip them, improve their statistics, and choose their development paths.
- 05Branching conversations
- Dialogue decisions can open or close side-story branches during the campaign.
- 06Weapon maintenance
- Weapons wear down over time and can be repaired with scraps, other weapons, teammates, or certain NPCs.
I Shall Remain compared to similar games
I Shall Remain combines action-RPG combat with infection, fatigue, weapon maintenance, scavenging, traders, and AI teammate management. Alpha Protocol™ also centers on an action-RPG story, but its listed description focuses on agent Michael Thorton and an international catastrophe rather than survival-system management. Ghost of a Tale emphasizes exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations in an animal-populated medieval world, while I Shall Remain focuses on infected enemies, firearms, survival upkeep, and team development.
I Shall Remain: platforms & release
Is I Shall Remain worth it?
It is worth it if: action RPG players who want survival systems alongside real-time combat. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly focused action game without fatigue, infection, repairs, scavenging, or resource trading.
Where can I download I Shall Remain?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens I Shall Remain's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is I Shall Remain on?
Windows only.
