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Just released into Early Access with Native Linux support, VEIN could be the next big survival game with a whole lot of features that just look and sound great. It may not be all that impressive graphically compared to some other survival games, with a rather flat-looking style to it, but it seems the list of features and general world interactivity make up for it.

You know the drill when it comes to this though - the world ended, it's a zombie apocalypse. It's been done over and over again. Where it actually sounds interesting is everything else. The environment is dynamic and changes with the seasons along with "long-scale" random events. There's also some intelligent AI they say that can "see, hear, feel, and smell you, and react intelligently to those senses".

Additionally there's a lot of character customization, nearly everything is usable in some way down to simple things like knocking on doors and turning on taps. Then you get into the building systems where you can build up a safehouse, you need to go hunting and till the land for crops and there's even vehicles too. So far, it seems like it has everything to make it quite a hit.

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There's even a demo available that has some limits on it so you can at least try before you buy.

VEIN | Release Date: 24th October 2025

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fabertawe 4 hours ago
Oooh, I like the look of this emoji Right up my street!

Edit: There is a demo and from the store page - "In the demo, you're limited to a small region of the world, and your maximum level for skills is 50 instead of 100. There are no other restrictions on the demo. The demo gets regular feature updates and bug fixes alongside the main game."

No excuse not to give it a go emoji


Last edited by fabertawe on 28 Oct 2025 at 1:21 pm UTC
scaine 3 hours ago
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This looks very good, like 7 Days to Die with improved graphics. I doubt the world is anywhere near as destructible as 7D2D, but the world looks pretty convincing - much less "ruined" than in 7D2D. It doesn't look like the building is too over-the-top either. Hopefully there's no maze-running required to survive late-game hordes!

Definitely will be checking this out!
tfk 3 hours ago
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There's also some intelligent AI they say that can "see, hear, feel, and smell you, and react intelligently to those senses.

Can we call it something else than AI please? emoji
Liam Dawe 3 hours ago
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Well, it's game AI, but I get it - generative AI has basically added poison to the term now. But what else should we call it? And should we have to rename things every time something comes along?
scaine 2 hours ago
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Yeah, AI has been poisoned. In this case, it's just funny that it's such a negative term now that the title had to specify that it's "intelligent" artificial intelligence! emoji

As for calling it something else, maybe just putting "enemy" or "game" in front of the term is enough. Or skip AI entirely and use "behaviours", or something? It's a bit long-winded, isn't it!?

We'll just to steal the term back somehow. Wait for the genAI bubble to burst, perhaps.
Stella 2 hours ago
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Sorry Liam, but I'm at the point now when I want to puke whenever I read the word 'AI' this stupid bubble can't burst quickly enough
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