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A survival sandbox where you kill the forsaken bosses biome by biome. Eight tiers, one clean progression spine, and a brutal sea crossing or two.

PC (Steam), Xbox. PS5 and Switch 2 with 1.0.

An open-world survival and tribe sim where an ancient mask is your progression, your power, and your way to possess and play as the tribesmen you recruit. No boss ladder, a metal-age tech spine instead.

PC (Steam). Shifting Sands DLC. Consoles TBD.

A first-person factory-automation game where you place miners, belts, and machines to build an ever-growing production line on an alien planet. The pressure is engineering, not survival, and there is no boss ladder.

PC (Steam, Epic), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X.

A construction and automation game where you crash-land on an alien planet and build a factory that mines, smelts, and manufactures at ever-larger scale. No bosses, just the science pack tech ladder you climb by feeding colored packs into labs.

PC (Steam). Nintendo Switch (base game) and Switch 2 (with Space Age). Space Age expansion requires the base game.

A first-person survival and village-management life sim set in an early-medieval valley. Build a one-house homestead into a thriving settlement across seasons and generations, with no bosses and no raids.

PC (Steam, Epic, GOG, Microsoft Store). PlayStation and Xbox current-gen. Crossplay supported.

A base-building survival ARPG where you pilot the Mr. Riggs mech, build power grids and production chains, and defend them against tower-defense waves of aliens. The spine is a resource-gated research tree, not a boss ladder.

PC (Steam, app id 780310). PlayStation 5. Xbox Series X/S. Xbox Game Pass. Co-op (2.0) is PC only.