OSR Review & Commentary On Hostile Survivors Rpg By Martin Proctor For 2d6 Science Fiction Rpg's & Hostile Rpg

" Hostile Survivors, a narrative sci-fi survival roleplaying game."

Together with your fellow players, or even solo (yes there are rules for that too) using a rules-light approach you will throw your characters into life-threatening situations. From war to catastrophe, alien horror to orbital isolation; you'll see how your characters cope when the certainties of life are stripped away."

"Characters are created by reflecting on the triumphs and failures of their personal history embedded in the universe of Hostile, Zozer Games well-established gritty and utilitarian retro-future. With the help of a life-path system, your character grows before your eyes with each experience enhancing their abilities and forming their desires and viewpoints."

"Use the environment around you, the tools you find (or make) and your ingenuity and wits. This isn't a game about blasting alien horrors on a space colony, but more like hiding from the monster whilst figuring a way to get you and your badly injured comrade off the space station."

"You are not superheroes or demi-gods, but ordinary people overcoming what appears to be impossible odds and making your stamp on the universe  or failing and dying in the cold depths of space. Scenario templates are included for a variety of survival situations."

Everything needed to play is included (except six-sided dice), but all of the Hostile  rulebooks and supplements are compatible with this rules-light narrative variant."

The  Hostile Survivors Rpg By Martin Proctor comes in on seventy four pages. It's a whole cloth role playing game unto itself that emulates the PC's being forces to survive on planet side. The Hostile Survivors rpg can emulate anything from survival on a space based colony to whole cloth alien planets covered in ruins. 
And it all comes down one main theme & that's PC's trying to completely survive the circumstances that life throws at them. 
There's a tradition of miniature games within 2d6 classic Science Fiction rpg's & Hostile Survivor plugs right into this tradition because it's a complete stand alone game. It's perfect for the Solo player/DM who wants to get into the nuances of Hostile without going for the full commitment right away. Hostile Survivors is powered by the same 2d6 and enables immersive play. 
And this game could be used as a great way to mount a rescue mission on an alien planet for a lone survivor of a space based disaster. Using the Hostile player's PC's as the party enables the DM to cross over both games. 

The Hostile Survivors Rpg is keyed for the Hostile rpg to work with it! This makes combining and expanding Hostile a snap. This a feature and it's been put in on purpose. Paul Elliot Hostile's author has been making games since he was a kid. And he knows talent and Martin Proctor does an excellent job of designing Hostile Survivors. 

Hostile rpg has the capacity for lots of expansion and this supplement proves this. The author and designer has done a fine job of expanding the setting to highlight the 'survivor factor' within it. This is key to the Hostile rpg as both a role playing game and a campaign setting. This supplement leans so heavily into this conceit and expands on it. Because Hostile's universe is literally armed and aimed against the PC's. Everything is literally out to kill you. Hostile Survivor carries on all of the above and then doubles down on it. 
This makes the Hostile game such a great canvas to do horror and interstellar planetary survivor rpg adventures. Grab this one!