Survival News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for February 23: Garena Free Fire MAX is an extremely popular battle royale game with millions of players around the world. In the game, players must take part in battle royale-style matches and survive till the end to become the winner. While this can be done solo, having a squad to back you up and give you an advantage. Although players can take the help of in-game items such as grenades, loot boxes and medkits, knowing the proper strategy is crucial if you wish to become

Developer Inflexion Games is currently working on an offline mode for Nightingale. Initially, this option was not a priority for the creators of Nightingale, but they changed their minds on the subject after many players expressed their preference to play offline.

Having already played a preview build of Pacific Drive, I felt confident going into my playthrough for this review. I’d learned a lot about this ornery but captivating driving/survival/roguelite game in those few hours — knowledge I thought I could apply from the get-go. I thought I could just start optimizing my resource collection and applying my understanding of some of its arcane systems. I envisioned a smooth run through the early missions as I explored the crumbling, glitching reality of the Olympic Exclusion Zone in the Pacific Northwest, and gradually reinforced my shabby station wagon against the wild hazards of this irradiated wilderness.

Back in November of 2023, developer Endnight Games announced that Sons of the Forest, its latest survival crafting game after The Forest, would finally release Version 1.0 on February 22, 2024 — oh hey, that’s today.

Games Operators and Jutsu Games have announced that their zombie apocalypse survival management game, Infection Free Zone, will enter early access on April 11, 2024.

Survival is the name of the game in Classic Hardcore realms, and while you don’t always have to go it alone, you might just want to. You can take the leap into a new adventure in Classic Hardcore with Self-Found mode on February 29 beginning at 3:00 p.m. PDT (22:00 GMT) around the world.

Palworld has been played by more than 25 million players since its launch, its studio Pocketpair says.

The Early Access release of open-world survival crafting game Palworld has sold approximately 15 million copies on Steam, and the Xbox Series and Xbox One versions have reached over 10 million players, developer Pocket Pair announced.

Myth of Empires, the multiplayer sandbox survival MMO taking place in a feudal world where the threat of war looms, has officially launched on PC via Steam. Explore the world, gather resources and supplies, and craft a society and an army to fit your playstyle. 

Publisher tinyBuild and developer DogHowl Games will host a closed beta test for multiplayer extraction horror first-person shooter Level Zero: Extraction, formerly Level Zero, for PC via Steam from March 15 to 18, the companies announced. Sign-ups are available now.

If you’re cutting down dozens of trees in Nightingale and are wondering whether or not they regrow, we have an answer for you.

During Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, we learned about two of the Xbox Game Studios titles that are going multiplatform. The games in question are Obsidian Entertainment’s Grounded and Pentiment, and the latter will launch tomorrow on Nintendo Switch.

After confirming that some of Microsoft’s console exclusives would be heading to new platforms, two of them have been confirmed for their Switch debut. Two Obsidian games, Grounded and Pentiment, are making their way to Nintendo Switch.

Obsidian Entertainment's former Xbox-exclusive titles Pentiment and Grounded are coming to Nintendo Switch.

Xbox Game Studios titles Pentiment and Grounded are coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Obsidian Entertainment's Grounded and Pentiment are the first Xbox-exclusive titles to launch on Nintendo Switch.

Pentiment and Grounded have both been confirmed for a Nintendo Switch launch.

Nightingale is one of the prettiest survival and crafting mash-ups we've ever seen, but its character creator has disappointed many fans. 

Xbox games Pentiment and Grounded are confirmed as coming to Nintendo Switch.

MY.GAMES, a prominent European video game developer and publisher, has unveiled an exciting update for its mobile RPG survival strategy title, Zero City. The latest patch introduces a significant addition to the game: the Colossi. These are a group of fighters that players can recruit to bolster their efforts against the relentless zombie horde.

This week in WoW, the Dragonflight Mythic Dungeon International continues on February 23rd and Classic Hardcore Self-Found goes live on February 29th!

Before Palworld combined the adorable monster-collecting appeal of Pokémon with survival and crafting gameplay, there was Temtem, the game that blended MMO mechanics with friendly monsters. Now, the folks behind Temtem are mashing up Tems with another style of game — the “bullet heaven” genre popularized by Vampire Survivors.

