Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress.

Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for it's text-based appearance but for it's expansive scope, and intricately modelled characters, psychology, politics, landscape, creatures, minerals and vegetation.

The Wratch's Den is a strategy game where you play a dungeon keeper with minions to construct defences and hunt for treasure.

The Wratch's Den is a strategy game where you play a dungeon keeper with minions to construct defences and hunt for treasure. You switch between your minions to dig out the dungeon, construct new tunnels and expand your architectural and training options.

Dread Dawn is a shooting and survival game where you face hordes of zombies on your school's doorstep.

Dread Dawn is a shooting and survival game where you face hordes of zombies on your school's doorstep. Your goal is to survive as long as possible by finding tools and weapons, building defences, and killing lots of zombies.

The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, also called Lord of the Rings: War, is an online strategy game where you play against other players in factions and try and conquer land.

The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, also called Lord of the Rings: War, is an online strategy game where you play against other players in factions and try and conquer land. It includes all of Tolkien's world, from Hobbiton to Rivendell and Isengard to Barad-dûr in a huge map filled with monsters and resources you can use to expand your army.

Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser version of Minecraft.

Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block-building game.

Stranded Deep is a survival game set in the Pacific Ocean.

Stranded Deep is a survival game set in the Pacific Ocean. Taking a cue from films like Cast Away, you survive a plane crash and face life-threatening scenarios in a large open world.

Moonring is a fantasy role-play game inspired by Ultima but with modern improvements and an intriguing narrative.

Moonring is a fantasy role-play game inspired by Ultima but with modern improvements and an intriguing narrative. Play is a turn-based exploration and strategic fighting of the style common in 90's role-play adventures.

Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources.

Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the wild landscape.

Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea.

Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.

Moonlighter is an action role-play game where you play an adventurous shopkeeper who secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Moonlighter is an action role-play game where you play an adventurous shopkeeper who secretly dreams of becoming a hero. It's a game of two halves: shopkeeping and adventuring.

Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space.

Starbound is an action-adventure game from the developer of Terraria about the exploration of space. It's a world viewed from side-on, with simple visuals that enable it to offer complex systems and hundreds of items for players to discover their own adventures.

Elite Dangerous is a new version of the classic 1980s space game Elite.

Elite Dangerous is a new version of the classic 1980s space game Elite. Like the original, it’s a space exploration, trading and combat game that provides a huge and rich universe rather than a specific story.

The Eternal Cylinder is a strategy game where you survive by evolving your creatures to adapt to the environment.

The Eternal Cylinder is a strategy game where you survive by evolving your creatures to adapt to the environment. Your herd explore a strange world filled with exotic lifeforms and environments.

Scavengers is a strategy survival game with an emphasis on team work and shooting.

Scavengers is a strategy survival game with an emphasis on team work and shooting. Squads of three compete to survive in open worlds with harsh environments, computer enemies and periodic missions.

Far: Lone Sails is an exploration adventure video game.

Far: Lone Sails is an exploration adventure video game. You pilot a ramshackle amphibious vehicle propelled by large sails to explore a post-apocalypse world.