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Void Scrappers is my new favourite coffee-break game — try the free Prologue

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2022

Void Scrappers Prologue, the new free version of the bigger upcoming Void Scrappers is out now and I had a chance to try it before release and came away very impressed.

A genre is born: Horde games

By anewson, 3 Sep 2022

Vampire Survivors-like? Top-down Action-roguelike? Reverse bullet hell? One-stick shooter? Let's take a look.

Controller support for V Rising planned, better Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Sep 2022

Stunlock Studios have revealed quite a lot of their plans for V Rising, the popular open-world vampire survival game.

Valheim gets patched to prevent the world resetting

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2022

Quite an important update has rolled out for the open-world survival game Valheim, with a bunch of changes related to the saving system to prevent some big problems.

Survival city-building game Synergy certainly looks different

By Liam Dawe, 22 Aug 2022

A city-builder not quite like the others it seems. Synergy from Leikir Studio and Goblinz Publishing has a pretty great pastel colour style to it.

Valheim gets a small teaser as Iron Gate get back to work on Mistlands

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2022

Valheim is due to get a huge upgrade at some point, which most players are now waiting on and Iron Gate have given the smallest of teasers on it again.

ARK: Survival Evolved switches away from Linux Native to use Proton

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jul 2022

You wouldn't know this looking at the Steam page for ARK: Survival Evolved but Studio Wildcard have now put their Native Linux version behind a Beta on Steam as they now prefer Linux users to play with the Proton compatibility layer.

Don't Starve Together big Curse of Moon Quay update out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2022

Curse of Moon Quay is the latest major update for the Native Linux survival game Don't Starve Together and it sounds like a great one.

Core Keeper hits 1 million sales in only a few months

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2022

Pugstorm and Fireshine Games have announced that their game Core Keeper has managed to hit 1 million sales only a few months after entering Early Access.

Core Keeper's first major update The Sunken Sea is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jun 2022

An absolute gem of a game this and now perhaps a good time to go back and spend some proper time with it, as the rather large The Sunken Sea update is out now.

Wilderness survival sandbox Vintage Story has a massive upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2022

A game I really haven't spent enough time with because it's great, Vintage Story is a blocky survival game that's thoroughly challenging and a huge upgrade is out now.

ARK: Survival Evolved free to own on Steam, new free DLC map out

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2022

Here's your tip of the day: you can go a claim a free to keep copy of ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam right now for a limited time only.

Minecraft - The Wild Update is out now, Java & Bedrock now one purchase

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2022

Minecraft 1.19 - The Wild Update is out now. Not only that, all owners now get both Java & Bedrock together as they've been merged into a single purchase.

V Rising now works on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton Experimental Beta

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2022

V Rising, the latest huge Steam hit can now run on Linux desktops and Steam Deck, thanks to updates to the Beta version of Proton Experimental.

Project Zomboid version 41.71 out with Steam Deck and controller upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2022

Project Zomboid, a survival game from The Indie Stone that's currently in Early Access just had a big new stable release, and it should now work better on the Steam Deck and with controllers overall.

Doom & Destiny Worlds gets Steam Deck Verified, dev gives info on what they changed

By Liam Dawe, 16 May 2022

Doom & Destiny Worlds is an open world turn-based RPG with crafting, building, farming, and 4 players local co-op option. Recently it was Verified for Steam Deck.

Cannibal Crossing seeing plenty of tweaks for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2022

Cannibal Crossing, an action-survival game for 1-4 players from development teams at Rocketcat Games (Death Road to Canada) / Everplay Interactive / Blow and Try Again continues evolving and gets some nice Steam Deck improvements.

The Long Dark has some huge changes on the way with paid survival DLC

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2022

Hinterland has confirmed now that the future of the The Long Dark will have the Story and Survival modes completely separate, along with paid expansions for the Survival mode.