Dean 'Rocket' Hall's Icarus is my platonic ideal of a survival sim The cube-shaped survival game is out in early access, after a fraught decade of development Our brains are hyped goop after playing ...

The coming years are shaping up to be some of the richest in a while for gamers who crave detailed crafting loops and satisfying base-building mechanics. There are sequels to iconic titles, brand-new ...

The first big video game hit of 2024 was Palworld, a game everybody thought would be “Pokémon with guns” but turned out to be an open-world crafting game where you capture monsters — called “Pals” — ...

Games like Valheim and Subnautica offer a blend of building and exploration in rich environments. Fallout 4 introduces base-building in a post-apocalyptic world full of adventure and exploration.

Publisher Radical Theory and developer The Breach Studios have announced Westlanders, a Western-themed open-world survival, crafting, building, and management game planned for release across ...

While some survival games focus on crafting and base-building, others make exploration the real test. Being stranded in a frozen forest or lost at sea forces players into unfamiliar territory, and ...

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our sites. ©2026 KOTAKU USA LLC. All rights reserved. Mode Follow us ...

2350. While studying the lost technologies of a forgotten civilization, humanity unwittingly reactivated the Tripods, autonomous and self-replicating war machines. A brutal century-long war ensued, ...