Survival News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Over a week after Palworld's last big patch, developer Pocketpair has confirmed what the community already suspected: Pal damage got a big, big nerf. Luckily, that nerf was accidental and it's now been fixed with a new update.

Content Warning publisher Landfall Games has announced the viral Steam hit has sold an impressive one million copies even after its eye-catching free launch period.

The director of Nicolas Cage’s new survival horror movie Arcadian has shockingly revealed that the movie’s distinctive monster is actually inspired by a very well-known and beloved animated character… Disney’s Goofy. 

There is a new patch for Infection Free Zone on Steam. Steam is a hot spot for games within the survival genre and many of these games often have addictive gameplay loops that fans don't get tired of. Rust, Valheim, and Palworld are all examples of games that incorporate survival elements and have drawn in large numbers of players in recent years, and Infection Free Zone appears to be doing the same.

By now, you've probably heard the buzz surrounding Amazon's live-action Fallout show. And as it turns out, it is a faithful and fun adaptation of the hilariously grotesque post-apocalyptic role-playing game series. The live-action show offers a glimpse of the wild world of Fallout and all the bizarre hijinks just waiting to be uncovered, and it's likely got you wanting for some games to try out that have a similar conceit.

The Giant Evil Faces are here, and you’ve got to survive! This Roblox horror game pits you against a horde of floating monsters that all want to bite you. It’s a bit scary, but don’t despair! Our guide on how to play GEF Roblox gives you the lowdown on the basics so you won’t be left alone and confused in the doomed town.

The highly successful indie survival game V Rising is exiting early access on May 8, so Swedish developer Stunlock Studios has released new information on what players will find in version 1.0.

Pocketpair has teased plans to release a big Palworld update this summer, ahead of the game’s Arena mode later in the year.

Season of Discovery hotfixes have been released for April 11, including Darkmoon Card balancing, Class tweaks, and Dreamscythe & Weaver no longer evading if a player falls in the Pit of Sacrifice!

A new questline in 10.2.7 sees players help a night elf lay her family to rest. But when her sister turns out to be an enemy from our own past, it's up to us to decide what happens next.

The medieval survival strategy RPG Bellwright is heading into Steam Early Access later this month on 23rd April.

There’s a great deal of romance attached to leading a medieval revolution against an oppressive regime, thanks in no small part to the myths surrounding Robin Hood and his Merry Men. The reality would have been much colder, darker and damp, but Bellwright is a game that latches onto that idealised fantasy and runs with it, tasking you with liberating the lands and building an army strong enough to stand against the Crown.

The first time I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent, I had to put it down and walk away. I’m a big fan of horror games, and I don’t usually put them down unless they’re unplayable or just bad. The Dark Descent was different, though, a game that freaked me out so badly that I had to turn the lights on and just sit in that glow until I could catch my breath. My vision had become too dark; I was out of oil for my lantern; and there were cracking noises coming from somewhere off screen. I hadn’t been taken aback by a jump scare or a disturbing creature. I was just unnerved, tense, and extremely uncomfortable. So, you know, the best way to be scared.

“I’ve just taken a cyanide pill,” Siggi Wilzig (Michael Emerson) admits in episode 2 of Prime Video’s Fallout series. “Vault-Tec Plan D: It was the most humane product that Vault-Tec ever made.”

The challenging survival game Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition has seen a price cut from $4.99 to $0.99. So, if it’s been on your wishlist but you were holding it off, this might be the right time to check it out. Developed and published by Klei, the game first dropped on Android in October 2016.

Stunlock Studios have announced a collaboration with Konami to feature Castlevania content in its vampire survival ARPG, V Rising.

Ghouls have been part of the Fallout world since the first game in 1997. But despite being a series mainstay, we never learned how a ghoul goes from having all of their senses intact to turning completely feral.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for April 11: Battle Royale games like Free Fire are all about having smart gaming skills to spot and eliminate enemies. While the game is quite intense and thrilling, a player must stay vigilant about their surroundings and make their next move accordingly. Additionally, the next important thing in such games is survival. This will allow players to last longer in the game and it also may land you towards victory. Therefore, check out these tips and tricks to survive till the end of the game.

Pocketpair has announced the Palworld “Pal Arena” update. It will launch in 2024.

Survival simulation game sequel Endzone 2 will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam this summer, publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Gentlymad Studios announced.

Palworld has made its name by allowing players to do a lot of things Pokemon would never let you do, but there’s one core Pokemon features it doesn’t have – the ability to take on others in PvP battles. Well, it seems that’s going to change, as during today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, we got a first peek at the “Pal Arena” PvP mode, coming sometime in 2024.

