Survival shooter Road to Vostok ‘secured the entire production budget for this game for years and years to come’ within 24 hours of its Steam early access launch

Road to Vostok, the hardcore survival shooter developed by Finnish former army officer Antti Leinonen, has built up a lot of hype since Leinonen released its first demo in 2022, thanks in no small part to how terrifying it is to be shot at by its bandits while you’re scavenging for soup cans. That hype,…

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Gunzilla CEO denies delaying payments to ‘full-time official employees,’ says contractors complaining about going months without being paid are just ‘haters’ who don’t know what it takes to run a business

XGunzilla Games, the developer of the NFT battle royale Off the Grid and, more recently, resurrector of Game Informer, is facing multiple allegations that it has failed to pay some of its staff, in some cases for months. Gunzilla CEO Vlad Korolev acknowledged the claims in a message posted to X, writing, “to not disrupt…

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Over the Hill devs are celebrating reaching 1 million Steam wishlists by giving you a chance to play the Mudrunner-like off-roader early

Art of Rally is a remarkably good little racer, seeing you bomb down trails from an isometric view. It’s hard but incredibly stylish and satisfying to master. So I was very excited to see developer Funselektor (in collaboration with Strelka Games) give off-road exploration a spin with Over the Hill. From the trailers, it looks…

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Hope you’re hungry ’cause Don’t Starve is back with a new co-op survival crafting adventure for Wilson and the gang

Forget not starving alone or Together, during the 2026 Triple-i Initiative Showcase, Klei revealed it’s iterating on its gothy, sketchbook-style survival crafting series again with Don’t Starve Elsewhere. If this latest naming scheme has you worried, don’t overthink it. Don’t Starve Elsewhere retains the multiplayer survival we all came to love in Don’t Starve Together,…

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One of Steam’s most successful Pokémon-likes is doing a Palworld

Pokémon-inspired creature collectors are an ouroboros, and it’s just taken another bite of its own tail. During today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, Crema Games—developers of Temtem, one of the more successful Pokémon-likes on Steam—revealed Temtem: Pioneers, “an ambitious open-world survival crafting adventure” where players can collect, battle, and build alongside a team of tameable creatures. It’s…

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