If you’re looking for a survival experience that feels like a grim, top-down love letter to Project Zomboid and DayZ, HumanitZ is likely already on your radar.
It’s a brutal, isometric open-world survival game where the “Zeeks” (the evolved remains of humanity) aren’t just mindless drones—they’re fast, aggressive, and very hungry.
Why It’s Worth Your Time
The World is Huge: We’re talking a massive, hand-crafted open world. You aren’t just looting the same three houses; you’re exploring dense urban ruins and overgrown wilderness.
Deep Crafting & Customisation: From rebuilding an old truck to turning a suburban house into a fortified death-trap, the progression feels earned.
Play Your Way: You can lean into the RPG elements by picking a profession (like a Farmer or Mechanic) that dictates your starting strengths.
Permadeath (Optional): If you want your heart rate at a steady 120 BPM, you can toggle permadeath. One wrong corner, one jammed gun, and it’s game over.
Pro-Tips for the New Survivor
Sound is Your Enemy: Running and gunning is a great way to get surrounded. Use bows or melee until you absolutely have to go loud.
Check the Tires: Finding a drivable vehicle is a game-changer, but keep an eye on fuel and parts. A breakdown in the middle of a city is a death sentence.
Winter is Coming: The weather system isn’t just for show. You need to prep for the seasons, or the cold will take you before the Zeeks do.
Bottom line: It’s challenging, atmospheric, and significantly more polished than many other titles in the “Early Access survival” bin. Whether you’re playing solo or in co-op, just remember: don’t get greedy.
If you’ve been looking for a cosy survival-crafting game with a breathtaking twist, you’ve likely heard of Aloft. Set in a world of floating islands, this game is all about exploration, building your own skyship, and healing a fungal corruption that threatens the airborne ecosystem.
Now, the skies have truly shifted with the arrival of the massive Bloom & Blight update! Dubbed the biggest overhaul yet for the Early Access title, this update doesn’t just add content—it fundamentally changes and improves the way you play.
A World Reborn: Progression and Exploration Overhauled
The core experience of Aloft has been streamlined and deepened, addressing player feedback and setting a solid foundation for the future.
A New Path to Power: Tech Trees! Gone is the somewhat directionless progression. Bloom & Blight introduces three distinct tech trees: Knowledge, Sailing, and Research. Finding Knowledge Stones and Lost Anchors now grants you points you can invest to unlock specific technologies that suit your playstyle. Want to focus on automation? Invest in Knowledge. Want a better ship? The Sailing tree is for you. This change makes progression feel far more rewarding and player-driven.
Sailing the Wind Tunnels: Exploration has literally picked up speed! The update introduces Wind Lanes, which act as high-speed shortcuts across the sky. By restoring key islands, you can unlock these lanes, making travel between distant islands a breeze—especially when piloting your own custom-built, flying island-ship!
The Heart of the Game: Reworked Restoration
The struggle against the pervasive fungi corruption, known as the “Blight,” is at the centre of Aloft, and this process has received a major facelift to be more engaging.
The Life Sapling Loop: Restoring corrupted islands is now a more interactive process centred around Life Sapling islands. You must complete specific tasks, often involving removing corruption cores scattered across the island, to heal the Sapling. Successfully restoring it not only brings life back to the floating landmass but also opens up those valuable Wind Lanes.
Colossal Life Trees: Healing three Life Saplings in a sector activates a powerful Life Tree. These colossal, restored ecosystems contain inner basins, providing new, resource-rich underground areas to explore—a fantastic reward for your restoration efforts!
New Threats, New Tools: Combat and Corruption
The corruption is fighting back with new strains that demand better gear and strategy.
Meet Sportox and Flogade: You’ll now face two new corruption strains: Sportox and Flogade. Sportox enemies release spores that can temporarily disable your glider (forcing a direct fight!), while Flogade leaves behind scorching ground effects you’ll need to avoid.
Stronger Gear: To take on these new threats, higher-tier tools and weapons have been added, including Windstone and Serrated Bone variants. The reworked combat system, which now focuses on destroying scattered “corruption cores” before taking on the main node, makes these battles more strategic than before.
