Systems get tweaked during development, and there's a lot of work and fine-tuning before the perfect balance can be found. It was easy to find food and I never found myself in danger of starving, but I still had to eat almost constantly because my food meter depleted so quickly. When I first played Just Survive (it was then called H1Z1, and never made it out of Early Access-servers will go offline this year) I had a slightly different problem. I died of thirst before I could even reach the river, less than thirty seconds after starting the game.
There was a river nearby, blocked by a line of trees, so I began walking to find a gap. Another game, Unveil, started with me in desperate need of food and water.
