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Autumn in a Stardew Valley multiplayer screenshot.

News

Stop putting hats on your pets, asks Stardew Valley creator

They don't like it

Nov. 6, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A character wearing furry robes and holding a club in Enshrouded's new mountain area

News

Enshrouded's "largest update so far" is out with a new mountain region, pets and single-player pausing

Peak content

Nov. 5, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A masked water thief looks into the camera in The Forever Winter.

News

The Forever Winter devs answer complaints about water scarcity... by adding thieves who invade your HQ and steal your water

Water way to respond

Nov. 4, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A fantastical dinosaur-esque creature standing near a huge weird tree in Towers of Aghasba

News

Towers of Aghasba looks like Monster Hunter with less monster hunting, more gliding and more village building

New gameplay trailer accompanies November release date

Oct. 23, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A horrible monster train with an eye and fleshy bits, travelling through a dark world with Cthulhu reaching toward it in the sky

News

In action strategy builder RailGods, Cthulhu is a train and you'd better keep it fed

All aboard the Azathoth Express

Oct. 21, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A screenshot from the Steam Next Fest demo of Archons, showing the two Archon characters conjuring a damaging golden halo between them to kill nearby enemies.

News

Archons doubles the chaos of Vampire Survivors by giving you two characters to control at once

Brainpower Overwhelming!

Oct. 17, 2024 Ollie Toms

A traffic jam piles up at a crossroads where a violent misdeed has occurred in Streets Of Rogue 2.

News

The demo for Streets Of Rogue 2 lets you roleplay as the world's most violent chef

Let him cook

Oct. 17, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A promotional screenshot showing a group fighting zombies in No More Room In Hell 2.

Feature

No More Room In Hell 2 nails the terror of being isolated in a zombie outbreak, although you can just hide on a table if you want

It's safe up here

Oct. 16, 2024 Nic Reuben

Review

Dread Dawn review: dawn’t bother

Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?!

Oct. 7, 2024 Nic Reuben

A mech walks into battle on the horizon as the player moves forward in an orange haze.

Review

The Forever Winter early access review: a messy extraction shooter that should have stayed in cover longer

The winter of our discontent

Sept. 26, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A large bug looms over the Nightcat in Rain World

News

Rain World's new slugcat will explore icy wastes and desert sands as The Watcher DLC gets a release date

But what's it watching?

Sept. 20, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A character looks out over a landscape in Reforj, a new game from the developers of Minecraft's console ports.

News

Minecraft console developer 4J Studios are making Reforj, their own open world survival game

Powered by their own voxel engine

Sept. 19, 2024 Graham Smith

A view through a car window driving through woodland with a lightning bolt striking the earth ahead, from survival roguelike Pacific Drive.

News

Closing the car boot on your head will now kill you in Pacific Drive

Oh, and a bunch of other difficulty options

Sept. 16, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A bioengineered human figure obscures their face in shadow.

News

Eve Frontier is a survival game spin-off of Eve Online and, yup, it's full of blockchain bullshit

No, thank you

Sept. 12, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A hotel room numbered 013 stands ominously open in the banner image for the Roblox game Doors.

Guide

Doors codes

Redeem these codes for currency and revives!

Sept. 12, 2024 Rebecca Jones

Three giant humanoid mechs harvest corpses from the battlefield.

News

The mommy mechs of The Forever Winter are stomping into early access next month

We have always been at war with the cool robots

Aug. 30, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A screenshot from God Save Birmingham that shows a man holding a pitchfork running from a zombie horde in medieval Birmingham.

News

Here's an open world zombie survival game set in medieval.... Birmingham?

Best head to the Bull Ring, grab some supplies

Aug. 23, 2024 Ed Thorn

A shootout with some masked outlaws in Atomfall.

Feature

Atomfall plays like a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. with Scouse accents

Bleak district

Aug. 22, 2024 James Archer

Paul Atreides stands in the desert in Dune Awakening.

News

Dune Awakening will burst out of the early access sands in "early 2025"

Worming its way to completion

Aug. 21, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

The corpse of a diver lies tangled in a bunch of coral beneath the surface of a lake.

News

Abiotic Factor's biggest update yet adds new sectors to explore, plus jetpacks, jeeps and laser katanas

Half-Laugh

Aug. 13, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A ruined city is full of zombies, as the player points a machine gun towards them.

Feature

7 Dos and 7 Don'ts in 7 Days To Die

A sorta review

Aug. 8, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

An elevator roof with a huge toothy mouth in horror game Kletka

News

Post-Soviet horror trinket Kletka is an endless descent in an elevator that wants to eat you

Try the demo, feed the maw

July 31, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A cyberpunky person stands, with a smoggy cyberpunk city looming behind them in Beta Decay.

News

Beta Decay is a low-poly dystopian RPG whose grimy cover-shooting shows promise

Even if the rest does seem a tad overambitious

July 30, 2024 Ed Thorn

A warrior sits by a campfire in the woods, in Enshrouded.

News

Enshrouded's latest update adds a new survival preset, complete with hunger and backpack drops on death

Plus plenty of quality of life improvements

July 29, 2024 Ed Thorn

A large zombie reaches out to grab the player in a snowy landscape, and the player fends them off with a knife.

News

Zombie survival game 7 Days To Die version 1.0 is out now after 11 years in early access

Unboard the windows

July 26, 2024 Brendan Caldwell