Italian developer Untold Games has announced City 20, a new systems-driven city simulator set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the city will adapt to your actions, good or bad, as you attempt to survive in what's left of the world. It's in development for PC, with an Early Access release scheduled for later this year. Take a look at the announcement trailer above and the first screenshots in the gallery below.

I don’t think Sigmund Freud was much of a gamer but if he were, Alisa would probably be his favourite game. Freud’s seminal discussion of the Uncanny remains one of the clearest accounts of what makes certain things incredibly creepy to us – and chief amongst his examples is the animated doll. Alisa takes this creepiness and puts it centre stage, taking an intricate love letter to the origins of survival horror and replacing the zombies with dolls. It makes for a timely and appropriate change of focus.

The new open world survival game set in the Terminator universe, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, and also GreedFall II: The Dying World will be three of the games publisher Nacon is set to reveal during its next Nacon Connect event. It'll take place on 29th February 2024 at 6pm GMT / 10am PT, with around 30 minutes of news and information prepared.

Sony has lined up another third-party PS5 console exclusive for 2024, and this time it comes from indie studio Far From Home. Forever Skies is a first-person, sci-fi survival game that's been in early access for nearly two years, but it'll fully launch later this year. When it does, it'll be a timed console exclusive on Sony's system.

Armor sets in Helldivers 2 will affect more than just some stats and numbers behind the scenes. Just like your primary weapon, the type of armor you pick will dictate your playstyle and needs to be heavily considered before each mission. Each one comes with a different rating in three stats, plus there’s a passive that makes it stand out, but all fall into either light, medium, or heavy roles. While the number of options isn’t terribly overwhelming, comparing and contrasting all those stats and abilities on top of things like Boosters and Stratagems can become tedious. If you just want to get out there and blast some bugs, here are the best armor types to pick in Helldivers 2.

Canadian developer Inflexion Games had previously announced its debut project, the survival crafting game Nightingale, would support both AMD FSR 3 and NVIDIA DLSS 3 when the game launches on early access.

Publisher Nacon is finally ready to show more of its open-world Terminator survival game during a showcase set for later in February.

The upcoming survival game Once Human has been making waves since the open beta basically broke down, thanks to too many testers jumping in at once.

Retro-inspired survival horror game Heartworm was scheduled to release this year, but after multiple obstacles were encountered during the development of the game, its release window has been pushed back once again. Now, the game is set to release in 2025, but no further details as to which quarter or month were provided. 

Another week of PC game releases is upon us and oh heck, slow down. There are an alarming number of games out this week that I want to play, from large-scale 3D productions to itty-bitty time-killers, each sinisterly appropriate to my Steam stats and wider research interests. Are videogame publishers and The Maw in cahoots to overwhelm me with impulse-buys and sabotage my attempts to Report the News? It’s possible. It’s possible. The Maw can be pretty cunning for an indiscriminate force of cosmic famine. The creature has been known to forge alliances with misguided mortals, seeking to flank and overwhelm harried news writers. How else to explain Phil Spencer’s T-shirts?

Helldivers 2 has proven a smash hit on both Steam and PlayStation, as players fend off hordes of bugs with guns, explosions, and the kitchen sink. You'll need all of that if you want to survive, as Helldivers 2 is proving to be quite a tricky game when it comes to difficulty. Most players are making through the game with relative ease, though there is one type of mission that is proving a little too chaotic for players to deal with.

Sometimes the excitement of unlocking a rocket launcher to use against droves of innocent creatures overwhelms us, leading to situations where an entire home gets accidentally, err, damaged. It's not just you, though! Palworld players can't stop blowing up their bases, accidentally or otherwise.

The next addition to has a chance to make use of a narrative direction which shied away from. The latest entry in the franchise has an impressive story told with a wide array of unique characters. However, also arguably wasted several opportunities, which its successor is now perfectly poised to incorporate into itself.

There are only three days left before the PC early access debut of Nightingale, the first game released by Canadian developer Inflexion Games.

We all know the feeling. Boot up a survival game, slip into an online server, and set yourself up with a little base so you can be ready to explore the vast and glorious digital landsc – Oh. You're dead. Oh, and now someone's teabagging your looted corpse. Cool. Just wonderful.

We've all dreamed of running away from the stresses of modern life and living in the forest, and this cozy campervan survival game lets you do exactly that. 

