The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive.

The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body temperature, caloric intake, hunger, thirst and fatigue.

One Hour One Life is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away.

One Hour One Life is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away. Born as a baby into the care of anonymous other online players, you initially depend on them for food.

Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna.

Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna. It's handcrafted by a small team and creates a vibrant world to explore.

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.

Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources.

Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play.

Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god.

Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god. You play a lamb and start your own cult as you venture out into the world of woodland worshippers.

Darkwood is a survival horror role-play where you must scavenge the forest to fortify your cabin ready for the strange and disturbing attacks of each night.

Darkwood is a survival horror role-play where you must scavenge the forest to fortify your cabin ready for the strange and disturbing attacks of each night. You play by exploring the grotesque open world that changes each day then get back to hunker down in your hideout and pray for morning.

Trackline Express is a strategy game where you build and resource a train on an adventure through an unforgiving desert.

Trackline Express is a strategy game where you build and resource a train on an adventure through an unforgiving desert. Play involves running around to gather scarce materials to create the resources you need - coal, ore and wood for starters.

My Little Universe is a world-building adventure game where you are stranded on a barren moon with a set of tools.

My Little Universe is a world-building adventure game where you are stranded on a barren moon with a set of tools. You collect resources and build habitation to incrementally improve life on your lonely planet.

Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator.

Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines.

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. After twenty minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the secrets of who built the strange galaxy.

Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring back life to a barren world.

Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring back life to a barren world. It's a city-building game where you aren't building a city at all, but a clean thriving ecology.

Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day.

Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of attacking forces – there’s no access to any statistics so you must discover the best strategy by trial and error.

The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening.

The Garden Path is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening. You tend to a world and make it your own through fishing, growing, trading and making new friends.

The Tomorrow Children is an online strategy game where you collaborate with other players to build, explore and develop communities.

The Tomorrow Children is an online strategy game where you collaborate with other players to build, explore and develop communities. Unusually, it uses social economics and a Soviet Union-themed post-apocalyptic dystopia as the setting.

Wobbledogs is a pet simulation where your dogs not only need care but are rapidly mutating different behaviour and appetites.

Wobbledogs is a pet simulation where your dogs not only need care but are rapidly mutating different behaviour and appetites. You breed new dogs (from eggs), create and decorate a home for them, feed them and see how they evolve.

The Pale Beyond is a narrative simulation game where you captain an exploration ship stranded in the frozen Antarctic waters.

The Pale Beyond is a narrative simulation game where you captain an exploration ship stranded in the frozen Antarctic waters. You carefully manage and gather resources and keep your crew in good health to hopefully survive until the summer.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures.

Barotrauma is a cooperative space-submarine adventure set after humanity has fled to Jupiter's moon.

Barotrauma is a cooperative space-submarine adventure set after humanity has fled to Jupiter's moon. You work with other players to steer your submarine, work the ageing machinery, fight monsters and fix the endless leaks.

Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).

Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer). Factorio is a construction management simulation where you control your resources by clicking and dragging.

Welcome to Bloxburg is a simulation Roblox game where you take on daily activities in a fictional city.

Welcome to Bloxburg is a simulation Roblox game where you take on daily activities in a fictional city. Drawing on gameplay from The Sims, you care for your character and keep their mood positive, by building and customizing your house, learning skills and working for money.

BedWars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021).

BedWars is a game played on Minecraft (since 2017) or Roblox servers (since 2021). It's a team game where you start on an island and must protect your bed and build bridges to attack other teams' beds.

Ark: Survival Evolved is an adventure simulation game that offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting.

Ark: Survival Evolved is an adventure simulation game that offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive.

Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set in the wilderness.

Rust (also, Rust: Console Edition) is an online survival game set in the wilderness. You explore, gather and craft materials to manage hunger, thirst, health and protection.

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.

The Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash.

The Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.

Thousand Threads is an open-world game of consequences.

Thousand Threads is an open-world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, and betray.

Castaway Paradise places you on your own tropical island.

Castaway Paradise places you on your own tropical island. Make the place your own with decorations and furniture, dress up, collect bugs, fish, grow crops and help your new neighbours.

Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and must gather resources to thrive and reach other players.

Skyblock is a game played on Minecraft servers where you start on a bare island floating in the sky and must gather resources to thrive and reach other players. It's the Minecraft equivalent to being washed up on a desert island and is hugely popular.

Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden.

Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals. Play involves interacting with the Pinata themselves, but also creating the right environment to attract new creatures and helping them thrive.

Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game where one player takes on the role of a killer and another other four try and work together to survive.

Dead by Daylight is a survival horror game where one player takes on the role of a killer and another other four try and work together to survive. It's unusual because of this asynchronous play and its cross-over with different franchise-inspired themes.

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.

The Sims puts you in charge of a world of characters living normal lives.

The Sims puts you in charge of a world of characters living normal lives. By providing a home, a job, leisure, friendships and even a love interest, you work to make them happy.

Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control a group of castaways after a tsunami floods the world.

Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn sailing game, where you control a group of castaways after a tsunami floods the world. You navigate the ocean and build your raft with trash nearby which you can recycle into fuel, raft spare parts, and even weapons.

Green Hell is an intentionally hard open-world survival game.

Green Hell is an intentionally hard open-world survival game. You are abandoned in the Amazonian rain forest with no equipment or food, just your wits.

Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions.

Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions. Using resources like trees will erode the soil; mining might pollute the river; and each animal depends on another.

Wytchwood is an adventure in a land of gothic fables and fairytales.

Wytchwood is an adventure in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. You are an old witch of the woods and must explore the countryside, collect magical ingredients and brew enchantments.

Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child where you encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling.

Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child where you encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling. You travel the neighbourhood collecting items for your costume, candy and fellow children as companions in order to face the monster and rescue the sibling.

Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies.

Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons.

Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet.

Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies.

From Dust is a strategy game.

From Dust is a strategy game. You play as an all powerful God of a primitive people.

Learning Factory is a strategy game where you automate an old factory.

Learning Factory is a strategy game where you automate an old factory. Unusually, this isn't to make money and conquer the world but a round about approach to understand cats.

Distrust is a survival game where you try to survive after a helicopter crash at an arctic base.

Distrust is a survival game where you try to survive after a helicopter crash at an arctic base. Inspired by The Thing film, this is a horror game that initially seems to be about surviving the wild, but soon descends into something darker and adrenaline pumping.

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a survival climbing adventure, where you scale the peaks of the highest and most famous mountains in the world.

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a survival climbing adventure, where you scale the peaks of the highest and most famous mountains in the world. Plan the best route, select the correct equipment and avoid dangerous hazards as you ascend.

RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony.

RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony. You start the game with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant planet and begin to craft structures, weapons and clothes.

Project Zomboid is a zombie-infested open-world strategy game.

Project Zomboid is a zombie-infested open-world strategy game. It's a survival game that's designed to be really hard.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness.

Icarus First Cohort is an adventure survival game where up to eight players work together to endure the wilderness. Your task is to survive the brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt.

Sunless Sea is a sea-faring adventure where you pilot a small steamship to explore a Victorian-era London that has been moved beneath the earth's surface.

Sunless Sea is a sea-faring adventure where you pilot a small steamship to explore a Victorian-era London that has been moved beneath the earth's surface. You take on the role of captain but select different ambitions that determine how you will play.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world.

Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world. Unlike other games, Breakwaters isn't satisfied with day-night and weather cycles, it stands out for the fluid mechanics of its water.

I Am Alive is an action adventure in a post apocalyptic future where an event has reduced cities to rubble.

I Am Alive is an action adventure in a post apocalyptic future where an event has reduced cities to rubble. You traverse the country to find your wife and child.

A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure you play at a walking pace so you can take in the beauty of little things in the world.

A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure you play at a walking pace so you can take in the beauty of little things in the world. Your journey is to find the rainmaker to bring back the rain.

Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian.

Conan Exiles is an online survival game, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Similar to games like Ark or Green Hell, you start with nothing and must use resources you find in the open-world sandbox.

Dreamscaper is an adventure where you control a woman's subconscious whilst she dreams.

Dreamscaper is an adventure where you control a woman's subconscious whilst she dreams. In the dreams you battle enemies with different surrealist abilities and weapons: finger guns, move the earth, control time, warp landscapes, many melee weapons and more.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End.

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End. Rainfall has transformed all living things into monsters known as the Blighted.

Rogue Legacy is a dungeon-fighting game.

Rogue Legacy is a dungeon-fighting game. Each time you die you go back to the start.

Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies.

Gemini is a fighting game where you defend a Crystal from waves of enemies. It's super simple in both visuals and gameplay.

Oxygen Not Included is a creative strategy game where you build an underground colony for survivors of a spaceship crash-landing.

Oxygen Not Included is a creative strategy game where you build an underground colony for survivors of a spaceship crash-landing. You need to manage everything, placement and planning for oxygen distribution, energy, plumbing and living arrangements.

Wizard with a Gun is a survival game where you play a wizard in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries.

Wizard with a Gun is a survival game where you play a wizard in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Either alone or with other players online you embark on a journey to collect, craft and outfit your wizard to explore the unknown.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival adventure.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a survival adventure. But rather than controlling a specific character, you guide an entire lineage of primates trying to survive in prehistoric Africa and facilitate its evolution.

Ashwalkers is an adventure survival game where you play a small group facing the aftermath of an apocalyptic volcano.

Ashwalkers is an adventure survival game where you play a small group facing the aftermath of an apocalyptic volcano. You journey through a wild landscape, encountering dangers and strangers.

Death Trash is a role-play game set in a post-apocalyptic, horror open world.

Death Trash is a role-play game set in a post-apocalyptic, horror open world. Humans travelled to the stars, but unearthed machines and killer worms so had to flee into enclosed habitats.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet. From a first-person perspective, like Slime Rancher, you gather resources and build a working farm to harvest alien crops.

Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale is a strategy game where you are preparing food in a restaurant kitchen.

Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale is a strategy game where you are preparing food in a restaurant kitchen. Like Overcooked, you need to make the different dishes, wash up and serve customers.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a strategic simulation game where you combat enemy spaceships and survive the dangers of the galaxy. Unusually, you have complete control of every function of your ship and must manage systems, crew and scenarios.

The Day Before is a survival game set in a post-pandemic America where infected humans prowl the streets.

The Day Before is a survival game set in a post-pandemic America where infected humans prowl the streets. With hundreds of other online players, you form teams and vie for equipment as you fight off the infected and eke out a living in the harsh, ever-changing open world.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an online stealth action based on the film of the same name.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an online stealth action based on the film of the same name. In detailed arenas based on locations from the film, you play either the notorious Slaughter family hunting down victims, or an innocent trying to escape.

Zero Sievert is a retro shooting and survival game where you scavenge a wasteland to find gear and supplies to stay alive in a hard devastated world.

Zero Sievert is a retro shooting and survival game where you scavenge a wasteland to find gear and supplies to stay alive in a hard devastated world. You play by stealthily exploring buildings and forests to find and modify weapons.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a stealth strategy game set in a fantasy golden age of piracy.

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is a stealth strategy game set in a fantasy golden age of piracy. You play by controlling a crew of pirates with different abilities, on a ghost ship with a living soul.