Unturned 2024 Survey Results

This survey ran near the start of 2024 to collect feedback on what the Unturned community most wanted to see during the year. Thank you to everyone who participated!

We plan to use these responses to help guide Unturned’s development throughout 2024. For each of the survey questions, we’ve compiled the top responses so that you can see what feedback is popular amongst other players, too!

Which areas of the game do you most want updated?

The top five most popular responses were:

1. Vehicle improvements (57.2%)
2. Movement and input improvements (43.7%)
3. Crafting system improvements (41%)
4. Skills overhaul (35.6%)
5. Vanilla map adjustments (35.1%)

These all sound like a lot of fun to work on to me. I’ll be starting with the vehicle improvements! A lot of the foundational improvements to the game over the past few years put us in a great position to work on core gameplay again.

I was surprised by how popular vanilla map adjustments ranked. The written feedback we’ve received on where/how to change our vanilla maps has always been very different from person-to-person. I’ll have to tread carefully in this area, but it would certainly be interesting to apply some newer features and modernizations to these maps.

How much do you play single-player vs. multiplayer?

Both this and the following question aimed to better understand how the average person is playing/using the game, considering that we don’t have analytics for these.

Which modes do you play/use?

Note that this question allowed players to select multiple options, which is why the responses do not add up to 100% when added together.

How do you feel about the vanilla maps compared to community-made maps?

Molt in particular was curious to get some map-related feedback to assist map developers. There seems to have been a growing sentiment in the community that it would be fun to have some new, simple vanilla-style maps.

Which are your favorite survival maps?

This question allowed players to choose multiple maps, so the percentages won’t add up to 100%, although it still gives a strong idea of which maps are common favorites. The top five responses were:

1. Russia (47.9%)
2. Washington (36.9%)
3. Arid (34.7%)
4. PEI (25.9%)
5. A6 Polaris (24.9%)

Although perhaps not too surprising, this also lines up with a lot of the feedback players have sent us before the survey. Many players enjoy the community-made curated maps, particularly for how some of them change up gameplay, but official maps also remain very popular amongst players.

Which character should next be made into a Makeship plushie?

The most popular choice was “Nelson’s character” with 26.7% of the votes followed by “Not interested” with 19.1%. This question also had an “other” option, which received some rather unique write-in responses.

I feel a little bit self-conscious about producing a plushie of my character, but I am also honored that this was one of the top choices in both this survey and a previous poll in our Discord server! We’re looking forward to designing another plushie with Makeship!