Pocketpair has teased plans to release a new PvP mode for Palworld.

If you ever thought the likes of Pokemon Stadium needed more guns, then I have to say that's oddly specific, but the hit survival game Palword is serving up what you're looking for. 

A major Palworld update has introduced significant issues on Xbox consoles.

Loric Games has announced its debut title, Echoes of Elysium, an airship survival RPG “set in the heavens of mythical ancient Greece”.

Loric Games has announced Echoes of Elysium, an airship open-world survival RPG. It will be available for PC via

A new Palworld update has broken things so badly for Xbox Series X/S players that developer Pocketpair has recommended not loading multiplayer data whatsoever.

With Dragonflight Season 4 looming, now is a good time to pursue appearances that will be unobtainable for a while after Season 3 ends. With the launch of Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 3, Blizzard added three unique weapon appearances to former Legion dungeons. Chief among them is Lord Ravencrest's own weapon, Ravencrest's Wrath. While they won't be going away forever, likely returning when these dungeons return to the Mythic+ rotation, this could take years to happen. As they are unavailable on any other difficulty, and have not been added to the regular loot tables, these will be sunset when Season 3 ends.

Dragon's Dogma 2 has a hot new trend, and it involves tackling a Pawn off a cliff to avoid fall damage.

There's no denying Baldur's Gate 3's massive popularity, and its director of publishing, Michael Douse, has drawn comparison between it and the survival crafting game Palworld for finding success with a game that not all investors might have taken a chance on. 

A recent Palworld datamine suggests that a fire-based variant for Chillet might be added to the smash survival game, potentially turning one community fantasy into a reality.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to unveil new Gears of War and Call of Duty games at its traditional Xbox summer showcase.

Helldivers 2's friendly fire "will never change," meaning that blasts from fellow grunts and enemy bots will kill you just the same for as long as the galaxy is undemocratized, but an upcoming armor set should make accidental deaths much less common with a whopping 90% explosive damage resistance perk.

Frostpunk 2 is set to bring a frigid blast of survival-based city building in July, but if you want to get chilly in spring, you'll be able to play the game very soon thanks to a seven-day beta starting April 15.

PlayStation 2 is a console that everyone loved and many still do today since while the games are older, it has some of the best games on it from Sony. The console was first released back in Japan on March 4, 2000. Then it was soon released in America on October 26, 2000. This console was the sequel to the PlayStation console which was the very first one.

Players who've been eager to play but haven't felt like parting with their cash just yet are in luck because the game will soon be free to play. Launching in late 2023, the remastered version of the popular may not have established itself as a powerhouse in the genre like its older iteration, but the game still boasts a dedicated community. While the price for entry is still fairly steep, those who want to understand why the game is so beloved and hated in equal measure can now do so without spending a cent.

Relic Entertainment has announced redundancies following its sale from Sega last week.

Company of Heroes maker Relic Entertainment is cutting some jobs as the firm prepares to go independent.

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Doctor Doom and the Silver Surfer are two of the next characters getting drawn into Marvel's massive Blood Hunt summer crossover event in the advance solicitations and covers for Blood Hunters #3 and #4, the final two issues of the anthology limited series.

The patch notes for the latest Palworld update include a detail that might just be more exciting than any of the new content or improvements: the promise of a big ol' "content-packed update" landing this summer.

For those looking to master their Paragon journey in anticipation of Diablo 4’s Season 4, we’ve put together an in-depth guide that covers the Glyph Radius of every class Paragon board.

Palworld has received a new update which adds the game’s first Raid Boss.

Palworld's first Raid boss has just gone live, and players are warning others from initiating the fight too close to base, lest they be torn to shreds by Bellanoir.

Ubisoft+ Classics is a curated catalog of Ubisoft games for players to explore, inviting them on adventures to explore the ancient worlds of England, Greece, and Egypt; test their tactical prowess; race across the wilderness; and more. With a library of over 50 standard edition titles, Ubisoft+ Classics adds new content monthly. Subscribers can expect The Crew 2 and OddBallers in April, The Settlers: New Allies and Watch Dogs in May, and Anno 1800 in June.

Palworld’s latest update has added the game’s first raid boss, Bellanoir.

Vampire survival game V Rising has been kicking around in early access for a couple of years now, so there’s a good chance you may have already picked it up. If you haven’t but are curious to give it a go, you might want to grab it sooner than later. Ahead of the game’s full 1.0 launch, its price tag will be permanently raised to almost twice its previous cost.

