Ever since Minecraft got us hooked on surviving its deadly nights and sinister, snickering foes over a decade ago, there have been wave upon wave of new survival games to scratch our deepest masochistic itches. Attempting to tackle them all at once, however, would probably lead to an early grave, so we’ve put together this list of the very best survival games on PC to help satisfy those cravings for Darwinian supremacy. Whether you love punching trees, surviving against the elements or sim...

There have been a great many games like Minecraft over the past decade. Which is to be expected, because who wouldn’t want to capitalise on the runaway mainstream success of the decade, and the best-selling video game of all time? There are many things that are very special about Minecraft, and remain more or less unmatched even ten years later; but we’ve done our very best to condense all that specialness down into a simple list of six criteria, and from there, we’ve compiled ...

Bug Fixes: Player will wait until after landing on a boat to sneeze. Fixed a graphic bug with fence gates when exiting interiors. Insulated sac, sea sack and gold rock gets a minimap icon. Pathfinding should now work better in interiors. Fixed bug where minimap sometimes didn't properly uncover traversed areas. Can pick up items on the ground near un-sprung tooth traps now. Fixed a spelling error on the Batilisk Wing?. Thumper’s minimap icon fixed. Dense turf will grow tall grass. Fixed crash at...

We've added a new Performance setting in Settings called Dynamic Asset Loading. It saves memory by loading certain data as needed, and unloading it when it’s not used for a while. Like most optimizations there’s a trade-off - while the dynamic loading decreases memory usage significantly it also means the game has to load assets in the background - depending on your hardware this may be noticeable. The game needs a restart for any change to the asset loading to take effect. Bug Fixes Added a “Dy...

Bug Fixes Pig town is more consistent now. Shouldn’t have missing pig palaces Fixed issue where the “Travel” option would not show on teleportato in adventure mode when playing with controller. The Camera will zoom back out after Wilba’s transformations. Fixed controller hint showing “MISSING NAME” when near a bramble site. Fixed examine string for cave entrance on ROC island. Only Wormwood will see the Plant action with seeds when using a controller. Partially constructed Robot can be teleporte...