Contest alert: Win a free copy of CardLife for Steam! Our world is made up of atoms and molecules and organic stuff and it's kind of stupid. Don't believe me? Take one look at a blobfish and tell me that's normal. It's not. But imagine if t...

We don't frequently highlight the game bundle service Humble Monthly, but on occasion the selections are too enticing to pass up. That's the case for November's bundle, which includes our metroidvania bestie Hollow Knight, the first season ...

The meticulous survival simulation game SCUM has a fresh update out this week, and at a glance, everything seems peachy. Performance optimizations are often a godsend for games just getting started on Steam Early Access. Caves are fun to ex...

Ready for some more free games? Today Breathedge is up for grabs -- don't miss out on this contest! I don't know of many games where an immortal chicken is used as a tool to break things, plug leaky pipes, and scan electronic equipment. In ...

Gamepires' intensely detail-oriented survival game SCUM has cleared one million sales after debuting on Steam Early Access last month. As previously reported, it's Devolver Digital's "biggest launch ever." The game's popularity checks out. ...

If you're in the mood to take a chance on a strange, uneasy, and uneven but ultimately memorable experience, heads up: there's a public alpha build for Pathologic 2. It's an open-ended survival adventure about doing what little you can duri...

We don't offer up a ton of Xbox One giveaways here at Destructoid, largely because the response is frankly not nearly what it is for other platforms. There are exceptions, sure, but the Xbox One crowd is a pretty silent minority here at Dto...

Survival games aren't usually my thing. They require a vast amount of dedication and engagement, with menial tasks that I'm not typically looking for when escaping to a digital world. SCUM, however, caught my eye with just how over the top ...

I love the forest. And the woods. In fact, I'm huge on going out to a very remote spot near where I live and plopping down in the middle of the wilderness, a good 30 minutes away (at least) from any type of reception on my cell phone. It's ...

Preview demos rarely coddle, but they're also almost always accessible. Like, the whole point is to get a good broad understanding for what a game hopes to accomplish. On a subconscious level, there's probably something to be said for makin...

You're no doubt familiar with my feelings on the deep sea. It's horrible and there's no air and there's lanternfish and why the hell would anyone in their right mind go there? I guess it's good that Sunless Sea exists because it accurately ...

Just last week, I was searching for an excuse to cover something, anything, about the upcoming Subnautica expansion. The survival game has been on my mind a lot lately, and while I'm too preoccupied with other stuff to want to replay it, I'...

It's you versus 99 other players. You're running out of air as the toxicity encloses around you. There's one spot on the extraction helicopter, and you'll do anything to secure it for yourself. And oh, the map is littered with mutants, wolv...

We got two great survival games this year with Subnautica and The Forest. One takes place underwater, the other in the wilderness, and both have creepy threats you'll need to muster up the courage to face. The Forest made it through Steam E...

Inspired no doubt by the reality show taking place in the prison which the world has become for most of us, developer Gampires and publisher Devolver Digital have joined forces to unleash the unhinged survival title SCUM, launching on Steam...

Anyone whose first planned foray into the Metro universe will be with next February's Exodus has an added incentive to purchase the game on Xbox One. There's a pre-order bonus that serves as a proper introduction to this series. ...

It seems like it has been ages since I first laid eyes on SCUM on Twitter. The developer was talking about how your momentum from running wouldn't stop just because you stopped, and that inertia would be taken into account. Previously, the ...

I can hardly call England a "dystopia," but it sure feels different to the country I've spent my whole life in. Don't get me wrong, most politicians have been charlatans and people have always been ignorant. But, in the last few years, a se...

The ocean survival game Raft is sitting atop my "I've been meaning to play that" list on Steam. As an Early Access title that's very much still coming along, it'll probably stay on that list for a while longer, but with each new update and ...

Unknown Worlds' Subnautica is a sublime exploration-focused survival experience. I think it's among the best in its class, and I'd recommend the game to just about anyone who isn't deathly afraid of the ocean. Subnautica's alien scenery is ...

I have it on good authority that some of you have been waiting for an excuse to hop on A Hat in Time. How's this? The 3D platformer is currently $12 via Humble Monthly and you'll also get instant access to The Escapists 2 and Conan Exiles f...

The frigid Darwin Project has some novel ideas for battle royale, but it's tough to make a name for yourself in such a fiercely competitive genre. Today's news should help. The survival-centric multiplayer game has gone free-to-play on Xbo...

We Happy Few is a self-described "game of paranoia and survival, in a drugged-out, dystopian English city in 1964." Back in May, the Australian Classification Board took a look at the title and refused classification, meaning We Happy Few w...

After wowing people with its reveal last year and losing some steam along the way, Compulsion Games is looking to rekindle interest in the tripped-out 1960s England survival adventure We Happy Few. The 1.0 release is set for August 10, 201...

11 bit studios performed its specific sort of magic when it released Frostpunk late last month. Frostpunk is a complex survival city builder where you try to keep a civilization from freezing to death. It has that 11 bit charm in ...