Why You Should Dive Back In
Whether you’re a returning Early Access player or a newcomer, Bloom & Blight makes Aloft a vastly improved experience. The changes are foundational, transforming the game into a more cohesive, feature-rich, and genuinely compelling “cosy survival” title. The feeling of turning a scarred, corrupted island into your own flourishing, flying base is a unique delight, and now, that journey is clearer, faster, and more rewarding than ever before.
The skies are waiting, Captain! Are you ready to set sail and bring the bloom back to the blight?
Enter a strange and sometimes dangerous world in the CleanFall game, navigate through the tight tunnels and wide open spaces, avoiding the predators that have made this place their home. Seek out valuable resources that can be used to build new weapons and even new warships to defend yourself in this hostile environment. CleanFall is out now on Steam Early Access, while the full game will be launching on the 22nd of August.
To find out more about CleanFall, go to the official game website here https://www.humanyoyostudios.com/ or go to the games page on Steam here https://shorturl.at/3Cc2n
The quest to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where you have the security of a settlement to keep you safe, but is this what life has become or is there more, could there be a way to bring back the past or has that been lost forever? This is one of those game where all players will have a different experience depending on their decisions and actions. The City 20 game is available now for PC players through Early Access on Steam and from the Epic Games Store.
To find out more about the City 20 game here on the official website http://www.untoldgames.com/ or head on over to the games page on Steam here https://store.steampowered.com/app/1597980/City_20/
Well, it is time to return to The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria with the Golden Update, this is an exciting adventure for all fans of this game, movies and books, maybe there are even more players just waiting to join in on this fantastic adventure into a world that is beyond imagination. The Lord of the Rings Return to Moria The Golden Update will be launching on PC via Steam and on the Xbox Series X|S from Aug 27th, later on, it will launch on the Epic Games Store (EGS) on Oct 24th and for the PlayStation 5 on Dec 5th, are you ready for this?
Find out more about The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria The Golden Update here on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2933130/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Return_to_Moria/ or on the official game website here https://www.ReturnToMoria.com
At the PC Gaming Show games developer, Kitfox Games announced a new game they are calling The Streets of Fortuna where you can play as one of the many characters available such as; a thief, a blacksmith, a rebel, a priest, a smuggler, a lover, a cook, or even a street rat, but this life is tough and there is an Overlord ruling over the city, maybe you can get a team together and overthrow this tyrant and bring peace to the city, who knows?
Find out more about the Streets of Fortuna game here; https://bit.ly/3WQ6aqE
The much-awaited launch of the Foundry is almost upon us, well in May for anyone wanting to get it on Steam, but never the less this game is coming and it offers us the chance to automate everything and get your factory producing some cool stuff. Build anywhere and make sure that you are keeping a close eye on things because no matter how well you plan things there is always something waiting to go wrong.
Find out more about the Foundry game early access on Steam here; https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/foundry/news/dev-blog-50-early-access-release-date
Take a look at the gameplay for the My Time at Sandrock adventure that is coming soon to a PC and console of your choice. This is a game that will take you into a world of fun, weirdness and adventure, not necessarily in that order. One thing is for sure that for a while this game looks like fun, but it is also a game that will challenge you right to the very end.
This is one of those games that are sort of being dripped out before its launch, so first up there is the sandbox experience to get an idea of the game before it officially launches at the beginning of November. So, why not give this game a go, there is nothing to lose apart from being beaten in the gameplay.
Find out more about the My Time at Sandrock game here; https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/my-time-at-sandrock
The Foundry is open and as it is fully automated so all that is needed here is a little bit of maintenance now and then in order to keep the machine running smoothly. However, it is not as easy as it sounds, because mechanical things tend to break down and then everything is delayed, which is not what the Foundry has been designed for.
With the Foundry game you play on your own or with friends, you must plan the expansion of the self-sustaining plant where machines are building machines. If you are not sure about the game, no problem as you can try out the demo for free on Steam from October 9th to October 16th, get ready for the Foundry.
Find out more about the Foundry game here; https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/foundry/about
