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Outward (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows stadia Xbox One Playstation 5 Android

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

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  • survival
  • rpg
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • dungeon
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • souls
  • online

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Smalland: Survive the Wilds (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Dive into Smalland: Survive the Wilds, where your survival skills are put to the test in an expansive, mysterious world. Ride insects, build shelters with friends, and unravel ancient secrets. Arm yourself with unique gear and face the wild's colossal inhabitants. Can you thrive among the giants of nature?


What we like:
  • Customizable controls
  • Enjoyable resource gathering
  • Exceptional base building
  • Captivating atmosphere and visuals
What could be improved:
  • Motion sickness issues
  • Potential for inventory loss and movement glitches

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • character

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Starsand (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?


What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

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Survival: Fountain of Youth (2023)

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early access Xbox Series X Playstation 5 j PC Windows

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world survival game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • realistic
  • sailing
  • underwater
  • building
  • historical
  • immersive
  • base-building
  • simulation

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Endzone - A World Apart (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Endzone - A World Apart is a post-apocalyptic city-building game that challenges you to rebuild society in a radioactive wasteland. With an extensive tutorial, you'll navigate challenging environmental effects, manage resources, and make meaningful decisions to ensure the survival of your people. The game will test your survival skills and requires strategic placement of buildings and resource monitoring. While a steep learning curve may hinder some players, the game offers hours of enjoyable content and a great sense of accomplishment when your settlement begins to thrive.


What we like:
  • Extensive tutorial for in-depth guidance
  • Challenging environmental effects add immersive gameplay
  • Visually appealing with a trippy soundtrack
  • Trading system sets an example
  • Game mechanics are solid
What could be improved:
  • Poor AI pathing and priorities
  • Unbalanced raiders quickly disrupt game enjoyment
  • Updates are slow with frequent patches needed
  • Building alerts are not prominent

  • city-building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • management
  • simulated
  • resource

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Ultra Pixel Survive (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

Command heroes with unique abilities, harvest natural resources to collect materials, then build and develop your military defenses.

Each night the enemy hordes will attack the village, and challenge your strategic and tactical prowess to survive. Explore dark underground dungeons, and wage battle against gigantic bosses!

Evolve your weapons by gathering new materials, and survive the epic onslaught for as long as possible.


Features
* Build and upgrade your resources and heroes
* Build defenses, farm, hunt, cook food and more
* Unlock new characters
* Action RPG and survival gameplay
* Cute epic fantasy pixel art


  • survival
  • never-ending
  • fight-or-flight
  • featuring
  • building
  • horde
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • pixel
  • base-building
  • sprite

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Gord (2023)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 PC Windows

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.


  • real-time
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • survival
  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • colony
  • dark
  • moddable
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • lore
  • adventure-strategy
  • management
  • magic

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Dig or Die (2018)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One j Xbox Series X

In Dig or Die, you are stranded on a hostile planet and must build strong defenses to survive massive attacks each night. Explore, craft, and build intricate structures in a science-fiction world with realistic physics and even a water cycle to manage. With no hunger needs to worry about, the game is all about surviving the night attacks and ultimately building a rocket ship to escape the planet. Experience fast and fun laser gun fights in a procedurally generated environment and a global real-time simulation.


What we like:
  • Interesting gameplay mechanics
  • Good difficulty balance
  • Replayability with randomly generated maps and several game modes
  • Unique gameplay ideas and concepts
  • Physics-based gameplay with liquid and structural physics
What could be improved:
  • Jetpack mechanics are dull
  • Jumping is not perfect
  • Limited monster variety and no melee combat or interesting weapons
  • Physics simulation with buildings can be weird
  • Exploration and material gathering can get tedious

  • crafting
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • terraria
  • open-world
  • physics
  • 2d
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • base-building

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Praey for the Gods (2021)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • lore
  • climbing
  • cinematic
  • fantasy
  • soundtrack
  • mythology
  • fight
  • platform

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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

The only survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth, the iconic fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • dwarf

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