Alan Wake 2 received widespread critical acclaim when it was released in late November. Our own Francesco De Meo gave it a 9/10 and said:

Nightingale, the debut title of Canadian studio Inflexion Games, is scheduled to launch on PC early access via Steam and the Epic Games Store next Tuesday.

We’ve all wondered why no one gets in a car and drives away from the terror in scary movies and games. Pacific Drive by Ironwood Studios lets us live out that scenario. This upcoming first-person survival adventure drives a customizable station wagon into the genre.

Having spoken to Mass Effect veteran Aaryn Flynn, CEO of Inflexion Games - the developers working on upcoming survival crafting game Nightingale - it's clear he's aware of the stiff competition vying for our attention in the genre. When our game libraries are saturated with well-rounded titles like Valheim, Palworld, and Sons of the Forest, pulling in an extensive player base for Nightingale isn't going to be an easy task. But is all that competition so bad? 

Last year’s Alan Wake 2 was a triumph, not only in the survival horror genre but in AAA gaming in general. Given the high praise, it’s no wonder we declared it one of our favorite games of 2023. And for good reason, too.

Alan Wake 2 has sold 1.3 million copies since going on sale on October 27, 2023 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via the Epic Games Store, making it developer Remedy Entertainment's fastest-selling game ever.

Millie Bobby Brown switches demogorgons for dragons in the new Netflix fantasy movie Damsel, providing what the director has called a "fantastic" performance.

Total sales for Alan Wake II have surpassed 1.3 million units worldwide, developer Remedy Entertainment announced. It is the company’s fastest selling game to date.

I have spent the last few days delving into the darkness of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, and have only occasionally taken a break to come up for air. This is yet another take on the bullet-hell survival formula established by Vampire Survivors, using the sci-fi setting of the original Deep Rock Galactic. It’s a combination that works as well as chocolate and peanut butter. I’ve spent hours fleeing from bugs and mining valuable ore, and yet every time I step away, I find myself yearning for the mines.

Pacific Drive's developers, Ironwood Studios, have shared a developer diary that reveals that its artstyle is based on a "twisting of the familiar" and leaving a distinct impression with a surreal world that's not too far from our own.

Airship-themed first-person survival adventure game Forever Skies will launch for PlayStation 5 as a “console debut exclusive” alongside its PC (Steam) version in 2024, developer Far From Home announced.

A member of the Palworld development team has advised fans to try playing other games while they wait for content updates.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom fans are still delving deep into the game's engineering system, and this recent creation looks like both Hestu's worst nightmare and all my personal dreams come true - even if those dreams pertain to a different game.

A state-of-the-art airship hovers above a vast toxic dust cloud, shrouding an ecologically devastated Earth. That’s what most people notice when they see Forever Skies for the first time. And while this creates an interesting and unique premise to explore, it’s one that was inspired by rather somber real-world circumstances.

Marvel Studios has finally announced the cast of The Fantastic Four, after what feels like months of anticipation (and almost five years after the movie was announced in the first place). Unusually, the predictable and buttoned up production studio dropped the news on Wednesday with… an illustrated Valentine depicting Marvel’s first family relaxing at home.

Just seven months before Palworld took over the world by so many metrics, a member of the Pocketpair team reckoned 50,000 players would be the most the survival hit would ever achieve.

There are now fewer people playing Palworld than there were at the height of the game's popularity, and one of the devs behind the unlikely survival game hit says that's perfectly fine.

There are a lot of factors to consider when designing your perfect build in Helldivers 2. I don’t need to explain the importance of things like choosing the best weapon, but other parts of your loadout play just as big a role when your boots hit the ground.

Valentine’s Day is a time for togetherness, and that can be achieved in many ways — including picking up a controller and engaging in a great co-op game. We’ve curated a list of some of the best two-player co-op experiences currently available that you can easily enjoy with your Valentine — or your Palentine, for the platonically-minded among us. With a smorgasbord of recommendations across all kinds of genres, you should be able to find something to pick up and share with a special someone.

With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Balance Druid Writer, Tettles, offers a retrospective highlighting Balance's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.

Valve has revealed the 50 most-played demos from 2024's Steam Next Fest, and topping the list is the dungeon crawler RPG Dungeonborne, the self-styled "next-gen" RTS Stormgate, and my personal favorite, the moody survival driving sim set in the lush Pacific Northwest rainforest, Pacific Drive.

