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Thick as Thieves Goes Live on Steam Today - Warren Spector and Paul Neurath's OtherSide Ships Its Co-op Stealth-Heist Debut for $4.99 With 16 Contracts, Two Maps, and Six Pieces of Gear, an Introductory Campaign Designed to Grow Over Time Rather Than Hold Back for a $70 Release Window
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Thick as Thieves Goes Live on Steam Today - Warren Spector and Paul Neurath's OtherSide Ships Its Co-op Stealth-Heist Debut for $4.99 With 16 Contracts, Two Maps, and Six Pieces of Gear, an Introductory Campaign Designed to Grow Over Time Rather Than Hold Back for a $70 Release Window

OtherSide Entertainment's long-gestating immersive-sim heist game arrives on Steam for $4.99 today, six months after the studio dropped its planned PvPvE direction for solo and two-player co-op infiltration runs through alternate-1910s Kilcairn. The launch package: 16 contracts, two replayable maps, six gear pieces, dynamic stealth in the Thief/Deus Ex tradition, and a deliberately small entry price that the studio plans to grow with future content drops rather than a single $70 box.

Subnautica 2 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the YearGame Pass
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Subnautica 2 Just Cleared 1 Million Copies in Its First Hour of Early Access With a 467,582 Concurrent Peak on Steam - Unknown Worlds Buries the Pre-Launch Drama and Lands a Top-Five Steam Launch of the Year

Subnautica 2 hit Early Access on May 14 and immediately set a 467,582 concurrent Steam peak with over a million copies sold in the first hour, burying nine months of pre-launch drama on the way to one of 2026's biggest game launches.

Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch
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Absolum's Long-Awaited Cross-Play Update Just Went Live Across PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC, Letting Co-Op Squads Finally Mix Platforms Seven Months After Launch

Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks have shipped the cross-play patch that's been the most-requested feature since Absolum launched in October 2025, finally letting all four console and PC versions of the rogue-lite beat 'em up share lobbies for two-player online co-op.

Subnautica 2 plunges into Early Access tomorrow with four-player co-op and a brand new alien ocean
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Subnautica 2 plunges into Early Access tomorrow with four-player co-op and a brand new alien ocean

Unknown Worlds confirms a single global unlock at 15:00 UTC on May 14, 2026 for Steam, Epic, Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass. The .99 Early Access build introduces drop-in co-op for up to four divers on a new planet.

Outbound Just Hit Game Pass Day One — Square Glade Games' Camper Van Cozy Open World Goes Live on PC and Xbox May 11, With PS5 and Switch a Three-Day Wait BehindGame Pass
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Outbound Just Hit Game Pass Day One — Square Glade Games' Camper Van Cozy Open World Goes Live on PC and Xbox May 11, With PS5 and Switch a Three-Day Wait Behind

A 14-person indie studio just shipped a sustainability-flavored road-trip RPG to Game Pass Ultimate. Build your own house on wheels, source power from sun, wind, or water, and bring three friends along — Subnautica 2's three-day head start was no accident.

Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test
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Horizon Hunters Gathering Resurfaces With a Closed Test #2 Teaser — Guerrilla's Co-Op Spin-Off Adds Two New Hunters, an Ashwater Valley Episode, Hard and Merciless Difficulty Tiers, and Solo Mode With NPC Allies for the May 22-25 PS5 and Steam Test

Sony and Guerrilla just unveiled Closed Test #2 for Horizon Hunters Gathering, running May 22-25 on PS5 and PC (Steam) with sign-ups via the PlayStation Beta Program. The test adds two new playable Hunters (Ensa, an Oseram smuggler; Shadow, a Carja covert operative with a tame Stalker machine), a new region called Breakers' Bounty, an Ashwater Valley narrative episode, two new difficulty tiers (Hard and Merciless), and NPC-assisted solo play — quietly killing the cancellation rumors that have been circling the project for months.

Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Is Real — Cold Iron and Daybreak Just Confirmed Four-Player Co-Op, a Specialist Class You Custom-Build From Every Other Class, and a Summer 2026 Drop on PS5, Xbox, and PC
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Is Real — Cold Iron and Daybreak Just Confirmed Four-Player Co-Op, a Specialist Class You Custom-Build From Every Other Class, and a Summer 2026 Drop on PS5, Xbox, and PC

Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak just announced Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 with an IGN-exclusive reveal trailer on May 7, confirming Summer 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC with full crossplay. The sequel jumps from three-player to four-player co-op, adds a customizable Specialist class that mixes major and minor abilities from every other class, and ships with dedicated Horde maps at launch.

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core Drills Into Early Access on May 20 — Five New Classes and a Full Roguelite Overhaul
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Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core Drills Into Early Access on May 20 — Five New Classes and a Full Roguelite Overhaul

Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into Early Access on May 20 with five new classes, procedurally generated caves, and terrifying new alien species — a full roguelite reinvention of the co-op mining franchise.

Subnautica 2 Hits Early Access on May 14 — Four-Player Co-Op Dives Into Steam's Most Wishlisted Game
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Subnautica 2 Hits Early Access on May 14 — Four-Player Co-Op Dives Into Steam's Most Wishlisted Game

Subnautica 2 enters Early Access on May 14 with four-player co-op, a brand-new alien ocean world, and a $29.99 price tag — after surviving one of gaming's messiest developer-publisher disputes.

This 8-Person Indie Studio Just Sold 250,000 Copies in 48 Hours — Far Far West Is the Co-Op Hit Nobody Predicted
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This 8-Person Indie Studio Just Sold 250,000 Copies in 48 Hours — Far Far West Is the Co-Op Hit Nobody Predicted

Eight-person French indie studio Evil Raptor has sold 250,000 copies of co-op cowboy shooter Far Far West in just 48 hours, climbing to No. 1 on Steam's top sellers and racking up an Overwhelmingly Positive review score. We break down the gameplay, the server hiccups, and the chances this hot streak holds.

Phasmophobia's Player Character Update Lands May 5 — 12 Customizable Investigators, an Alan Wake Crossover, and the Death Room Is Gone for Good
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Phasmophobia's Player Character Update Lands May 5 — 12 Customizable Investigators, an Alan Wake Crossover, and the Death Room Is Gone for Good

Kinetic Games confirms Phasmophobia's Player Character Update for May 5, 2026, adding 12 customizable investigators with no microtransactions, removing the death room, and ushering in an Alan Wake crossover starting May 12.

Don't Starve Elsewhere Revealed: Klei Returns to Survival Crafting With Magic, Jumping, and Co-op Layered Worlds
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Don't Starve Elsewhere Revealed: Klei Returns to Survival Crafting With Magic, Jumping, and Co-op Layered Worlds

Klei Entertainment has announced Don't Starve Elsewhere, the first new mainline Don't Starve game since 2016. Revealed at the Triple-i Initiative 2026 showcase, it adds magic, a jump button, and a multi-layered vertical world to the studio's signature dark survival formula.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Is the Retro Arcade Brawler You Didn't Know You Needed

Bitmap Bureau and Mattel team up for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction, a 2D arcade brawler launching April 28 with three playable heroes, 12 stages across Eternia, and two-player local co-op.