I knew it was falling lightly because that’s what the latest Frostfall notification told me. It was day one of our trip around Skyrim and the snow was falling lightly. That’s why having him around was so great. In the wilds, Meeko the dog would sleep at the end of my bedroll and he really would keep my feet warm. You see, just travelling with a friend actually makes you feel warmer. Anyway, one of the lesser-known features of the mod is the effect companions have. I woke up in a familiar inn, penniless, frostbitten and with this note in my pocket. Once, I tried to swim across a small, icy river and before I could get a fire going on the opposite shore I passed out from hypothermia. You have to keep yourself warm at fires and fill up on hot soups to keep your ‘exposure meter’ from dropping too low. Exposure can leave you freezing to death, while being wet means you succumb to the cold even faster. One of the mods I have installed is Frostfall, which gives the player a few extra things to worry about. Later on, Meeko killed a lot of people for me.īut more importantly, Meeko kept me warm in Skyrim’s deadly mountain passes.

It was a decision I never came to regret. All right then, I thought, you can follow me. The mongrel looked to me, blinked in the cold and seemed to whine. I looked inside and there, lying still and grey on the shed’s single rickety bed, was Meeko’s owner. I followed him through the trees, where he led me to a run-down shack. He saw me, turned around and ran into the thicket. He is one of Skyrim’s shaggy, grey wolfhounds that look as old as they do stupid. I found Meeko sitting by the side of the road.

Over the course of Survival Week we'll highlight a few of those games and i)write a diary of our experience playing with it ii) explain how to do it yourself. There are lots of survival games, but there are also lots of games which could be survival games with the right mods installed.

Skyrim cold rock pass