survivalbox
First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox
Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
Pokemon Company’s threat of potential legal action against Palworld appears to have fizzled out
During the height of Palworld's popularity, gamers threw a lot of accusations in the direction of developer Pocket Pair, claiming plagiarism of Pokemon's designs...
Age of Water makes tweaks to trader resources, research, post office rewards, and dolphin sightings
The water world of Age of Water continues to get adjusted and tweaked by Three Whales Studio, as the nautical survivalbox (survival bathtub?) continues...
Multiplayer Viking-themed survival settlement manager ASKA begins its early access
Surviving in a wilderness is never best done alone if at all possible, but there's one survivalbox that has you managing not just your...
ARK Survival Ascended releases an official mod that injects the Power Rangers into the survivalbox
One of my favorite kinds of mods is the one that slaps in some off-the-wall character or feature that's less about maintaining worldbuilding and...
Conan Exiles slows down its update cadence for chapters and puts the kibosh on battle passes in its next Age
"Conan Exiles is always evolving, and so is the way our team develops it," opens Funcom's latest update post, and sure enough the cadence...
Lost Skies recaps shipbuilding, sky bosses, and the damageability of everything in the game
Video game logic often dictates that if a tree falls on top of a house, that house will remain unfazed as the felled tree...
Valheim launches to Mac players, V Rising arrives to PlayStation 5
This week is all about proliferation of Iron Gate's and Stunlock Studios' survival sandboxes, as both Valheim and V Rising have expanded to new...
SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky
When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...
Stormforge is a new multiplayer survival sandbox inspired by D&D and The Stormlight Archive
Among the new multiplayer games announced this weekend during not-E3 is a fresh "open-world fantasy survival crafting game" called Stormforge (you might have heard...
BitCraft delays its second closed alpha test to July 8
The second closed alpha test for social-focused survival sandbox BitCraft has changed a couple of times before, as studio Clockwork Labs first stated it...
Palworld adds alpha pal breeding, teases new critters, and prepares a Summer Games Fest presentation
It's been a bit of time since we granted a more focused peek in on Palworld, particularly since most of its social media posts...
BitCraft shares a preview of its wide world in a new cinematic video
If you weren't among the 6,500 players who got to try out the last alpha test of BitCraft, then you understandably might feel like...
Bellwright’s first content update adds new forestry building and village management improvements
Bellwright has mostly been focusing on bug fixing since its April early access release, but now it looks as if developer Donkey Crew is...
The Stream Team: Prepping for the boss battle in ICARUS
Massively OP's MJ has made it to the last step of her first mission in ICARUS. All she has left is to defeat the...
Dune Awakening reportedly begins sending out closed beta invites
While Dune: Awakening appears to have failed to strike the hot iron of the recent movie's popularity, it is making something akin to forward...
Solarpunk showcases an overhauled merchant platform in its latest development update
"We wasted a lot of time but Minecraft inspired us." That's the throughline of a recent update blog and the literal title of a...
Nightingale outlines the benefits and limitations of today’s offline mode release
The primarily multiplayer survival sandbox that is Nightingale is now becoming an optional solo act, as today sees the game introduce its single-player offline...
Myth of Empires plans to launch region-free PvP season servers starting on May 25
What's better than a regular server? A season server! Presumably, anyway! PvP-loving players of Myth of Empires who feel that way can look forward...