After a year in Steam Early Access, survival game follow-up Sons of the Forest is dropping its 1.0 update on Thursday, February 22.

Arrow star Stephen Amell is set to play lead character Ted Black in Suits: LA.

Presumably not ready to leave Attack on Titan behind after its anime finale, one Palworld player has recreated the series' iconic central city on a massive scale, purportedly without the use of any mods to make things easier. 

Sons of the Forest will leave Early Access and launch for PC via Steam on February 22, developer Endnight Games announced.

Each week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. Hearthstone looks ahead toward celebrating 10 Years in the Tavern and WoW Hardcore launches Self-Found Mode on February 29.

When Valve first announced The Steam Game Festival – the event which would eventually become Steam Next Fest – it was an answer to the damage wrought on exhibiting developers by the pandemic. Launched in June 2020, the Festival was billed to developers as "an opportunity to get early feedback from players and build an audience for future releases." That remains true today, even as Next Fest has grown into an industry-spanning event that Valve rolls out multiple times a year – but it's more true for some games than others.

A new trailer for Damsel has arrived – and it's pretty epic.

When I interviewed Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden developer Don't Nod, they told me NVIDIA DLSS 3 support on PC was a possibility. I assumed they meant for a post-launch update, but as it turned out, NVIDIA's Frame Generation technique is already in the game at launch. Indeed, I played the game with DLAA used in combination with Frame Generation and enjoyed great performance throughout the whole playthrough, as noted in my review of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden:

Another Steam Next Fest is over, meaning another collection of indie game demos have vanished into the ether. As ever, with so many options at your fingertips, it can be hard to know what to play, but now that the dust has settled, we've collated our Steam Next Fest coverage to point you towards the games we loved that deserve a spot on your wishlist.

One Palworld player has fully cranked up their ingenuity by creating a massive city, and they didn't even need to use a single mod to make a virtual urban base.

This week in WoW Love is in the Air, Classic Hardcore Self-Found Mode begins on February 29th, and Blizzard is celebrating Hearthstone's 10-year anniversary special matches and a free Fiery Hearthsteed mount on March 11th!

In today's This Week in WoW, Blizzard announced the launch of WoW Classic Hardcore's Self-Found Mode for February 29, 2024. This new game mode will restrict players from sending or receiving mail from other players, buying or selling on the Auction House, or trading in any way.

Season 5, Season of the Guardian, comes to New World on March 12. In the new season, Adventurers will survive the Winter Rune Forge and the updated Shattered Mountain main story quest, master Cooking Trade Skill changes, play with a controller, and even enjoy smoother combat in PvP.

The survival crafting game genre is in the middle of a renaissance. Players have been drawn to mainstays like Minecraft and Terreria for well over a decade at this point, but the last couple of months have seen plenty of new contenders enter the market. Lego Fortnite, Palworld, and Enshrouded all recently launched and became some of the biggest surprise hits in the industry in recent months. Now, Nightingale is launching and aims to ride this genre popularity wave to success.

Starnaut is a new roguelike bullet hell from a developer behind Devil May Cry and Okami - and it enters early access this week.

Former Mass Effect and Dragon Age director and BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn says he "wouldn't go back" to the RPG studio.

With only eight days left before the early access launch of Nightingale, their debut survival crafting game, Inflexion Games invited media to a remote presentation that served to recap what the game will be all about while also sharing some new details.

Video games are in on the streaming hysteria as well, with services like Xbox’s Game Pass offering up a very similar formula to that provided by Netflix and its many competitors. The video game subscription service provides users with a broad library of stellar titles, all of which are accessible for a low monthly cost. The service is changing the way games are played and is providing players with far more options for their next gaming sesh.

A dedicated Palworld fan has created an adorable clay model of the popular Ice and Dragon Pal known as Chillet. Since its arrival, the game released by Japanese indie developer Pocketpair has had huge success when it comes to overall sales and player count. So far, the game has already sold over 19 million copies across Xbox and PC, with the Xbox version being available through Game Pass.

Silent Hill: The Short Message have surpassed two million downloads, Konami announced.

We’re currently in the midst of the winter season, when the temperatures drop and the night grows darker and longer, clawing away more and more precious minutes of sunlight. It’s the perfect time of the year for True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the crime drama anthology starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. This season has already done a lot to differentiate itself from past storylines, with nods to the supernatural interspersed with prominent callbacks to the series’ first season.