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Palworld gets a roadmap including co-op crossplay, world transfers for Pals and an ending

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Palworld developer Pocketpair have recently revealed a fresh roadmap of what's to come for the popular monster catching survival game.

Base-building survival game Necesse gets a big update and Free Weekend

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Necesse is an impressive open-world base-building survival and adventure game from developer Fair Games ApS, with a big update out now and you can try it free this weekend. There's also a 35% discount if you want to keep it.

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Cubic Odyssey announced as a fusion of Minecraft and No Man's Sky

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2025

With a style that's a fair bit similar to Minecraft with an expansive universe seen in the likes of No Man's Sky, the recently announced Cubic Odyssey from Atypical Games and Gaijin Network Ltd looks pretty darn fun.

Forest Reigns is a post-apocalyptic FPS set in Paris from former Stalker devs

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2025

Forest Reigns looks like a beautiful blend of gameplay with elements of Stalker, Crysis and Fallout wrapped up in a neat package.

Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2025

Mojang have released the first Snapshot (a Beta) of the next Minecraft update, and with it there's a bunch of new features included for explorers.

VoxeLibre the free and open source Minecraft-like v0.88 brings huge improvements

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2025

VoxeLibre continues advancing towards helping you replace Minecraft with a free and open source alternative. The next release v0.88 is out now and it's a big one.

Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable is out with lots new for testing

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2025

One missed from last month is the massive update to survival game Project Zomboid is now available as an Unstable Beta for testing.

Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2025

It's been a strange few days for Palworld on Steam Deck. Originally it was rated Steam Deck Playable, then after the major Feybreak update Valve set it as Steam Deck Unsupported and now it's back to Steam Deck Playable again.

Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.8 brings more graphics improvements and new game mechanics

By Liam Dawe, 24 Dec 2024

Thrive is an open source evolution sim built with Godot Engine, it's getting more impressive with every new release and there's another update out now for you to try out.

Drill-ship survival game Volcanoids adds big mech spiders and tanks that drill up through the ground to say hi

By Liam Dawe, 17 Dec 2024

I still think Volcanoids has one of the absolutely coolest ideas for a survival game, with your base being a big moving drill that burrows through the earth and it just keeps on getting better.

Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward adds creature territories, deities, item stacking and lots more

By Liam Dawe, 17 Dec 2024

Wayward is an Early Access wilderness survival roguelike that's highly rated by players, and it just had a massive update launch with "Runekeeper".

Chilly survival game BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2 announced

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2024

While they're finishing up work on the final bits of The Long Dark, Hinterland recently revealed the next game with BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.

Core Keeper developer announced KYORA that looks suspiciously like Terraria where "every pixel is yours to shape"

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2024

Terraria 2? Well, they can't call it that of course, but it sure looks like it. Coming from developer Pugstorm and published by Chucklefish, KYORA looks quite delightful.

Deep survival game Vintage Story has another massive update approaching in v1.20

By Liam Dawe, 5 Dec 2024

Vintage Story is a survival game with some impressively deep game mechanics, and the v1.20 update is another major one that's coming out soon with a first Release Candidate available to test.

Survival game The Long Dark gets a big update with a deep Safehouse Customization system

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2024

Seems like it's time to jump back into the world of The Long Dark, with a big update out now that includes major new free features along with expanding their Tales from the Far Territory DLC.

Minecraft Java 1.21.4 'The Garden Awakens' update is out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2024

Mojang have today released Minecraft Java 1.21.4 'The Garden Awakens' update for everyone, bringing with it some fun new toys and a new biome to carefully explore.

Survival game The Last Plague: Blight adds controller support, great for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2024

The Last Plague: Blight impressed me quite a lot with the initial Early Access release, and the developer has been doing some great updates to it recently.

LIGHT OF MOTIRAM takes Horizon Zero Dawn and turns it into a co-op survival game

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2024

Is this Palworld all over again? The copying here is pretty blatant. Tencent Games owned developer Polaris Quest revealed LIGHT OF MOTIRAM and it seems very familiar.

Single-player survival horror game Sorry We're Closed out now and should work great on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2024

This looks awesome and quite weird, especially if you love your retro-infused games. Sorry We're Closed is the first release from à la mode games available now.