Survival & Crafting

Review: Pacific Drive review: the car's the star in this atmospheric yet unwieldy survival game

Hard driving

Review: Bandle Tale: A League Of Legends Story review: a charming crafting RPG plagued by busywork

Not quite Hamstardew Valley

Fantasy extraction game Dungeonborne was February's most played Steam Next Fest demo

Stormgate, Pacific Drive, Homeworld 3 and Backpack Battles round out the top five

To The Star is a survival game based on Alice In Wonderland in which you can cook your dreams

From the Gord devs, features a portable "Briefbase"

Off-grid caravan sim Outbound looks like a cute way to pretend I could live like that

Live in a caravan, coming some time TBA

With 50 playable heroes, indie RPG Zoria: Age Of Shattering wants to "marry XCOM to Baldur's Gate"

Tiny Trinket Games tell us why they're trading deeper characters for more involving exploration

The Rally Point: Dusty survival builder New Cycle struggles for a coherent identity in a busy genre

I told you flares were back

Pacific Drive's Next Fest demo has good mood but tedious survival scavenging

Love the mood, hate picking litter for crafting

All Lethal Company monsters

Here's all the monsters in Lethal Company and how to beat them

Nightingale: Everything we know

Everything you need to know ahead of Nightingale's release date

If Inscryption was a fantasy-themed roguelike dungeon crawler, it might look a lot like this

Pyrene is another budding deckbuilding obsession

15 Steam Next Fest demos you should play first this February

Where to get started with 2024's first Steam Next Fest

Final Factory is Factorio in space, with exploration and fleet combat

A demo is available now

Palworld's servers have cost almost £400k/$500k to run so far

"We have prepared servers without regard to cost"

Palworld: Tips and tricks for beginners

Here is all the essential information you need to survive and thrive in Palworld

New Enshrouded update targets lost save and progress bugs

“We have made the save data system more robust”

Abiotic Factor is half, er, Half-Life, half open world co-op survival game, and it's got a demo

Full release coming May 2024

Enshrouded updates will expand the building tools, tweak resource respawning and fix progress loss

Keen Games outline plans for bug fixes ahead of full early access roadmap

Blizzard have cancelled their in-development survival game alongside today's layoffs

First announced in 2022

Review: Enshrouded early access review: the best building system in the survival genre

Peel back the Shroud and there's a solid foundation here

Enshrouded: Deadly Shroud explained

Here's how to get past Deadly Shroud in Enshrouded

Enshrouded: How to survive longer in the Shroud

Here are all the ways you can extend your Shroud timer in Enshrouded

Enshrouded: How to get Metal Scrap

Here's where to go to get Metal Scrap in Enshrouded

Enshrouded: How to make ladders

Here's how to make your own Ladders in Enshrouded

How to get the Grappling Hook in Enshrouded

Here's how to unlock the Grappling Hook early on