Alex Garland has confirmed his plans to retire just two weeks before his latest pic Civil War is set to hit the big screen.

The Mystery of Eigengrau releases on Android! It’s a new mobile game that has been giving people the creeps on the Google Play Store. This game was made by a solo developer at Rigor Mortis Interactive. It’s known to be a realistic escape room experience full of fear and tension.

New World Season 5 –Season of the Guardian – has arrived. In the new season, survive the Winter Rune Forge, acquire new Artifacts, and experience the fully updated main story quest. You can also enjoy Mounts in Outpost Rush and journey through Aeternum with native controller support.

Minecraft is hardly realistic, with a world made up entirely of cubes. Even the mobs are made of blocks. But Warner Bros. and Mojang have teamed up to make a live-action movie, leading many to wonder what the hell it'll look like. Will Jack Black, AKA Steve, be a monstrous cube creature? Will it just be a bunch of dudes surviving in otherwise ordinary-looking woods?

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Indie publisher tinyBuildannounced a brand-new game called that mixes ducks, destruction, and survival. The game was announced on April 1, and despite its bizarre concept, is not an April Fool's joke. tinyBuild is best known for its niche games like , a horror puzzle game, and a management Sim. This will be the publisher's first foray into the survival genre, and is said to be a mix of popular survival games like and .

It’s the most annoying day of the yeeeeear – yes, in case you haven’t looked at the calendar and are wondering why everyone’s gone crazy, today is April Fools Day. While some gags are fun enough (CDPR’s floppy disc edition of Cyberpunk 2077 is cute) too many are just kind of lame, or worse, promise something kind of cool-sounding, with the punchline being… that it’s not happening. Ho ho!

Content Warning is a brand new co-op horror game where you "get famous or die trying," and it's 100% free for its first 24 hours.

Starry Studios and NetEase Games just dropped a new trailer for Once Human, their upcoming supernatural survival game. The game will soon be rolling out its closed beta test. If you haven’t heard about this game yet, let us give you a quick lowdown on Once Human CBT!

Little Land is a new survival game on Android that’s sure to test your survival instincts. It’s set in a microscopic world where you’re tinier than an ant. It lets you build structures, befriend bugs and defend yourselves against pesky enemies. Published by Puzala Games, it’s free to play.

ARK: Survival Ascended, the action-adventure game with added domesticated battle dinosaurs, first appeared in Early Access in October 2023, and has been introducing new and returning players to the remade world of ARK: Survival Evolved ever since. Building on the original's mix of action, crafting, and combat, ARK: Survival Ascended uses the power of Unreal Engine 5, the variety of modding and the utility of cross-platform play to offer an upgraded way to experience the open-world exploration experience.

Minecraft's annual April Fools gag is upon us once again, and this time it's a celebration of the game's most useless item that offers so many new features it might as well be a proper new update.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the most widely accepted authority on the English language, and is updated quarterly with revised meanings and new words as our language continues to evolve. Sometimes these words are entirely new creations, and sometimes they are words from other languages that have been adopted for common use in English. This past quarter, 23 new Japanese words were officially added to the OED, showing how much of an impact Japanese culture has even outside of Japan.

Publisher tinybuild has announced Duckside, a new persistent-world survival game for PC where you play as a duck. And no, this is not a joke despite it being April 1. Check out the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below.

tinyBuild has announced DUCKSIDE, an open-world survival crafting game for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

Dino Crisis died a grizzly death in 2003 with the action-packed Xbox-exclusive threequel. In the over 20 years since, fans have been calling for a return to the series and its more horror-oriented roots, and they were only spurred on further when Capcom remade several of its classic Resident Evils. Now, it's one of the company's most heavily requested games.

For a little while, it seemed like The Walking Dead was eager to use its popularity as a platform to create an entire universe of zombified television. First, there was the spinoff/prequel Fear the Walking Dead, followed by The Walking Dead: World Beyond and then the anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead. Each one intermingled with the original show, but for the most part, they were intent on telling their own stories. Fast-forward to 2024, and the former two series have ended, while Tales got an order for another season last year with no further news.

Fall damage is a beast in Dragon's Dogma 2 all of its own. There you are, minding your business on a slippery, slanted rooftop when, all of a sudden, you hurl off the side and land flat on your face as your pawns point and laugh at you like Nelson in The Simpsons. Luckily, there's a way to avoid leaving your entrails on the pavement.

Capcom has a treasure trove of dormant IP that its fans have been waiting to see get revived for years on end, and very few of them invoke the kind of fervour that Dino Crisis does. A revival of the dinosaur-fueled survival horror series is something that fans have been demanding vocally on a consistent basis, and we recently had another example of that.

