ActionFit check
Is The Fifth Day worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival game players who want competitive online matches with elimination
- Solo players who prefer gathering resources and building defenses
- Science-fiction fans who want to control a machine and hack artificial intelligences
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a story-led campaign with a defined human cast
- Players who prefer relaxed progression without elimination or resource management
- Players looking for a purely cooperative experience rather than competitive online survival
Our take on The Fifth Day
Its survival focus trades narrative breadth for systems built around resources, construction, power management, and elimination. The online mode also makes failure consequential, while offline freeplay provides a separate way to face the setting alone.
What is The Fifth Day?
Play as a machine surviving after humanity’s extinction in a hostile world filled with rogue artificial intelligences.
Search forests, radioactive wastelands, and abandoned cities for resources, then construct settlements ranging from basic camps to defended bunkers. Manage power sources with different costs and benefits, and hack enemy machines to issue commands or gain support. Competitive online matches span five days, with destroyed players eliminated from the competition; victories provide character skill upgrades. A single-player freeplay mode supports survival without online competition. The game includes both solo and partnered online play, while planned development items include additional environments, construction options, weather, artificial intelligence, skills, power sources, and game modes.
How The Fifth Day plays
- 01Competitive Online Survival
- Online matches last five days, and destruction removes players from the competition.
- 02Settlement Construction
- Resources can be used for structures ranging from temporary camps to bunkers with automated defenses.
- 03Power Management
- Different power sources provide distinct benefits alongside costs for operating the player machine.
- 04Machine Hacking
- Enemy artificial intelligences can be hacked and directed to follow commands or provide support.
- 05Offline Freeplay
- A solo mode places survival in the wasteland without the online competition.
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The Fifth Day: platforms & release
Is The Fifth Day worth it?
It is worth it if: survival game players who want competitive online matches with elimination. Skip it if: players seeking a story-led campaign with a defined human cast.
Where can I download The Fifth Day?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Fifth Day's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Fifth Day on?
Windows and macOS.
