Palworld is a role-play game where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world.

Palworld is a role-play game where you befriend and collect creatures in a vast open world. It takes the Pokemon formula in an open-world survival (and gun-touting) direction.

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.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness. You work with other players to make your way in the living breathing world full of hazards and opportunities.

Pikmin is a real-time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin.

Pikmin is a real-time strategy game where the main character Captain Olimar crash lands on an alien planet filled with strange small creatures called Pikmin. You are able to control and use these creatures to knock down walls, build bridges and attack creatures, you grow Pikmin by taking flora to a device called an onion which then spawns more Pikmin for you to control.

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.

Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes.

Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat.

Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object.

Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become.

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.

Don't Starve is an open-world survival game where it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you have to work with.

Don't Starve is an open-world survival game where it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you have to work with. You need to find and develop food, weapons and shelter to survive.

Fe is a platform-traversal game where you play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest.

Fe is a platform-traversal game where you play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest. The world extends in front of you in stylised form, with trees, mountains and streams glistening with sparkles of life.

Spyder is a puzzle adventure where you play as Agent 8, a small 6-legged spider-robot that was designed by a British spy agency for attempting to stop an evil organization.

Spyder is a puzzle adventure where you play as Agent 8, a small 6-legged spider-robot that was designed by a British spy agency for attempting to stop an evil organization. You explore the world and can use your sticky legs to walk over any surface or use your grapple to swing around and solve puzzles.

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.

Biomutant is an open-world role-play adventure about a Raccoon warrior in a large world filled with mutated animals.

Biomutant is an open-world role-play adventure about a Raccoon warrior in a large world filled with mutated animals. Exploring this living breathing ecosystem has the feel of a Zelda game, but in a broken-down steampunk aesthetic and with political implications for your actions.

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.

PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved.

PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and construction.

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.

Bee Simulator is a strategy game you play as a honey bee, flying on expeditions from the beehive to collect pollen, fight wasps and perform missions ordered by the Queen, as well as participating in races and dancing rituals.

Bee Simulator is a strategy game you play as a honey bee, flying on expeditions from the beehive to collect pollen, fight wasps and perform missions ordered by the Queen, as well as participating in races and dancing rituals. Along the way, you'll learn facts about a bee's life.

Dauntless is an action-fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world.

Dauntless is an action-fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world. Cataclysmic events have released Behemoth creatures that prey on the surviving humans.

Metamorphosis is a surrealist adventure game about a man turned into a small insect.

Metamorphosis is a surrealist adventure game about a man turned into a small insect. It's inspired by Franz Kafka's books.

Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure.

Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure. It is the sequel to 2015's Grow Home and extends the real physics exploration that lets you push, pull, climb and direct how plants grow in the world.

Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities.

Transformers: Battlegrounds is a strategy game that's accessible for a range of abilities. It offers a robot-themed XCOM-style game for younger players.

The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu.

The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu. It's unusual because as well as building a thriving settlement, you have to also take care of the creature on whom you are building.

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.

Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain.

Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world.

Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village.

Everdale is an online strategy game where you build a village. With the help of friends you develop a society that survives on the basis of savvy cooperation.

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.

Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on.

Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on. It's formatted like a 'Roguelike' game: an iterative game that requires multiple goes to complete a level and where your progress is reset if you die.

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.

Stonefly is a tranquil adventure game where you play the pilot of an insect-like mechanical craft.

Stonefly is a tranquil adventure game where you play the pilot of an insect-like mechanical craft. Tiny and living in an outsized world, you use your vehicle to harness the wind and explore the wilderness.

Rooted is an open-world survival game where you eke out an existence in a post-apocalyptic America where nature has retaken the cities and villages.

Rooted is an open-world survival game where you eke out an existence in a post-apocalyptic America where nature has retaken the cities and villages. You construct a base, scavenge for resources, and infiltrate the territories of rival survivors and groups.

The Outer Worlds is a futuristic role-playing game where you are a colonist working to thaw your team and colonise the planet.

The Outer Worlds is a futuristic role-playing game where you are a colonist working to thaw your team and colonise the planet. Exploring, talking, shooting; how you do this is up to you, in what soon becomes a tangle plot of corporate control and individual freedom.

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.

Hive Time is a strategy game where you build a beehive and make honey.

Hive Time is a strategy game where you build a beehive and make honey. You command your bees to harvest resources, grow your hive, and produce a new Queen before the current one dies.

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.

SCP 3008 is an adventure game where you must survive as many nights as possible in a huge Ikea store with demented employees.

SCP 3008 is an adventure game where you must survive as many nights as possible in a huge Ikea store with demented employees. You play by building a base from furniture, collecting food and trying to hide from the employees who hunt you down.

Blackbird is a strategy game where you are a blackbird collecting food for your young.

Blackbird is a strategy game where you are a blackbird collecting food for your young. You need to scour the forest to find enough insects to keep them alive and them fly the nest (or die trying).

I Am Caterpillar is a traversal adventure game where you are a caterpillar who doesn't want to be a butterfly.

I Am Caterpillar is a traversal adventure game where you are a caterpillar who doesn't want to be a butterfly. You crawl up trees, leap between lily pads and wriggle through dank underground places as you resist your destiny.

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.

V Rising is an survival adventure game about vampires.

V Rising is an survival adventure game about vampires. You wake as a weak vampire and must hunt for blood whilst evading the sun to slowly rebuild your castle.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth strategy game set in Japan, where a new Shogun employs five recruits to use assassination, sabotage and espionage to enforce peace in the country.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth strategy game set in Japan, where a new Shogun employs five recruits to use assassination, sabotage and espionage to enforce peace in the country. Play involves commanding a team of specialists to sneak in amongst enemies to complete missions.

Tiny Quest is a running, jumping and carrying puzzle game where you help Anton become king.

Tiny Quest is a running, jumping and carrying puzzle game where you help Anton become king. The game is played on a single screen, but the world and your character are tiny.

Voidtrain is a shooting strategy game where you build a futuristic train to explore a post-apocalyptic Void with floating islands and aliens all about you.

Voidtrain is a shooting strategy game where you build a futuristic train to explore a post-apocalyptic Void with floating islands and aliens all about you. You gather resources to strategically build new carriages that help you fend off soldiers and bizarre creatures that attack you.

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.