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Survival game Vintage Story gets an official mod database, improved Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2021

Out for your next survival game that isn't Valheim? Do give Vintage Story a go, which on the surface looks like Minecraft but it's so much more interesting and far deeper mechanically.

Valheim still growing with 4 million sales, hits top 5 of most played games on Steam ever

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2021

Valheim Valheim Valheim, it's all we've been hearing lately. We're guilty of it, other websites and content creators have covered it a lot and so expectedly it's hit new highs again.

Free and open source voxel game engine Minetest 5.4 is out, makes mods easier for users

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2021

Minetest, the Minecraft-like voxel game engine (and a basic game that comes with it) has a big new release out with Minetest 5.4.0 and it's worth trying again.

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2021

Valheim has truly become an absolute runaway hit. A survival game about Vikings running around in co-op chopping down trees and facing off against big bosses.

Open-world, turn-based RPG 'Relic Space' gets a trailer and release window

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2021

Love turn-based tactical battles in space? Well the upcoming Relic Space is showing a huge amount of promise and it will be entering Early Access later this year.

Valheim managed to sell over 1 million copies in the first week

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2021

It was clear from the moment it release that Iron Gate was onto something with Valheim, their Norse mythology and Vikings inspired open world co-op survival game.

Valheim has become the next survival game hit on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2021

Looks like Iron Gate AB and Coffee Stain Publishing did well, with the survival game Valheim doing fantastic.

Viking open-world survival game Valheim enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2021

After a promising Alpha release on itch.io back in 2018, the day has finally come to enter purgatory in Valheim.

Minetest 5.4.0 to make downloading mods and games a lot easier

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2021

Minetest is the free and open source voxel game engine, inspired originally by Minecraft it's gradually becoming bigger and better with lots of available games for it.

Steampunk survival game Volcanoids has a huge combat upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

Stuck on an island where the volcano is erupting constantly, Volcanoids is an interesting setting for a survival game that gives you a big moving drill for a base.

Odin is finally pleased so the open-world survival game Valheim releases on February 2

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Odin has finally had enough sacrifices and shall be releasing Valheim from Iron Gate AB will enter Early Access with Linux and Windows support on February 2.

Dust: The Abandoned Land is a surprising free open-world 2D survival game

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Dust: The Abandoned Land is an in-development 2D open-world survival game, one that has a surprising amount of features and you can play it online with others.

The Ranchers is an upcoming open-world country-life RPG sim

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

Love your open-world games? How about farming life sims? The Ranchers looks like another great entry into this more casual and laid-back part of the gaming world.

EVERSPACE 2 begins Early Access soon, full Linux support in 2022

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2021

Keeping you up to date on what's happening with the open-world space shooter EVERSPACE 2, it seems it's just about ready to enter Early Access for Windows.

The Long Dark has a big new Survival Mode update out now with a new region

By Liam Dawe, 8 Dec 2020

The Long Dark is probably one of the most beautiful survival games, and quite brutal too. Ready to get cold again? A big new update to the Survival Mode is out now.

The latest Vintage Story update adds in Character Customization and the Steel Age

By Liam Dawe, 7 Dec 2020

Continuing to be seriously impressive, the 1.14 update to the deep survival game Vintage Story is officially out now after multiple testing builds.

Inspired by the likes of Cube World, open source RPG Veloren has the biggest update yet

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2020

Currently in development and not yet considered a full game but still very impressive anyway, Veloren is a free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG.

Deep survival game Vintage Story has my full attention with the latest expansion

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2020

Vintage Story has a huge new version almost ready to release, with a couple of Release Candidates going up for the 1.14 release and it's looking awesome.

Minecraft has a first snapshot up for the huge Caves & Cliffs update

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

While we have to wait until much later next year for the full release of Minecraft Caves & Cliffs, the team at Mojang have put out some of the new bits to play with in a snapshot development build.