Valheim, developer Iron Gate's co-op survival game, was a breakout indie hit in 2021. It landed amid the global pandemic, in a strange moment in time where we were stuck indoors, some of us feeling ...

Part of the great appeal of survival games is that the player is thrown into a dangerous world, and it's up to them to survive and thrive. That means playing whatever way suits the player best. Maybe ...

Imagine a hardcore survival game… but it's peaceful? It sounds like a contradiction, but survival is about more than just bleeding, starving, fending off zombies or wild animals, and struggling to ...

Survival games' learning curves vary, making them difficult for new players to navigate. Subnautica offers a unique ocean survival experience with a terrifying nature. This War of Mine presents ...

Once a fledgling niche genre with a very limited scope of appeal outside its hardcore fans, survival games have been experiencing a massive surge in popularity thanks to the industry-shifting ...

Survival games come in all shapes and sizes, but only a few truly test your limits. If you're the kind of player who thrives on brutal difficulty, realistic mechanics, and the constant threat of ...

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Anthony is a writer who's worked in the games industry for four years. He's a competitive gamer with a soft spot for retro titles. Anthony enjoys speedrunning a few titles, but Simpson's Hit & Run is ...

Many games try to stand out by combining ideas from one genre with systemsfrom another, leading to a lot of games on Steam having descriptions that follow the formula "A + B with C elements". Upcoming ...

Ever since Resident Evil exploded onto the scene in 1996 and made inventory reshuffling in the face of a zombie outbreak popular, players have been regularly fighting down to their very last bullet.