Category: Open World

The Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta bringing some huge new features to the popular space sim.

With the latest updates to the popular Palworld, Valve have now bumped it up to Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible.

Whew, this one took a while. Around three years of development went into OpenMW 0.49.0 which is now available to play Morrowind with lots of enhancements.

Storm's Brewing is the newest update for the zombie survival game 7 Days to Die, and it's one that really changes the game.

Bohemia Interactive have today revealed the DayZ Badlands expansion for their very popular open-world survival game.

Dying Light (the original) is still one of the best open-world zombie games around, and now perhaps just even better with the Dying Light: Retouched update.

Finally, only about 7 months after the release, Stalker 2 actually now has the A-Life AI system hooked up properly.

A huge update for Palworld has arrived with the Tides of Terraria crossover. It's a lot more than just adding bits of Terraria though.

Mojang have given an update on the upcoming Vibrant Visuals update, that brings many visual enhancements to Minecraft.

We're getting a full modern POSTAL 2 remake with POSTAL 2 Redux being announced today.

There seems to be no stopping Hello Games with updates to No Man's Sky, with the Beacon update now available free.

The Long Dark from Hinterland Studio just got a big free update to enhance many parts of the visuals for high-end systems.

Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions. This release has been years in the making for the switch to modern SDL2, away from the very outdated Irrlicht.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software and PlayStation Publishing LLC has Patch 10 out now with some NVIDIA upgrades along with a fix for some Steam Deck players.

Ahead of the release of Dune: Awakening, my one major concern with it has been swept away by the sands. Thankfully, the BattlEye anti-cheat will be enabled for players on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck to play it.

If you've still not had the chance to grab The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, now is your best bet with the 10th anniversary celebration giving huge discounts.

In a future Minecraft release that's now in testing, you won't need to hunt or fish for a saddle, as it's finally going to be an item you can just craft.

GSC Game World have just announced S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition that will launch on May 20th with enhanced versions of Shadow of Chornobyl (2007), Clear Sky (2008), and Call of Prypiat (2009). They will be coming with various upgrades and Steam Deck support too.

We've just had Indiana Jones and the Great Circle get Steam Deck Verified after an update, and now it's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that's also seen a game upgrade and Valve bumping the rating to Steam Deck Verified.

Bethesda have released a surprise Beta update for Starfield. The update brings with it numerous bug fixes, Creation Kit upgrades and there's even a new Very Low graphics setting option.