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Zombies off the port bow!

Last Harbor is an open world zombie survival game with a bit of a unique twist: Most of the game takes place at sea. During Summer Game Fest, tinyBuild revealed a trailer for Last Harbor. This multiplayer, survival crafting game is set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest where zombies have taken over the land masses. That means you and your boat will take to the seas to try to survive and live out your days.

Players will be able to craft,...

Gothic-like.

Of Ash and Steel is now available on Steam and GOG. The game is said to be "a modern spin on classic RPGs" and promises "deep combat, rich exploration, and meaningful choices in a world with no quest markers."

The game is developed by Fire & Frost, a small studio who is making their debut with today's release. Published by tinyBuild, Of Ash and Steel retails for just $29.99 normally but has a launch week discount of -20%.
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This is now the second time the game has been delayed.

The open world survival horror game, Sons of the Forest, has once again been hit with a delay. This sequel to the similarly themed game, The Forest, was first slated for release on May 20, 2022. It was then delayed until October 2022. Now, the game has been moved all the way to February 23, 2023.

Developer Endnight Games announced the delay by way of a short tweet. They say that "it has been hard to pinpoint an...

The game was first revealed back in 2016.

Six years after its announcement, Techland is finally ready to really get to work on a new open-world action-RPG fantasy game that they first teased roughly six years ago. The game, which does not yet have a name, will apparently be their next major title following the successful launch of Dying Light 2.

The only piece of media released for this new title is the single piece of concept art, seen above.

Techland CEO...

Another vast open world RPG was just released.

It's now time to become the hero of Magalan. The sci-fi RPG Elex II was just released today for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X|S.

Just like a couple other action-RPGs released these past couple of weeks, Elex II offers players an open world to explore at their leisure. The game features five major factions that have their own story arcs that you can work your way through. The lands of Magalan...

IGN has an exclusive new look at this zombie killing survival game.

An upcoming open-world MMO survival game, The Day Before, now has a brand spanking new gameplay focused trailer today. This new footage comes courtesy of an IGN exclusive. The game has been compared to everything from DayZ to The Division to The Last of Us. Gameplay seems to consist of exploring your environment, looting materials, shooting zombies, and battling other players. It's something that most game players...

The killer could be anyone, and it's up to you to figure out who.

Indie developer Kaizen Game Works just released their open-world murder-mystery game called Paradise Killer. It is available now for the Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.

Paradise Killer is an open-world "whodunit" mystery and it's up to you to sift through the clues to try to figure out, well, who did it. Paradise is actually the name of an island that "regenerates every few millennia."...

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Just a little heads up for you fans of open worlds, survival, combat, Conan the Barbarian, and dick sliders (except on Xbox): Conan Exiles is having a free weekend on Steam. Actually, it's a bit more than just a free weekend because it has already begun and today is only Thursday. So unless someone changed the definition of "weekend" on me, you're getting at least a whole extra day to try the game out.

The weekend...

It was revealed today that Daedalic Entertainment has picked up the publishing rights to AtomicTorch Studio's upcoming multiplayer survival RPG CryoFall (volume warning). The game will allow up to 200 players to fight for survival in an open-world environment. Similar to games like Ark players will have to deal with the dangers of the wilderness as they engage in forming economies, crafting goods, providing services, farming with "complex growth simulations," crafting maps, and...

A new gameplay trailer is out today for The Sinking City, an upcoming open-world investigation action game that is very Lovecraftian in nature.

The trailer shows off a bit of the main character, Charles W. Reed, his mental state, and how he interacts with the city of Oakmont.
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Human Head Studios, the studio that brought you the original Prey, just released a trailer for Rune: Ragnarok. Rune: Ragnarok is an upcoming open-world, sandbox RPG that is filled with Norse mythology. The trailer is for a pre-alpha version of the game, meaning that it's still incredibly early in the development cycle.
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Human Head Studios, the studio that brought you the original Prey, just released a trailer for Rune: Ragnarok. Rune: Ragnarok is an upcoming open-world,...

Human Head Studios, the team behind the 2006 Prey and Rune, just announced Rune: Ragnarok. Rune: Ragnarok is being billed as a "sandbox, open-world RPG set in a dangerous Norse universe during the end of days." Huh, well that sounds peachy.
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Human Head Studios, the team behind the 2006 Prey and Rune, just announced Rune: Ragnarok. Rune: Ragnarok is being billed as a "sandbox, open-world...