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Can you survive... this new Steam Fest?

This week opens with a new Steam Fest from Valve. The Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest includes deals on, well, games that focus on survival. These are the games where you forage, hunt, craft, and just try to survive in all sorts of exotic locations such as out at sea, in space, and even your own backyard.

Touching grass has never been more frightening for a gamer.

Looking at some of the most popular games currently...

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,...

Maintain your own fallout shelter.

Underchoice is a newly released survival simulator where you try to mange life inside of an underground survival shelter. You play the role of the Overseer (OH COME ON) where you will decide the fate of those that come to you seeking help.

Look, I was already drawing the parallels to Fallout and the Fallout Shelter game long before I even read the bit about how you play as the Overseer. To say that this game pulls heavy inspiration...

Just a lonely robot and a big ocean.

Channel37 shared new details and gameplay for The Last Caretaker. This is the studio's upcoming survival action-adventure game where you play as a robotic caretaker navigating a dangerous ocean.

In The Last Caretaker, you will explore a vast ocean, search for lost knowledge, reactivate systems, and try to ensure "the survival of what remains of humanity." You will explore Seed Vaults that hold the means to help humanity...

A look at foraging and barricading.

The first video for the medieval zombie survival game, God Save Birmingham, offered a look at some tense zombie escapes. Today, a new trailer lessens the tension a slight bit. Today, we see another aspect of survival needed during a medieval zombie apocalypse: Foraging for food and supplies and also a lot of barricade building to secure your routes.

Developer Ocean Drive Studio is leaning pretty hard into the idea that you're kind...

What if This War of Mine but with zombies?

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days is an upcoming side-scrolling survival game with zombies. It's in development from PikPok and it is aiming for a Steam Early Access release on April 9, 2025.

The game takes place in Walton, Texas in the year 1980. You will try your best to survive while dealing with an army of the walking dead, scarce resources, and the mental toll this takes on yourself and other characters.

Those...

A new look at this post-apocalyptic survival game.

A new trailer for Permafrost debuted during this week's Future Games Show. The new trailer from SpaceRocket Games and Toplitz Productions shares a look at "some of the dangers that you, as one of the few survivors, face after a cataclysmic event."

That "cataclysmic event" is called the "Shattering" and it's when a "lunar catastrophe engulfed the whole planet under a thick coat of snow...

The weekend starts now.

A free weekend for the survival game Green Hell is now available via Steam. The weekend, which now seems to include Thursday, will run from now through to February 10th at 10AM PT.

During these next days, you will be able to play Green Hell as much as you'd like. You can play in single-player mode or play with friends in co-op.

If you like what you play, you can purchase Green Hell at a big discount to keep playing once the weekend...

It is once again time to make some very difficult choices.

If you are a fan of survival, city building, making tough choices, and total despair then you'll be happy to hear that that advanced access Frostpunk 2 is now available. Those that purchased the Digital Deluxe Edition have access to the game right now, while the base and Game Pass versions won't be out until September 20th.

The Digital Deluxe Edition is currently being sold for $67.49 from Steam, Epic, and other...

Rebellion's upcoming survival-RPG has a release window.

Rebellion shared that their upcoming single-player survival-RPG, Atomfall, will be released in March 2025. This one is another cross-gen title with plans to be released on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.

Atomfall takes players to the mid-20th century in an area located in "the North of England." It is here where players will play through a game "inspired by the real-life...

The release launches alongside a big new update with crossplay.

Free Range Games is readying the release of The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria for both Steam and Xbox Series X|S. This is the survival crafting game set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Previously released on Epic Games Store and PlayStation 5, this game will be made available on Steam and Xbox come August 27.

When it launches on Steam and Xbox, Return to Moria will launch at a discounted price of...

This supernatural multiplayer survival game is now available on PC.

NetEase Games along with developer Starry Studios just released Once Human on PC. You can download the game, for free, via either Steam or the Epic Games Store.

Once Human is an open world survival game with environments and monsters inspired by the SCP Foundation and an assortment of cosmic horrors. Players will try to survive with the usual open world survival game staples in a post-apocalyptic setting....

Embrace the Vampire lifestyle in May.

After about two years in Early Access, the vampire survival game, V Rising, will soon be fully released. The 1.0 PC release of the Stunlock Studios developed title will take place on May 8. The PlayStation 5 release of V Rising will take place later in 2024.

V Rising is a survival game where you are a vampire. As you may safely assume, survival in V Rising includes all of the usual "survival game" staples but you're also...

Test your survival skills and sanity.

Winter Survival will task players with testing their survival skills as well as their sanity in this new story-driven survival game from Drago entertainment. This title is available today on PC through Steam Early Access for $24.99. ...

Survive, craft, and fight in this harsh, voxel filled world.

If punching Pals isn't your idea of a good survival game, then maybe you are more interested in today's Early Access release of Enshrouded. This Keen Games developed title blends together action-RPG combat with crafting and building in a world made up of editable and destructible voxels.

You will play as a Flameborn trying to survive in world that has been plagued by a corrupting fog called the Shroud. The...