A Palworld fan has created an adorable original Pal called Mushgloom, showing what it would be like if the game had one more Grass/Dark-type monster. Palworld was released in Early Access with more than 100 Pals divided into nine elements, each with a different design and origin. While Palworld players wait for new Pals, the community has been showing its ingenuity by creating original Pals.

The heroic fantasy adventures of rely on many rules and subsystems, but the game is also full of magical items, spells, and class features that let players ignore some of those rules entirely. Some rules that are a major concern in low-level games are easily trivialized at higher levels, effectively removing them from play. Ranged attacks normally have a Disadvantage if the attacker is engaged in melee, but the Crossbow Expert feat removes this penalty entirely. In the same way, this combat rule has an exception: magic can remove worries about encumbrance, tracking rations, and much more.

Exilesland is a new adventure RPG that has just dropped on Android. It’s a top-down crafting and survival game where you get to build a dreamy island. It’s been published by CSC Studio which is known for many cooking games like Cooking Love – Chef Restaurant and Cooking Travel – Food Truck and for other games like Kong Island: Farm & Survival and Makeover Studio – Merge Makeup.

Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion. Our Survival Hunter guide writer, DoolB, offers an early review of the Pack Leader Hunter Hero Talents that...

From deep within the Pit of Artificers one may uncover Stygian Stones, a truly cursed item which for the brave or foolhardy may either bring great rewards — or certain doom. Players seeking a challenge above all others can attempt to take on the Tormented Echoes of the Ladder Bosses such as Andariel, Duriel, Varshan, and more. These bosses are an extreme challenge and as such will be Level 200. The Pit of Artificers — New Endgame Content Coming to Season 4 Changes Coming to Forgotten Souls Drop Rate in Season 4

A Helldivers 2 player has somehow survived robot Vietnam to emerge alive after taking out a Hulk, a Rocket Destroyer, and two Automaton Factories. 

The new reboot of Alone in the Dark is here, but the game still has a lot of old-school survival horror flavor, which means a lot of puzzles, secrets, and other mysteries to unravel. But don’t worry, we here at Wccftech are here to guide you past the tricky bits.

The new reboot of Alone in the Dark is here, but the game still has a lot of old-school survival horror flavor, which means a lot of puzzles, secrets, and other mysteries to unravel. But don’t worry, we here at Wccftech are here to guide you past the tricky bits.

The beloved survival game Don’t Starveis being adapted into a board game. Glass Cannon Unplugged, a studio known for creating tabletop renditions of other series like Frostpunk and Diablo, will lead creation of Don’t Starve: The Board Game in partnership with the original video game developer, Klei Entertainment. The game is set to launch via a Kickstarter campaign “near the end of the 3rd quarter in 2024,” a release said.

Glass Cannon Unplugged have just launched their Kickstarter campaign funding Don’t Starve: The Board Game.   We've seen plenty of the best board games come out in the past few years but Kickstarter-funded tabletop adaptations of video games are really having a moment right now. It was just last month that Glass Cannon Unplugged announced they were working on Dying Light: The Board Game, adding that to their expansive portfolio of board games like This War of Mine: The Board Game and Apex Legends: The Board Game (which we were very fond of when we previewed it). Gameplay wise, Don't Starve: The Board Game promises to be chock-full of "mechanics highlighting player choice, dynamic combat, and open-world exploration in night and day conditions". From the looks of the game’s box art and promotional materials, it also keeps that charming Tim Burton-esque art style that players have come to know and love. Turns out that expansions and add-ons are already on the cards too.

During the Game Developers Conference 2024 in San Francisco, Funcom provided the first detailed Dune Awakening presentation to the press. For the full details of what was discussed in the open world survival MMO's overview, head to our previous article.

Bethesda has teamed up with Insight Editions to release a hardcover Elder Scrolls Online survival guide packed with tips and tricks for survival across Tamriel and the real world.

Vampire survival game V Rising is getting an official Castlevania collaboration, introducing vampire hunter Simon Belmont and a range of series-inspired cosmetics, in May.

Hellgate: London was a game ahead of its time in a lot of ways, introducing open-world looter and roguelike mechanics before those things became a hot trend. As such, the game is still remembered fairly well despite not being a huge seller at the time. Well, it seems the series may be coming back, because the original game’s producer Bill Roper has announced an Unreal Engine 5 sequel, Hellgate: Redemption, will be produced through his new studio Lunacy Games. Roper had the following to say about the revival…